A valid point: since when did Alpine not join F1?

It wasn’t all bad news for Alpine in it Brazilian Grand Prix. Yes ok Franco Colapinto suffered the irregularity of the A525 again, with a crash in the sprint and a fifteenth place in the race, Pierre Gasly He got into the points both times and ended the French team’s bad streak.

Gasly had started the weekend well, with a seventh place in free practice and a good lap to get into the second stage of qualifying, in which he finished thirteenth, and both on Saturday and Sunday he confirmed his positive feelings.

Regarding the sprint, the 29-year-old driver overtook a couple of cars at the start and, with a solid performance, took advantage of other people’s mistakes, such as the crashes of Piastri and Hülkenberg, to reach ninth place. There he had to pass a pilot, something he achieved by leave Lance Stroll behind.

Gasly was even close to Alonso, sixth, and Hamilton, seventh, with a very good pace, but finished in eighth place.

And this Sunday, in the highlight of the weekend, he remained even throughout the 71 laps and closed tenth, adding another key point for Alpine, which now reached the 22 units in the seasonwhere it is very far from Sauber (64), Haas (70), Aston Martin (72) and Racing Bulls (80).

How many dates did Alpine have without adding?

Until now, All Alpine points for the year were contributed by Pierre Gasly. Neither Jack Doohan, in the first six races, nor Franco Colapinto, in the next 15, were able to score points. But Gasly, because of the uncompetitive car, didn’t do it often either…

In fact, Alpine had seven consecutive Grand Prix without scoring: the point that Gasly added on July 27 in Spa, for the Belgian Grand Prixwas the last (he previously contributed in Bahrain, Miami, Spain and Great Britain) until this Brazil.

Since then, they passed Hungary, Netherlands, Azerbaijan, Singapore, United States (Texas) and Mexicountil in San Pablo the Frenchman got into the points in both races: the sprint and the main race.

Brazil suits Gasly well

Last season, in which Alpine was more competitive, Gasly scored by finishing third in Sao Paulo: in fact, in a race marked by a deluge and an epic comeback by Max Verstappen, Alpine celebrated a historic 2-3, with Esteban Ocon and the aforementioned Gasly on the podium.

That day, in addition, the Rouen-born rider ran his 150th Grand Prix, a great milestone in his career. Your other results at Interlagos? With Toro Rosso he was 12th (2017), 13th, 13th (2018) and 2nd (2019), another impressive result and his first podium in F1; with AlphaTauri it was 7th (2021), 14th (2021) and 14th (2022); and with Alpine he was 7th (2023) before the podium last year.

In 2025, with a couple of points in the context of a complicated year, Gasly once again confirmed his good feelings at Interlagos.