Pierre Gasly does not believe that Alpine would benefit from another experienced driver in the form of Valtteri Bottas alongside him.<\/p>\n
Instead, he urges his Alpine<\/a> team not to bother with that \u201cnoise\u201d and \u201cfocus on the work ahead\u201d, as the Enstone squad battle to escape to escape the foot of the Constructors\u2019 standings<\/a>.<\/p>\n Is Valtteri Bottas to Alpine \u2018noise\u2019 they don\u2019t need?<\/p>\n F1 2025 is the final season of works team status for Alpine, but the Renault power era risks going out on a sombre note. The team has collected 19 points across the opening 12 rounds \u2013 all courtesy of Pierre Gasly \u2013 who scored just his and Alpine\u2019s third top 10 result of the season last time out at Silverstone, crossing the line in P6.<\/p>\n Meanwhile Jack Doohan, followed by Franco Colapinto, have failed to score in the sister Alpine, leading to speculation that Alpine could turn to 10-time grand prix winner Valtteri Bottas, who is currently Mercedes\u2019 reserve driver after losing his Sauber seat.<\/p>\n Gasly \u2013 considering he has done all the points scoring this year for Alpine \u2013 was quizzed on the Bottas rumours and whether he would be a handy benchmark for Alpine to place on the other side of the garage.<\/p>\n His response did not suggest a great deal of enthusiasm for the idea.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s the case,\u201d he responded, as per the Formula 1 website.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s a lot of noise. I think the car, I\u2019m showing every weekend what we can do with it, doing a very good job on Saturdays and putting it in places that on paper we all agree we should not really be.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just tricky, it\u2019s a very tight midfield and we are at the back of it. There will always be noise, especially considering what happened earlier in the year, but I think at the end of the day we should just focus on the work ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n And Gasly believes there is plenty of it to come.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a long season,\u201d he predicted. \u201cWe don\u2019t have upgrades, the car is not in the best place, but all of us need to focus on what we\u2019ve got to do and try and do it the best way that we can.\u201d<\/p>\n Latest F1 2025 head-to-head standings from PlanetF1.com<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc49\u00a0F1 2025: Head-to-head qualifying statistics between team-mates<\/a><\/p>\n