Pierre Gasly, of the AlphaTauri team, won the Italian Grand Prix at Monza on Sunday, a first for a French driver in Formula 1 since 1996. "Gasly deserves his place in a great team", greeted the six-time champion of the world Lewis Hamilton at the end of the race.
The victory was almost unthinkable.
Pierre Gasly won the Italian Grand Prix at Monza on Sunday, a first for a French driver in Formula 1 since 1996. "It's unbelievable. I'm not sure I'm realizing. It was a completely crazy race," said he declared after his victory.
A tour de force hailed by the greatest, like the six-time world champion Lewis Hamilton.
"Gasly deserves his place in a great team," said the Briton, who finished seventh, after the race.
Pushed out of the Red Bull stable
Last year, however, many thought the career of Pierre Gasly on the decline.
While this great French hope had just arrived in the prestigious Red Bull team, everything collapsed in six months.
His results are not good, the leaders push him out ruthlessly.
Pierre Gasly joins the small Toro Rosso stable, which has become AlphaTauri.
The Norman swallows his resentment and goes back to work.
His car is limited but he climbed on the podium for the first time in Brazil, last November.
"This success, he built it with his team"
Before his victory on Sunday, the last Frenchman to have resounded the Marseillaise in the Grand Prix was Olivier Panis, almost a quarter of a century ago in Monaco.
"If I wanted a French driver who dethroned me, it's him, a big bravo to Pierre, he's a fabulous guy, a great professional, I hope he can go to a great team and continue on this This success, he owes it to no one, he built it with his team. It is a nice
snub
to Helmut Marko
[boss of the Red Bull pilots sector, nldr]
, he should have kept it " , he declared at the microphone of Canal +.
Despite this victory in the taste of revenge, Gasly did not want to comment on a possible return to Red Bull after his performance.