Gasly gives Alpine ambitious top-five goal for 2025 F1 season

Pierre Gasly has set a bold target of a top-five finish for Alpine in the 2025 Formula 1 constructors' championship.

Alpine endured a difficult campaign last year, partly down to its A524 car being overweight at the start of the season. The team languished in ninth place until its position in the standings was substantially boosted by a double podium finish in Brazil, which vaulted it to sixth.

In no small part thanks to the Interlagos result, Alpine was the fifth highest-scoring team after the summer break in 2024, and when Autosport asked Gasly about his hopes for the upcoming season at this week's Autosport Awards, the Frenchman was just as ambitious.

"I'll go with a top five in the constructors', because that's what I want and I think that's definitely achievable," Gasly confidently answered.

"Obviously deep inside me I'd like more than that, but I've got to be objective and know that it's going to be a tight field, a competitive field, and I don't expect massive change compared to last year."

Pierre Gasly, Flavio Briatore, Jack Doohan

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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner would tend to agree with the expectation of a status quo in the pecking order, in the context of regulatory stability ahead of the 2026 technical overhaul.

Following a record-breaking 2024 season in which seven drivers took several grand prix wins each and four constructors claimed at least four victories apiece, Horner expects his own team and its usual rivals to be frontrunners again.

"I think it's going to be super tight. We're going to have four teams that are going to be super competitive," the Briton told Autosport at the Autosport Awards.

"Take your pick: McLaren is going to be strong, Ferrari is going to be strong, Mercedes is going to have something to prove as well. It could be a stellar year.

"It's going to be about marginal gains and getting the most out of every weekend. So Formula 1 is set to be the winner this year, and it's going to be a very open championship."