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AlpinePierre Gasly is a French Formula One driver racing for BWT Alpine F1 Team. He has over 175 F1 race starts, one Grand Prix victory, and five podiums. His only win came at the 2020 Italian Grand Prix with AlphaTauri, making him the first French driver to win an F1 race since Olivier Panis at Monaco in 1996, a gap of 24 years.
His career is defined by sharp contrasts: a mid-season demotion from Red Bull in 2019, followed by one of the most celebrated comeback victories in recent F1 history just over a year later. He is now in his fourth season at Alpine, contracted until at least the end of 2028.
| Full name | Pierre Jean-Jacques Gasly |
| Date of birth | 7 February 1996 |
| Birthplace | Rouen, Normandy, France |
| Height | 177cm |
| Nationality | French |
| Current team | BWT Alpine F1 Team |
| Car number | #10 |
| Languages | French, Italian, English |
| Home | Milan, Italy |
| Partner | Francisca "Kika" Gomes (since 2022) |
Gasly's family connection to motorsport runs three generations deep. His grandmother was a kart champion. His grandfather competed in karting. His father Jean-Jacques raced in karting, endurance events, and rallying before a co-driver error caused him to go off a mountain, ending his rally career.
Pierre first sat in a kart at age six at a local track in Anneville-Ambourville. Football and ice hockey also competed for his attention as a child, but karting always won. At thirteen, he left Rouen for Le Mans to pursue racing more seriously. He practises his Christian faith openly and makes the sign of the cross before each race.
Gasly began competing in karting formally in 2006, progressing through the French Cadet Championship before stepping onto the international scene in 2009. By 2010 he was runner-up at the CIK-FIA European Karting Championship.
Throughout these years, one friendship stood out. From age seven, Gasly had karted alongside Anthoine Hubert. They attended the same private school in Normandy and shared a bedroom as roommates for several years. It is a friendship whose ending would cast a long shadow over everything that followed.
Gasly made his single-seater debut in 2011 in French F4, finishing third overall with wins at Spa, Albi, and Le Castellet. He was the top rookie.
He moved to the Formula Renault Eurocup with R-Ace GP in 2012 for a solid learning year, then switched to Tech 1 Racing for 2013. With wins at Moscow, the Hungaroring, and Le Castellet, he clinched the championship at the Barcelona finale despite pressure from Oliver Rowland. It was his first major single-seater title and earned him entry into the Red Bull Junior Team.
In 2014, Gasly moved to Formula Renault 3.5 with Arden under the Red Bull programme, finishing runner-up to fellow Red Bull junior Carlos Sainz Jr. He also made his GP2 debut at Monza before joining DAMS for a full 2015 season. The campaign was uneven. Three pole positions and four podiums were offset by avoidable incidents, and he finished eighth, two places behind teammate Alex Lynn.
For 2016, Gasly joined Prema alongside rookie Antonio Giovinazzi in what became one of the most closely fought GP2 title battles in the series' history.
On the way to the season finale at Yas Marina, Gasly was involved in a road accident in which his mother was injured. He arrived at the circuit with Giovinazzi seven points ahead. He won the opening race from pole position. Giovinazzi finished sixth in the final race. The title was Gasly's, clinched under the most difficult circumstances he had yet faced.
Rather than promoting Gasly to F1, Red Bull sent him to Japan's Super Formula with Team Mugen. He adapted quickly, taking his first win at Motegi in just his fifth race and finishing runner-up to Hiroaki Ishiura in the championship. He also made a brief Formula E appearance at the New York City ePrix for Renault e.dams, a rarely noted detail that speaks to his experience across different car types.
Mid-season at Toro Rosso, Kvyat continued to struggle. Red Bull gave Gasly his F1 debut at the 2017 Malaysian Grand Prix, stepping in with no prior Friday practice. He reached Q2 on his first attempt and finished a lapped fourteenth, only seven seconds from the final points position.
He returned for the Mexican Grand Prix and closed out the season. For 2018, Gasly and Brendon Hartley became full-time Toro Rosso drivers as the team switched to Honda power. Gasly consistently outperformed his teammate. His standout result was fourth at Bahrain, one of Toro Rosso's best results in years. He ended the season fifteenth overall with 29 points, well clear of Hartley's four.
In August 2018, Red Bull confirmed Gasly as Max Verstappen's teammate for 2019, replacing the departing Daniel Ricciardo. The numbers from the first half of the season tell the story clearly. At the Hungarian Grand Prix, Verstappen had 181 points, two wins, and five podiums. Gasly had 63 points, no podiums, and had out-qualified his teammate once.
Red Bull demoted him back to Toro Rosso ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix, with Alexander Albon taking his seat. The timing was particularly cruel. That Belgian Grand Prix weekend was when Anthoine Hubert was killed in a Formula 2 race at Spa. Losing his Red Bull seat and losing his closest friend in motorsport happened in the same few days. Gasly has since spoken about carrying images from that period he would rather never have seen.
