Pierre Gasly · Biography

Pierre Gasly won his first major title in 2013, when he took the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 championship with Tech 1 Racing, scoring 195 points and three victories. He was born on 7 February 1996 in Rouen, Normandy. He went on to win the GP2 Series in 2016 and made his Formula 1 debut with Toro Rosso in 2017. With AlphaTauri, he won the 2020 Italian Grand Prix at Monza. He has raced for Alpine since 2023.

Karting and early single-seaters

Gasly started competitive karting in 2006, at the age of ten. In 2010 he finished runner-up in the CIK-FIA European Championship in the KF3 class, and the following year he moved into cars. In 2011 he finished third in French F4 with 104 points, winning at Spa, Albi and Le Castellet. The Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 crown with Tech 1 Racing followed in 2013. That title brought him into the orbit of Red Bull’s young driver programme, which shaped the next stage of his career.

Formula Renault 3.5, GP2 and Japan

In 2014 he raced in Formula Renault 3.5 with Arden Motorsport and finished second in the standings with 192 points. He moved up to GP2 with DAMS in 2015 and placed eighth on 110 points without a win. The following year he joined Prema, alongside Antonio Giovinazzi. He won four races and the 2016 GP2 title with 219 points, with Giovinazzi second. There was no Formula 1 seat for him in 2017, so he spent that season in Japan’s Super Formula with Team Mugen. He won two races and finished second on 33 points, half a point short of the champion.

Toro Rosso and Red Bull

Gasly made his Formula 1 debut at the 2017 Malaysian Grand Prix, taking over Daniil Kvyat’s Toro Rosso. In 2018, his first full season and the team’s first year with Honda engines, he finished fourth at the Bahrain Grand Prix to score his first points. He ended the championship 15th with 29 points. For 2019, Red Bull Racing promoted him to partner Max Verstappen. Before that year’s Belgian Grand Prix, though, the team sent him back to Toro Rosso and gave his seat to Alexander Albon. At the Brazilian Grand Prix that November he finished second for his first podium, and he closed the season seventh with 95 points.

Victory at Monza

Toro Rosso became AlphaTauri in 2020. On 6 September that year, Gasly won the Italian Grand Prix. A red flag and a penalty for race leader Lewis Hamilton, who finished seventh, shaped the race. In the closing laps Gasly held off Carlos Sainz’s McLaren and took the flag by 0.415 seconds. Lance Stroll was third. It was the first win by a French driver since Olivier Panis at Monaco in 1996, and the team’s first under the AlphaTauri name. He finished the 2020 championship tenth with 75 points. In 2021 he took third place at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix and ended the year ninth with 110 points. In 2022, his last season with the Faenza team, he was 14th with 23 points.

Alpine

Gasly joined Alpine in 2023 and partnered Esteban Ocon there for two seasons. At that year’s Dutch Grand Prix he crossed the line fourth and moved up to third when Sergio Pérez was penalised. It was his first podium with the French team, and he finished the season 11th with 62 points. In 2024 he was third in a rain-hit São Paulo Grand Prix, the fifth podium of his career, and ended the year tenth with 42 points. In 2025 he finished 18th with 22 points, every point Alpine scored that season.

First pole position

On 5 September 2026 at Monza, Gasly took the first pole position of his Formula 1 career with a lap of 1:21.786. That was 0.060 seconds quicker than George Russell, with Oscar Piastri third. It was the Enstone team’s first pole since Fernando Alonso at the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, and the first by a French driver since Jean Alesi at the 1997 Italian Grand Prix.