Pierre Gasly overheard mentioning “contract” talks - is he set to join Alpine?

The168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: F1 2023 driver line-up is still to be finalised but a rumour which has seemi🐼ngly become a viable option is that Gasly willღ leave AlphaTauri for Alpine.
Pierre Gasly caught saying “I’m still working in the final details for the contract”.🦄 Now, is he playing too much or are we ab🌊out to see the GasMan at a new team?
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“I’m still work꧙ing on the final detail𝔍s of the contract,” Gasly was overheard saying at last week’s F1 Belgian Grand Prix in footage captured by Ferrari's YouTube channel.
Fernando Alonso will leave Alpine for Aston Martin for the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 2023 season, creating a vacancy which was originally intended for Oscar Piastri. But he is trying to secure a move to McLaren, amid a ruling from the Contracts Recognitio♕n Board, to replace Daniel Ricciardo.
Ricciardo was🧸 linked to Alpine, who he represented when the team was known as Renault, but their first-choice has now emerged🌠 as Gasly.
If Gasly moves to Alpine, it would give the French team an all-French driver line-up. Esteban 🐲Ocon is already contracted.
Gasly and Oco𓂃n do not have the best person🔯al relationship, though.

AlphaTauri, the sister team to Red Bull, have Gasly contracteℱd for 2023 so would require a pꦺay-off to release him.
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner toldꦦ Sky about releasing Gasly: "Pierre is still a Red Bull Racing contracted driver until the end of next season. But of course we'🎃ve got a contract with Checo Perez for the next couple of years. Max Verstappen is on a long term contract.
"We𝔍 have to consider all possibilities. Of course until they fix what is going on with the contract recognition side, everything else is just purely speculative."

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from Am🐷erican sports, to football, to F1.