On a day which should have been jubilant for Pierre Gasly turned into one of misery, as the Frenchman faced an embarrassing exit from Q1 at the Japanese Grand Prix. Fresh off being announced as an Alpine driver for 2023 on a multi-year deal, Gasly would’ve most likely been hoping to put in a stellar
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Twitter can be a strange but wonderful place sometimes, especially when it comes to the F1 community, with Pierre Gasly being announced as an Alpine driver being no exception. Whilst it has been reported countless times over recent weeks that Gasly was set to take Fernando Alonso’s place at Alpine, people were beginning to wonder
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Despite having failed to win his second World Championship at the recent Singapore Grand Prix, Max Verstappen will have his second chance to become a double World Champion this weekend at the Japanese Grand Prix. To retain his 2021 title, Verstappen needs to outscore Charles Leclerc by six points and team-mate Sergio Pérez by eight,
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Fernando Alonso bounced back from his Singapore Grand Prix agony in the best way possible on the opening day of the treacherously wet Japanese Grand Prix, by ending FP1 in first. Singapore was a weekend to forget for Alpine in general, as both Alonso and Esteban Ocon retired following apparent engine failures, something the Spaniard
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Alpine’s Fernando Alonso trusts that the FIA will deal with any breaches of the financial regulations appropriately. A $145 million budget cap was brought in last season to manage the team’s spending on development. It was intended to stop the big teams from having a significant advantage over the smaller teams, who do not have
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It’s safe to say that reports suggesting that Pierre Gasly is set to be announced as an Alpine F1 Team driver are more likely to be true than not, after it was discovered that the Frenchman liked a hilarious meme on Instagram, which appears to be a dig at Red Bull. It has been reported
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Last weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix was nothing short of a disaster for Alpine, as both Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon were forced to retire with a power unit failure. Ocon’s failure was much more dramatic than his double World Champion team-mate, with his A522 releasing the usual giant cloud of smoke, signalling a power unit failure. Not only does the
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AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly has quipped that he will take team-mate, Yuki Tsunoda, with him if he joins Alpine next season. Tsunoda was recently signed to a new contract with the Red Bull junior ide that keeps him there until at least the end of next year. That placed him at the Faenza-based squad alongside Gasly
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The Singapore Grand Prix was the Alpine F1 Team’s first double-retirement of the season, after Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon both suffered from what looks set to be a “similar” power unit failure. Whilst the race was already looking fairly miserable for Ocon after qualifying P18, Alonso had been having a brilliant weekend up to the
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Nyck de Vries is on the verge of being announced as an AlphaTauri driver for the 2023 season, according to reports. Dutch journalist, Erik van Haren, has reported that the 27-year-old’s contract has been drawn up, and the only thing left to do now is wait for Pierre Gasly to be announced as an Alpine
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