AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly would love to consistently break into the top five this upcoming season, but concedes that an excellent car will be necessary from his team. The Frenchman scored point on 15 occasions last season, and comprehensively out-qualified rookie team-mate Yuki Tsunoda en route to a ninth-placed Drivers’ Championship finish. He has thrived at
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Dutch racing driver Tom Coronel and RacingNews365.com founder Ruud Dimmers are both of the opinion that Sergio Perez did not perform to a sufficient standard during his first season with Red Bull last year, and that Pierre Gasly has earned another go in the seat. Gasly was promoted from Toro Rosso – now AlphaTauri –
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Former Red Bull driver Alex Albon has gone into detail on his relationship with former team-mate Max Verstappen, affirming that he is a very ordinary person off the racetrack. Albon signed with the Milton Keynes squad midway through the 2019 season to replace Pierre Gasly, who was dropped back to Toro Rosso – now AlphaTauri
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Red Bull have said that they feel Pierre Gasly is “ready” to return to the senior team, after a very impressive two-and-a-half years with Scuderia AlphaTauri. The Frenchman was signed by Red Bull’s main outfit ahead of the 2019 season from Scuderia Toro Rosso (as their sister team was then called), but his career at
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Sergio Perez has opened up on the difficulties of taming the Red Bull car in 2021, and said he looks forward to stepping up his development this year. Perez joined the Milton Keynes-based team from Racing Point ahead of last season to replace the departing Alex Albon, whose two podiums were not enough to mitigate
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Former Formula 1 driver Perry McCarthy has compared being placed into the same team as Max Verstappen as a “graveyard sentence,” given the way the Dutchman ruthlessly out-performs his team-mates. Verstappen has out-qualified a number of partners 90 times in 118 races since his arrival into the Red Bull team in 2016, and a failure
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Red Bull junior driver Juri Vips has suggested that Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko is a lot more “straightforward” with his drivers than many believe. Dr Marko has a history of making harsh and cut-throat decisions with his Red Bull talent, particularly in the last six years. Daniil Kvyat was ousted from the team
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AlphaTauri and Alpine have both announced the dates on which they will reveal their respective cars for the 2022 season. AlphaTauri have sandwiched themselves in between McLaren and Mercedes, with them set to unveil their challenger on 14 February as they embark on their first season using Red Bull powertrains. Honda pulled out of Formula
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AlphaTauri team principal Franz Tost is uneasy with a Haas-style approach of running two young drivers in the team. The American outfit signed F1 rookies Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin ahead of 2021, replacing experienced drivers Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen, who had managed just two points finishes between them in an immensely disappointing 2020.
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AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly says he deserves another shot at driving for Red Bull, and is disappointed they opted to extend Sergio Perez’s deal instead of bringing him back into the main fold. An impressive 2018 season at the then-named Toro Rosso earned the Frenchman an opportunity at the Red Bull team in 2019 alongside Max
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