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Szafnauer: Gasly meets our criteria to a tee

Otmar Szafnauer, Alpine team boss, revealed that hiring Pierre Gasly to replace Fernando Alonso came as a result of the Frenchman meeting the team's criteria to a tee. Alpine announced – over the 2022 Japanese Grand Prix weekend – that Pierre Gasly would join their ranks in 2023 replacing the Aston Martin-bound Fernando Alonso, after they also failed to keep their junior driver Oscar Piastri under contract, the latter joining McLaren for 2023. Asked about how it came about to hire Gasly, Szafnauer said: 'Well, we had, as everyone knows, we had a seat available around the summer break, and then we started looking around as to who would be a best fit, and we had some criteria to...
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