Just two points away from being suspended. The situation of Pierre Gasley, now an AlphaTauri pilot and starting next year in Alpine, it seems complicated. The penalty for the super license is too close. Very dangerous considering that you could lose some races already driving the car of the French team.
This so-called points card is not renewed when a driver changes teams, so in 2023 Alpine could be forced to use its reserve driver if Gasly is finally sanctioned. The reserve is the young Jack Doohan.
otmar szafnauer, head of the Alpine team, referred to it during the Brazilian Grand Prix. He hopes that these FIA rules will change so that Gasly can complete all the races with the French team, where he will take the seat of Fernando Alonso.
“It’s unfortunate that he’s on the verge of suspension, but I don’t think at the time the rule was approved it was thought that it could harm another team. But things are like that, unless you we can change them“Szafnauer said.
And he disagreed with the rules: “Who do you really punish? The driver or the team? I think we should work to make things more equitable.”
Notice in the sprint
The sanction was very close. Gasly received a warning from the FIA during the Brazilian sprint. Had he been penalized, he would not have been able to race in Abu Dhabi in his last race with AlphaTauri. Perhaps that would be in Alpine’s best interests, even if they don’t say so publicly.
It was not the best weekend for the Frenchman, again far from the points. He finished fourteenth behind a Mick Schumacher sentenced by Haas. also behind Zhou, Sebastian Vettel and Lance Strolltenth.
