Alpine’s season has been inconsistent, with their best performance being a seventh-place finish in Bahrain. As the F1 Miami GP 2025 awaits around the corner, Pierre Gasly, Alpine’s first driver, spoke to the media about the competition.
Talking about the fierce competition and recent team advancements
The competition is intense, with narrow margins deciding outcomes. Although the team faced early setbacks, Gasly reflected on the improvements in recent competitions and is confident in Alpine’s ability to challenge their rivals.
“I think it’s extremely tight in the field, especially from the sort of position we’re fighting in. Within three tenths you could be in Q3 or knocked out in Q1. So it’s just difficult. I think we’ve been able to really put things together the last two events.”
“We’ve not been very fortunate in the first three races. But I do feel we’ve got the speed to fight the Williams, AlphaTauri (sic) are very competitive at time, also Haas. So we’ve just got to be on top of our game and extract every hundredth and millisecond of our package, and I’m sure we’ll be able to fight for those.”
Tyre strategy challenges at Miami Sprint and Grand Prix
In Jeddah, Pirelli had chosen a softer tyre allocation as C3 acted as the hardest and C5 was the softest. Pirelli provided harder compounds for the Miami GP: C2, C3, and C4.
Gasly is sure that the introduction of a Sprint weekend this year adds uncertainty and complexity, particularly regarding tyre allocation and strategy.
“Well, I think for sure it brings a bit more unknown coming this year also with a Sprint weekend. It doesn’t make things very easy in terms of tyre allocation and what way you want to go, so there are probably going to be compromises to be taken at some stage throughout the weekend. But yeah, I think we might see slightly more differences across strategy, definitely for Sunday. But I’m sure we’ll learn more about it also Saturday, once we’ve done the sprint race.”
Gasly and Alpine enter the Miami GP weekend in ninth place in the Constructors’ Championship, with Sauber on six points. Gasly remains the only points scorer for Alpine in 2025, with team-mate Jack Doohan yet to score in what is proving to be a challenging debut season for the Australian.
