Pierre Gasly, Alpine, Miami, 2025

Pierre Gasly is a strong candidate for the driver who is having the least consistent season of anyone on the grid.

On his best days Alpine’s de facto lead driver has dragged the A525 higher up the grid and further into the points than it deserves to be. On other occasions he’s let points slip through his grasp with needless mistakes.

He went point-less over the first three rounds, slipping from ninth on the grid at Melbourne to finish one place out of the points after going off in the rain-hit race and suffering brake trouble. Another 11th followed in China where he was disqualified anyway for a technical infringement. At Suzuka he started 11th but lost a place to Fernando Alonso at the start.

After that inauspicious beginning he delivered one of the qualifying laps of the season in Bahrain to claim a place on the second row of the grid. A solid points finish was his reward, though Max Verstappen nabbed sixth off him on the final tour.

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Ninth on the grid in Jeddah was almost as impressive given the Alpine’s straight-line speed deficit, but he was taken out on the first lap by Yuki Tsunoda. However he picked up another point in the Miami sprint race largely by keeping out of trouble.

He could only manage 13th from the back of the grid in the grand prix and finished there again at Imola, where he destroyed his points chances with a trip through the Piratella gravel trap. In Monaco he retired early after tangling with Tsunoda again, though this time Gasly was to blame.

Although he gathered more points with eighth place in Spain, zeroes in Canada and Austria (despite running sixth early on) left Gasly openly wondering whether he wouldn’t score again all season. Then came the rain-hit race at Silverstone.

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While Nico Hulkenberg stole the show with his run to third, Gasly’s sixth place was also well-earned, particularly as he qualified a strong eighth and unlike his Sauber rival could not afford to take a ‘nothing to lose’ approach to the race. Wresting two more points from Lance Stroll on the final lap was the coup de grace.

He should have started eighth for the sprint race at Spa too but encountered technical trouble. However Gasly snatched the final point on race day. After two races in the points, Hungary was a bump back down to earth, as Gasly was bumped out by his team mate in Q1 and was penalised for forcing Carlos Sainz Jnr off the track during his forgettable run to 19th.

Gasly’s mixed results are partly a consequence of how tight the midfield is in F1 this year. But he remains the only Alpine driver to have scored points so far this year, which remains an impressive feat, even if it’s also fair to say he should have a few more.

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