Pierre Gasly secures first career pole position at Italian Grand Prix

Before beating George Russell to pole position at the Italian Grand Prix, Pierre Gasly has revealed he also beat the Mercedes driver in a game of online chess.

Former Top Gear and The Grand Tour host Jeremy Clarkson has promised the whole Alpine Formula 1 team a Hawkstone beer if Pierre Gasly wins the Italian Grand Prix. Gasly topped Saturday's qualifying session at Monza, securing his maiden pole position for Sunday's race. Clarkson, whose Diddly Squat Farm in Chipping Norton is situated close to Alpine's Enstone headquarters, quickly reacted to ...Keep reading

Alpine's Pierre Gasly secured his first career pole position at the Italian Grand Prix, beating Mercedes driver George Russell to the top spot by just 0.060 seconds at Monza. In the first year of the new 2026 technical regulations, the season has largely been dictated by the frontrunning Mercedes pairing of Russell and current championship leader Kimi Antonelli. Gasly's result at Monza ...Keep reading

Alpine's Pierre Gasly has taken pole position in a sensational qualifying for Sunday's Italian Grand Prix.

Alpine's Pierre Gasly has taken pole position in a sensational qualifying for Sunday's Italian Grand Prix.

"I like this track," Gasly quipped as he steered his Alpine into parc ferme. Not into the usual enclosure for the rest of the pack, but towards the bollard indicating the number 1 on the Formula 1 grid. Six years ago, Gasly took his hitherto only career win in Monza at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, celebrating on a desolate podium overseeing empty grandstands. Not so on Saturday, where ...Keep reading

Alpine driver Pierre Gasly takes a stunning pole position at the Italian Grand Prix, ahead of Mercedes' George Russell.

Pierre Gasly pulled off a 1000-1 upset to claim pole position for the Italian Grand Prix ahead of George Russell.

Alpine driver takes first pole of his career Russell on front row, Hamilton fifth on grid Pierre Gasly claimed a shock pole position for the Italian Grand Prixat Monza, securing his first Formula One pole and the first for his Alpine team. In a tightly-fought contest the Frenchman just had the edge to take pole over the Mercedes of George Russell in second and the McLaren of Oscar Piastri in third. Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton were in fourth and fifth and the defending world champion Lando Norris in ninth. Although he took seventh place, the championship leader Kimi Antonelli will start on the last row of the grid having taken a full set of new engine components, with Mercedes opting to do so at Monza because of the ample scope for overtaking at the circuit. They are hopeful he might comeback to as high as fifth place while Russell will be intent on making back a decent haul of points against his teammate. Continue reading...

Alpine's Pierre Gasly stunned the top favourites on Saturday and took pole position for the Formula One Italian Grand Prix in one of the biggest surprises of the season so far. The French driver has had a tough weekend so far with the news that he lost his podium at the Monaco GP in June after McLaren won their appeal against the result on Friday.

On the scene of his maiden grand prix win, Alpine driver Pierre Gasly has written another chapter in his Formula 1 career by claiming his first-ever pole position for the Italian Grand Prix. In a thrilling Q3 shootout, Gasly trumped pre-session favourite George Russell by a mere 0.060s to deny the Mercedes driver a fifth pole of the year and take Alpine to the top of the timesheets. Russell ...Keep reading

Just 48 hours after the International Court of Appeal officially stripped him of his third-place Monaco finish, Pierre Gasly exacted the ultimate retribution on the track. The Alpine driver stunned the Formula 1 paddock on Saturday, securing a sensational pole…

On the scene of his maiden grand prix win, Alpine driver Pierre Gasly has written another guilt-edged chapter in his Formula 1 career by claiming his first-ever pole in Monza. In a thrilling Q3 shootout, Gasly trumped pre-session favourite George Russell by a mere 0.060s to deny the Mercedes driver a fifth pole of the year and take Alpine to the top of the timesheets. Russell had drawn first ...Keep reading

The Alpine driver shocks the frontrunners to take his first-ever Formula 1 pole position at the Italian Grand Prix

Alpine driver Pierre Gasly takes a stunning pole position at the Italian Grand Prix, ahead of Mercedes' George Russell.

Pierre Gasly felt he was "robbed" on Friday after losing his podium from June's Monaco Grand Prix but turned it around in the most remarkable fashion with pole position for the Italian Grand Prix.

Alpine driver Pierre Gasly earned a brilliant first-ever F1 pole position at the Italian Grand Prix, edging out Mercedes’ George Russell and McLaren’s Oscar Piastri in a pulsating Qualifying session around the Autodromo Nazionale Monza.

Pierre Gasly delivered a sensational performance to claim his first career pole position in F1 as the Alpine driver stunned the grid's usual frontrunners at the Italian Grand Prix.

Pierre Gasly was suitably delighted after the Alpine driver caused an upset to claim pole position for the first time in his F1 career during Saturday’s Qualifying session at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza.

The Alpine team have shared their reaction to Pierre Gasly’s pole position at the Italian Grand Prix.