{"id":36566,"date":"2025-08-05T05:25:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=36566"},"modified":"2025-08-05T05:25:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:25:20","slug":"pierre-gasly-warns-the-rest-of-2025-going-to-be-painful-for-alpine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2025\/08\/05\/pierre-gasly-warns-the-rest-of-2025-going-to-be-painful-for-alpine\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierre Gasly warns the rest of 2025 “going to be painful” for Alpine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alpine finished the first half of the season with their worst result, crossing the line in 18th and 19th at the Hungaroring.<\/p>\n

Although Pierre Gasly has enjoyed a few solid results, the Frenchman’s machinery in 2025 has overall been underwhelming.<\/p>\n

With no more upgrades scheduled for this season, Alpine’s drivers<\/a> must brace themselves for a tough few months. Gasly is aware of the team’s situation, and is already looking ahead to the 2026 regulations.<\/p>\n

Gasly pessimistic for final 10 rounds of the season<\/h2>\n

At the beginning of the year, Pierre Gasly left no doubts about how he thought Alpine should prioritise<\/a> its resources.<\/p>\n

The Grand Prix winner insisted that prioritising the 2026 cars should be the team’s priority – even at the expense of 2025.<\/p>\n

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Pierre Gasly in Budapest, Hungary. (Photo by Alastair Staley\/LAT Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Like most teams, Alpine are now directing all of their resources to development for the new set of regulations.<\/p>\n

Unlike virtually every other team, however, the Enstone-based operation find themselves increasingly struggling to score points.<\/p>\n

Sauber and Aston Martin’s<\/a> resurgence has been significant, with mid-season upgrades putting both squads to the front of the midfield.<\/p>\n

With VCARB ever-consistent and Haas very fast under the right conditions, Alpine continue to fall down the pecking order.<\/p>\n

For all the attention surrounding Alpine in the aftermath of their mid-season swap, Flavio Briatore’s team<\/a> are becoming relatively anonymous.<\/p>\n

Pierre Gasly gave an honest assessment of the situation after the Hungarian GP:<\/p>\n

“I’m here to race, not to just go around and let people go by – it is what it is.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I just want to work with the team for next year, I know what we have to fight for this season.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I know this year is going to be painful, and I don’t want to get into that frustration of not having the races we would like.<\/em><\/p>\n

“We just try, try to focus on my driving, put in the best work I can for the team – fought hard every single weekend.<\/em><\/p>\n

“This season is not going to be easy until the end of the year. But just want to work for next year.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Alpine under pressure to deliver<\/h4>\n

Every team, not just Alpine, have big expectations to fulfil when the 2026 season begins.<\/p>\n

The new aerodynamic and engine regulations of next year present a huge opportunity for teams to climb the pecking order.<\/p>\n

Critically, Alpine decided to abandon their own Renault engines and become a Mercedes customer team<\/a>. This controversial move, there they essentially surrendered their manufacturer status, adds another element to their 2026 development.<\/p>\n

With midfield teams like Aston Martin<\/a>, Williams and even Sauber growing in ambition, Formula 1 is more competitive than it has ever been.<\/p>\n

To some extent, Alpine could benefit from having Mercedes engines next year. After all, the consensus is that the Brackley squad will deliver the best power units in 2026.<\/p>\n

However, assuming this is true, Alpine will have the same engines as McLaren, Williams and – of course – Mercedes themselves. Outperforming these teams and producing a better aerodynamic concept will not be easy.<\/p>\n

There is also the possibility for another manufacturer, such as Honda, to take F1 by storm next season.<\/p>\n

Should this be the case, Alpine might regret abandoning the Renault power unit – which would have put their destiny completely in their hands.<\/p>\n

Regardless, both Pierre Gasly and Franco Colapinto must come to terms with their machinery until the end of 2025.<\/p>\n

Main photo: Simon Galloway\/LAT Images (Alpine media gallery)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alpine finished the first half of the season with their worst result, crossing the line in 18th and 19th at the Hungaroring. Although Pierre Gasly has enjoyed a few solid results, the Frenchman’s machinery in 2025 has overall been underwhelming. With no more upgrades scheduled for this season, Alpine’s drivers must brace themselves for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4927,"featured_media":36569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[2501,1567,2452,111],"class_list":["post-36566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","category-news","tag-a525","tag-alpine","tag-f1-2025-season","tag-pierre-gasly"],"modified_by":"Jaden Diaz-Ndisang","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36572,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36566\/revisions\/36572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}