Alpine have one-half of their 2025 driver line-up decided after Pierre Gasly put pen to paper on a new multi-year extension, but his team-mate has yet to be revealed.
Alpine’s 2025 candidate list is ‘longer than three names’
Last month Alpine announced they’d agreed, by mutual decision, to part ways with Esteban Ocon after five seasons and one race victory with the Frenchman reportedly off to Haas.
As for who will replace him, that list was thought to be down to three drivers after Gasly called Mick Schumacher, Jack Doohan and Carlos Sainz “three great options”.
Sainz is Gasly’s preferred option for his 2025 team-mate as he admitted the Ferrari driver has the “added value of having a lot of experience and also experiencing strong teams”.
But, he added, Alpine reserve driver Doohan and WEC driver Schumacher are “both very talented, very fast, they both already included in the team, they know the guys”. They, he added, “fit very well”.
The two hopefuls, who have both made it knows they’d like to be the one to replace Ocon, took part in a test in the A524 at Le Castellet and impressed team boss Famin.
The test went well for both drivers, we have to be honest about that,” Famin told Sky Deutschland. “They both had a similar program and they did well. That’s great for both of them!”
