Gasly would like to do in 2022 'what Brawn GP did in 2009

The teams are working hard on the future regulations of Formula 1. Indeed, the discipline will make its technical revolution in 2022 with a whole new set of rules which will impose a drastic revision of the chassis, to the point that all the teams started from zero.

This is a colossal project carried out with budgetary constraints, which could in particular suitable for small stables, used to limited means. Pierre Gasly explained to us that he has not yet been able to test the new car in the Italian team’s simulator.

“No not yet, but it will be soon” said Gasly during an exclusive interview for Nextgen-Auto.com, before explaining how the development of the future is going AT03.

“There are a lot of discoveries every week and every month. We start from a blank sheet, the car evolves , there is a lot to explore. I continue to follow its evolution and I know that we can find more performance. “

“It’s irregular: sometimes the project stagnates, sometimes we find something that makes us move forward. We want to exploit the limits of the regulations because we are starting from a blank sheet. And it will be interesting to see what will happen. to do all the other teams. “

Create a surprise with the technical revolution of F1 2022

Other teams whose level of performance is clearly impossible to imagine next year. Many are looking to exploit the loophole in the rules to hope to get ahead of the rest of the peloton, as Brawn GP did at the time.

The team formerly known as the name Honda had succeeded in exploiting the arrival of the 2009 regulations to be well in the lead at the start of the season, thanks to a work focused exclusively on this new regulation for a year and a half. Gasly would not be opposed to the idea of ​​seeing his team do the same.

“We hope to do what we had made Brawn GP in 2009! “ he smiles. ” But we’ll have to see at the start of the year, we hope for a good surprise. that it will give us the opportunity to find a little extra thing that will allow us to be ahead, and we will approach the season in that state of mind. “

The long term goal is to join a top team

Pierre Gasly refuses to think about the future for the moment, even if he admitted that he would like to have a second chance at Red Bull . Nevertheless, he wants to assert himself at AlphaTauri and convince Red Bull to take him over, which is currently his main objective.

The objective for him would obviously be to return to fight against his comrades promotion formulas such as Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, George Russell or Lando Norris: “Today, I am under contract with Red Bull, and my objective is to fight at the front with them. “

” I want to fight in front, and I see the pilots with whom I was fighting in the lower categories, Charles, Max, George or even Lando, who have bucket seats in the top stables. I want to fight with them for the podiums every weekend. It’s still early but that’s it that I want. “