The last summer Alpine he was left without the two pilots who could have continued in the team today. Fernando Alonso preferred the Aston Martin project and the young Oscar Piastri, McLaren’s. The French “played” with both pilots… and were left with none.
Was Pierre Gasley the one who became a partner Esteban Ocon despite the tension that exists between the two since they competed in karts. And the first one was the only one to score in the Bahrain Grand Prix. Ocon lived a real nightmare.
And in Alpine they have celebrated the arrival of Gasly… giving Piastri a stick. “We have learned a lot from what happened. It is very difficult to combine loyalty with individual interestsespecially with the pilots who are too young”, has expressed Laurent Rossi.
“We saw the pros and cons and learned that we weren’t prepared enough in some areas with the Academy driver contracts,” he said on the official F1 podcast.
He states that they are “better off” with Gasly: ”This whole thing is over and we’re better off with Pierre now, so I don’t know why I would want anything more. We have learned our lesson.”
“The rest belongs to a single person, we wish you the best and. If an opportunity arises to re-sign Oscar in the future you can never say no, but we’ll see if we get there at some point.”
