Pierre Gasly cost a huge eight-figure fee as Alpine bought out his Red Bull contract
Gasly will be in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 2023 driver line-up for Alpine after he🙈 signed a multi-year dealꦆ from Red Bull’s sister team AlphaTauri.
Nyck de Vries is his replacement at AlphaTauri.
"It was a clear call and definitely very attractive," Gasly told Sky. "It felt the right time for me to take my own♈ start and take my career on my own and start this incredible story with Alpine.
"What's easy in Formula 1? Nothing is easy!" Gasly s🐟aid. "I must admit I'm very thankful to everyone involved because everybody tried their absolute best to make it happen.
"On Red Bull's side, Christian [Horner, team boss] and Helmut [Marko, team advisor] understood how important, how big this opportunity wa🔯s to me and my desire to go there and start this new adventure with Alpine."
Gasly added: "It's a big change in my career. I'm closing a💃 nine-year chapter with Red Bull, having had a lot of success in younger categor𝔍ies as well as my five years in Formula 1, my first win, podiums.
"I'm starting a new chap꧃ter with Alpine༺. It's a fresh start."
Gasly will team with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Esteban Ocon next season - th🥀e French duo have a rocky history but Alpine boss Otmar Szafnauer insists that was taken into considera🀅tion.
In the list of 2022 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 driver salaries, Gasly and Ocon are both estimaꦫte꧙d to be earning £4.1m ($5m).
But Alpine, without the costly 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Alonso who will leave for Aston Martin, are likely to have💫 handed Gasly a bumper new pay packet.
ജGasly strug꧙gled in Qualifying at the F1 Japanese Grand Prix and will start in 17th, with Ocon fifth.
James w🌜as a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