Back at Toro Rosso alongside Kvyat, Gasly immediately looked liberated. He scored five points finishes in nine races and reached Q3 four consecutive times.
At Interlagos, he qualified seventh and navigated a chaotic race to find himself in second place in the closing laps. Lewis Hamilton, on fresh soft tyres, closed rapidly. Gasly held him off by 0.062 seconds at the line, a photo finish that delivered his maiden F1 podium. Over the radio, he said simply: "This is the best day of my life."
It was Toro Rosso's best result since the 2008 Italian Grand Prix and Honda's first one-two finish since the 1991 Japanese Grand Prix. Red Bull did not call him back.
Toro Rosso rebranded as AlphaTauri for 2020. Gasly was their standout performer: points in 12 of 17 races, Q3 appearances in 11 of them.
At the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, an early pit stop during a safety car period moved him up the order. Race leader Hamilton then pitted to serve a penalty, handing the lead to Lance Stroll. Stroll lost ground at the restart. Gasly inherited first place and held off Carlos Sainz Jr. to win by 0.415 seconds.
He was the 109th different driver to win an F1 Grand Prix and the first French winner since Olivier Panis in 1996. The victory triggered speculation about a Red Bull return. His replacement Albon had finished fifth. Red Bull stayed with Albon. Gasly stayed at AlphaTauri.
2021 was Gasly's most complete F1 season. He scored points in 15 of 22 races, lined up on the front row in Qatar, and finished ninth in the championship with 110 points.
The highlight was the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, where he ran fourth before climbing to third as Verstappen suffered a tyre failure and Hamilton made a braking error in the closing stages. A clean battle with Leclerc on the penultimate lap secured his third career podium.
AlphaTauri struggled heavily under the 2022 regulations. The AT03 was one of the worst affected cars for porpoising and Gasly could do little with it. He scored eighth at Saudi Arabia and ninth in Australia but went ten races without points in the middle of the season. He finished fourteenth overall.
His decision was already made. After six years in the Red Bull programme, he had chosen to leave. He signed with Alpine for 2023.
2023 was a strong debut season at Alpine. Gasly out-scored teammate Esteban Ocon and out-qualified him 14 times to 8. He scored his first Alpine podium at the Dutch Grand Prix and added a third place in the Belgian Sprint Race. He finished eighth in the championship.
2024 brought his fifth career podium at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix. Starting thirteenth in a rain-affected race, he worked through the field to finish third, moving twelve places up the standings in one afternoon.
2025 was defined by the machinery rather than the driver. Alpine chose to redirect their resources to 2026 development earlier than any other team, leaving the A525 badly underpowered. Gasly scored every single point Alpine collected across the entire season as the team finished last in the constructors championship. He was disqualified from the Chinese Grand Prix when the car was found to be underweight, through no fault of his own. Despite having almost nothing to work with in the second half of the year, he drove a largely mistake-free campaign.
In 2025, Gasly signed a contract extension keeping him at Alpine through at least the end of 2028, one of the longest commitments of any current F1 driver. He enters 2026 alongside new teammate Franco Colapinto under new technical regulations, optimistic that Alpine's 2025 sacrifice will produce a step forward in competitiveness.
It will be his ninth full F1 season, begun with the track record of someone who has proven he can perform at a higher level than the cars he has often been given.
Gasly has lived in Milan since 2019. He has been in a relationship with Francisca "Kika" Gomes since October 2022, a Portuguese model and influencer signed to Central Models in Lisbon.
His closest friendship in motorsport was with Anthoine Hubert, who died at the 2019 Belgian Grand Prix F2 race at age 22. They had karted together from age seven, attended the same school, and shared rooms as teenagers. Gasly has spoken carefully and openly about how much that loss shaped him.
He grew up close to both Charles Leclerc and Esteban Ocon. His relationship with Ocon deteriorated during their karting rivalry and never fully recovered. Their time as Alpine teammates in 2023 and 2024 was professional rather than warm.
Away from racing, he speaks French natively, English and Italian fluently. He runs the Team Gas fan community through his personal website, organises Gasly Tour events for fans at European race weekends, and runs an official merchandise store. As a child, before karting took hold completely, he played football and ice hockey.
| Year | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | Points | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Toro Rosso | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22nd |
| 2018 | Toro Rosso | 21 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 15th |
| 2019 | Red Bull / Toro Rosso | 21 | 0 | 1 | 95 | 7th |
| 2020 | AlphaTauri | 17 | 1 | 1 | 75 | 10th |
| 2021 | AlphaTauri | 22 | 0 | 1 | 110 | 9th |
| 2022 | AlphaTauri | 22 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 14th |
| 2023 | Alpine | 22 | 0 | 1 | 62 | 8th |
| 2024 | Alpine | 24 | 0 | 1 | 42 | 12th |
| 2025 | Alpine | 24 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 17th |
| 2026 | Alpine | — | — | — | — | In progress |
Career totals: 1 win, 5 podiums, 175+ race starts
Last updated March 2026
