Alpine’s Pierre Gasly will attain a private landmark as he prepares to have fun his a hundred and fiftieth profession begin in F1 on the 2024 Sao Paulo Grand Prix.
In doing so, the 28-year-old joins his Alpine workforce mate Esteban Ocon – who additionally reached the identical milestone earlier this season in Baku – in achieving the tally in 2024 with the French squad.
To mark the pair’s achievements, F1 are gifting away a pair of Ocon and Gasly’s boots from their respective a hundred and fiftieth Grand Prix begins, which you’ll be able to enter here.
Gasly’s journey to 150 begins has seen him take pleasure in loads of success over time, after he earned his Components 1 debut with Toro Rosso on the 2017 Malaysian Grand Prix. His sturdy performances on the finish of that 12 months secured him a full-time seat for the next season and, in 2019, he achieved his first F1 podium, ending a powerful second at Interlagos.
In 2020, he delivered a shocking victory on the Italian Grand Prix in Monza, driving for AlphaTauri. This win made him the primary French driver to triumph in Components 1 since Olivier Panis at Monaco in 1996 and has lived lengthy within the reminiscence for a lot of followers. Whereas Gasly was unable to have fun with a passionate Monza crowd as a consequence of Covid restrictions on the time, he did obtain a congratulatory name from French President Emmanuel Macron.