Gasly gives Alpine ambitious top-five goal for 2025 F1 season

Pierre Gasly has set a daring goal of a top-five end for Alpine within the 2025 Method 1 constructors’ championship.

Alpine endured a tough marketing campaign final 12 months, partly right down to its A524 automobile being chubby initially of the season. The workforce languished in ninth place till its place within the standings was considerably boosted by a double podium end in Brazil, which vaulted it to sixth.

In no small half because of the Interlagos outcome, Alpine was the fifth highest-scoring workforce after the summer season break in 2024, and when Motorsport.com requested Gasly about his hopes for the upcoming season at this week’s Autosport Awards, the Frenchman was simply as bold.

“I am going to go along with a high 5 within the constructors’, as a result of that is what I need and I believe that is positively achievable,” Gasly confidently answered.

“Clearly deep inside me I would like greater than that, however I’ve obtained to be goal and know that it is going to be a good subject, a aggressive subject, and I do not anticipate huge change in comparison with final 12 months.”

Pink Bull workforce principal Christian Horner would are likely to agree with the expectation of a established order within the pecking order, within the context of regulatory stability forward of the 2026 technical overhaul.

Following a record-breaking 2024 season during which seven drivers took a number of grand prix wins every and 4 constructors claimed no less than 4 victories apiece, Horner expects his personal workforce and its regular rivals to be frontrunners once more.

“I believe it is going to be tremendous tight. We’ll have 4 groups which are going to be tremendous aggressive,” the Briton instructed Motorsport.com on the Autosport Awards.

“Take your choose: McLaren goes to be sturdy, Ferrari goes to be sturdy, Mercedes goes to have one thing to show as effectively. It might be a stellar 12 months.

“It’ll be about marginal good points and getting essentially the most out of each weekend. So Method 1 is ready to be the winner this 12 months, and it is going to be a really open championship.”