Pierre Gasly ‘would be worried’ if Flavio Briatore fails to make a big change at Alpine

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Alpine are officially the best worst team that F1 has ever seen, with Pierre Gasly’s 20 points so far in 2025 the most scored by the outfit last in the constructors’ standings.

The 2025 F1 season has been a year to forget for the Enstone natives to date, with the focus often being on their driver line-up instead of their performances. Gasly started 2025 sharing the garage with Jack Doohan but Alpine dropped the Australian for Franco Colapinto in May.

Doohan returned to being a reserve driver for Alpine, having failed to secure a point through the first six rounds of this season. Yet Colapinto has also failed to score a point through eight rounds and has also only matched Doohan’s best result of P13 in Monaco and Canada so far.

Colapinto’s £15m sponsorship package is now the only thing keeping him at Alpine, yet he is likely to be replaced in 2026 at the latest. The 22-year-old has so far beaten Gasly in just the Grands Prix in Monaco (when the latter retired), Canada (P13-P16) and Hungary (P18-P19).

Pierre Gasly ‘would be worried’ if Flavio Briatore cannot improve Alpine’s championship position

Colapinto has struggled to adapt to Alpine’s Renault engine, which is costing him around 0.4 seconds each lap owing to how the power unit recovers and deploys energy. Gasly has been compared to Max Verstappen for how he overcomes the Alpine A525’s deficiencies, as well.

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Yet Gasly can see some sunshine on the horizon for Alpine as their executive adviser, Flavio Briatore, is making plenty of changes behind the scenes to lift them up the F1 constructors’ championship. Alpine ranked fifth in 2021 and fourth in ‘22 but came sixth in 2023 and ‘24.

Now, Alpine rank dead last in the 2025 standings, with only Gasly’s 20 points from the first 14 out of 24 rounds. Haas are 15 points clear of Alpine ahead of the Dutch Grand Prix. And Gasly admits he “would be worried” if Briatore’s changes do not improve Alpine’s position.

“I have a very good relationship with Flavio and the key management in the team,” Gasly told RacingNews365. “And I can really see where their mindset is, the processes that are changing and what is actually evolving.

“I would be worried right now if nothing changed, because we’re obviously not in a good place. But we have a lot of great people, we have great staff, and we are adding key people to the factory.”

Flavio Briatore needs Franco Colapinto to step up and match Pierre Gasly in 2025

Gasly has scored Alpine’s only points so far in the 2025 F1 season via his P7 in Bahrain, P8 in Spain, P6 in Britain and P10 in Belgium. The 29-year-old also secured P8 in the Miami Sprint. But Alpine need Colapinto to step up after he only finished P15 in Spain and P19 in Belgium.

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Colapinto did not start the British Grand Prix as he burnt his clutch out in the pit lane, having also qualified in last place while Gasly secured P10 (which became P8 on the grid). It was the second time he ruined his clutch after doing so in Q1 in Spain, where Gasly would qualify P8.

Gasly was disqualified from P11 in the Chinese Grand Prix as his car was underweight, which ensured he could not benefit from Ferrari also having both of their cars disqualified. Charles Leclerc (underweight) and Lewis Hamilton (floor wear) lost their P5 and P6 finishes in China.