Red Bull not blocking Gasly for Alpine F1 team move
Aug.31 - Red Bull is not ruling out releasing Pierre Gasly from his contract at AlphaTauri.
In the past days, the Frenchman - although already confirmed at Red Bull's second team for 2023 - has been strongly linked with the vacant seat at Renault-owned Alpine to create an all-French lineup with Esteban Ocon.
Some have said Red Bull's rock-solid deal with Gasly makes his move to Alpine impossible, but Christian Horner is not ruling it out. "The market is quite fluid at the moment," said the Red Bull team boss.
Oscar Piastri
He said the new uncertainty is connected to Alpine's contractual tug-of-war with McLaren over Oscar Piastri, which was heard by the FIA's contract recognition board on Monday.
"We will see what the result of the CRB will be and then go from there," said Horner.
"For us, obviously Pierre is still a driver under contract with Red Bull until the end of next season. We also have a contract with Checo (Sergio Pérez) for the next two years and Max (Verstappen) has a long-term contract.
"We have to consider all the possibilities, but first and foremost we will have to see what the CRB is going to say. Everything else is pure speculation," he insisted.
As for 26-year-old Gasly, he is keeping quiet for now - and played down the prospect of any official announcements in the forthcoming days ahead of the Dutch F1 GP.
When asked if there would be any news this week, Gasly said: "Not from my side."
✅ Check out more posts with related topics:
Alpine or AT, i cant make up my mind which is better , in theory the AT should a rocketship and I cant understand why it isn't...!
Yep, AT has the same engine as RB. It's all about better cooling, less weight, more downforce and less drag.
Yeah I get all that, but as the team is the sister team, lets face it, Dieter wants as much Pr and Profit as he can get, so , and i'm not arguing clones are a good thing but with all the copies that float around f1 recently, i'm just surprised, that they don't even regularly qualify higher up