“It was sad”
Ex-driver attacks F1 racing team Red Bull
12/27/2025 – 8:46 a.mReading time: 2 minutes
When he came to Red Bull, Pierre Gasly had just started in Formula 1. Looking back, the F1 driver is critical of his time there.
Pierre Gasly now drives for Alpine in Formula 1. The Frenchman finished the past season in 18th place. The 29-year-old previously sat in the cockpit for Alpha Tauri and Red Bull, among others. Gasly has no good memories of Max Verstappen’s racing team, as he now announced.
Above all, the fact that he was replaced by Alexander Albon in 2019, despite achieving 63 World Cup points, hurt him a lot. “I’m not going to lie, it was sad,” said Gasly in an interview with “F1.com”.
At that time he was driving his second season in the premier class of motorsport and would have liked to have been given more guidance. “My second year in Formula 1 – there was no support from any quarter, in a very large team that is fully behind Max Verstappen. For good reasons, because he delivered the results.”
He wasn’t happy with himself. “I tried to carve my own path because that’s what I wanted, and at the end of the day I’m there to perform. They weren’t happy, but I wasn’t happy either because I realized I couldn’t show my potential,” the Formula 1 driver continued.
Max Verstappen has been driving for Red Bull since 2016 and has won four world championship titles in a row with the racing team: 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. This year Verstappen came second behind Mclaren driver Lando Norris – but only two points behind.