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Five races, two points. Gasly’s last five outings have produced a consistent pattern of grid positions that promise more than the results deliver. He’s qualified inside the top ten three times in that stretch and converted it into a single point at the United States Grand Prix. The other four races have returned nothing, including two finishes where he was lapped.
The trajectory is downward. A driver who arrived at Alpine in 2023 after a decade of rebuilding through the Red Bull junior structure is now scraping the lower reaches of the points table with the season nearly done. The gap between his qualifying pace and his race-day output is the defining story of this run.
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Gasly finished P14 from P15 on the grid at the Brazilian Grand Prix, gaining one place across the race but ending the afternoon lapped and pointless. It’s a result that adds nothing to a championship tally that has barely moved in over a month.
2026 So Far
Gasly sits P10 in the drivers’ championship with 42 points and the direction over the closing rounds is firmly downward. A decade into his F1 career after debuting in 2017 and across 198 starts, he’s managed one win and five podiums in total. This season looks set to be one of the quieter chapters in that record.
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Gasly relaxed as Colapinto fan frenzy hits Interlagos
Pierre Gasly arrives at Interlagos this weekend fully aware of the charged atmosphere that surrounds the Alpine garage whenever Franco Colapinto races close to home. The Brazilian Grand Prix is the nearest thing the Argentine driver gets to a home race and the passion that follows him has been visible in F1 grandstands since Colapinto ended his country’s 23-year absence from the grid in 2024. The scale of that fanbase caught plenty of people off guard but Gasly isn’t one of them. He’s dealt with a different kind of pressure entirely, having spent years under the scrutiny of Helmut Marko at Red Bull, and he’s made clear that experience puts everything else in perspective. His point is a fair one. Marko’s management style is not exactly known for its warmth, and surviving that environment does tend to recalibrate what counts as stressful. Gasly seems genuinely unbothered by the idea that a large portion of the crowd in São Paulo would prefer his teammate to be the centre of attention. That’s a healthy attitude for a driver who needs to focus on his own performance rather than the noise outside the garage. Alpine will want both drivers delivering this weekend and Gasly’s composure in the face of an unusual team dynamic suggests he’s in the right headspace to do exactly that.
Gasly penalised post-race after Mexico yellow flag breach
Pierre Gasly’s Mexico City Grand Prix ended in disappointment after stewards handed him a post-race time penalty for failing to slow under yellow flags during the race, dropping him out of the points entirely. Both Alpine drivers faced FIA investigations after the event, with Gasly and team-mate Franco Colapinto both found to have breached yellow flag regulations. The penalty cost Gasly whatever championship points he had provisionally collected, a bitter outcome given how competitive the midfield battle has been throughout the 2026 season. The direct beneficiary of the stewards’ decisions was Haas debutant Ryo Hirakawa, who inherited a points-scoring position as a result of the Alpine pair being demoted in the final classification. It’s a frustrating pattern for Gasly, who has seen points slip away through incidents and penalties at various points this year. A yellow flag infringement is one of the more avoidable ways to lose a result, and Alpine will be keen to ensure their drivers are better protected from such post-race scrutiny going forward. With the season in its closing stages the lost points will sting, and Gasly will need a clean run through the remaining rounds if he’s to salvage something meaningful from what has been a difficult campaign for the French driver and his team.
Gasly leads Alpine midfield charge but trails Lawson
Pierre Gasly sits second among midfield points scorers in 2026 with 42 points to his name, though that figure tells a story of a significant gap at the top of that particular battle. Liam Lawson has accumulated 83 points across the season so far, which is close to double what Gasly has managed, making the Racing Bulls driver the clear standout in the non-top-team fight this year. For Gasly and Alpine, 42 points is still a meaningful return and places him ahead of the rest of the midfield pack, which reflects reasonably well on the Frenchman’s consistency through a campaign that has seen the constructors’ battle remain tight across several teams. The context around Lawson’s numbers is worth keeping in mind too: Lawson’s points-per-race average was actually fairly similar whether he was driving for Red Bull or Racing Bulls, at 4.67 and 4.31 respectively, which suggests the gap between Gasly and Lawson isn’t simply explained by machinery. Gasly has been doing his job at Alpine but the raw numbers confirm that Lawson has been operating at a different level in 2026. Whether Alpine can close the performance gap to Racing Bulls in the remaining rounds will determine how much Gasly can add to his tally before the season closes out.