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 seemingly beco♔me a viable option is that Gasly will leave AlphaTauri for Alpiꦛne.
Pierre Gasly caught saying “I’m still working in the final details for the🍃 contract”. Now, is he playing too much or are we about to see the GasMan at a new team?
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“I’m still working on the final detail✨s of the contract,” Gasly was overheard saying at last week’s F1 Belgian Grand Prix in footaꦕge 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 Recognition Board, to replace Daniel Ri𝐆cciardo.
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 Ocon 🎀do not have the best personal relationship, thougꩵh.

AlphaTauri, the sister team to Red Bull, have Gasly contracted for 2023 so would require a pay-oꦿff to release him.
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner told Sky about releasing Gasly: "Pierre is still a Red Bull Racing contracted driv🅺er until the end of next season. But of course we've got a contract with Checo Perez for t🍃he next couple of years. Max Verstappen is on a long term contract.
"We have to consider all possibilities. Of course until they fix what is going on with th🍬e contract recognition side, everything else is just purely speculative."

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everythin🌜g from American sports, to football,ﷺ to F1.