If Pierre Gazli is not given the opportunity to return to the Red Bull team, the pilot is likely to lose after the contract expires, Helmut Marco said.
He has spent most of his motoring career in Gazli in the Red Bull program. He made his F1 debut in 2017 and was promoted to Red Bull in 2019. After half a season, the team’s management decided that the Frenchman’s results were not high enough and he was sent back to Toro Rosso. Since then, the athlete has made significant progress, reaching several pedestals, but in 2020 he also won the race in Monza with AlphaTauri.
Many believe Gazli has earned a chance to return to Red Bull. Gerhard Berger, a former co-owner of Toro Rosso, thinks so. However, Serhio Peress, who has a contract until the end of the season, is currently playing for Red Bull.
“Gerhard is right, but at the moment we still have a contract with Cheko,” Red Bull adviser Helmut Marco said in an interview with Formel1.de. “We should compare the performance of these two pilots, and in the case of Cheko, it still has half a year left. We have an agreement with Gazli until the end of 2023, but it is already clear that if we fail to offer him a promotion, we will probably lose him. And that’s not what we want. “
Gazli makes no secret that his goal is to be back in the Red Bull.
“Right now, I’m focusing on showing my best performance, but I definitely want to be in a fast car that can fight for victories, and that’s the most important thing to me,” says Gazli. “I want to win in Formula 1, and I have to get a machine to do it.” We will talk to Helmut about this when the time is right. “
