ᯓ translation of excerpts from an interview of Pierre Gasly (available on Motorsport.com)
"It's true that we didn't really have the opportunity to say goodbye," Pierre Gasly confided on Tuesday in London, while Esteban Ocon had left Alpine for Haas prematurely, not participating in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. "I think that it was, when you think about it, the kind of story that we will find mind-blowing in twenty or thirty years. When we were told that it was impossible to get to F1, we both got there, in the same French team. It's a very beautiful story, with the podium in Brazil that will remain memorable."
"We proved that we were professionals," he insists. "Everyone told us that it would be a real mess with just the two of us in the team. But luckily there were two drivers like us, talented and motivated, because internal competition allows us to give our all, both of us. We never gave up, and if we managed to turn around a season that was very complicated last year, it's also partly thanks to the work we did together. We can be happy about that."