TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has promised all the Alpine System 1 workforce a Hawkstone beer if Pierre Gasly wins the System 1 Italian Grand Prix.
Gasly got here out of nowhere to stun the paddock, inflicting one of many largest F1 upsets of current instances by beating George Russell’s Mercedes to the quickest time in qualifying at Monza, claiming his maiden pole place.
The 30-year-old edged out Russell by simply 0.060 seconds to develop into the primary French driver to begin from pole since Jean Alesi in 1997, coincidentally, additionally at Monza – marking Alpine’s first F1 pole in 17 years.
Jeremy Clarkson makes beer promise
Clarkson, former Prime Gear and The Grand Tour host, has given Alpine an additional incentive to assert its first win since 2021 by providing the entire workforce a Hawkstone beer.
Clarkson’s Diddly Squat Farm in Chipping Norton – made well-known by the Amazon Prime sequence Clarkson’s Farm – is close to to Alpine’s Enstone base in Oxfordshire.
“Proper. Pierre Gasly. No stress however should you translate that pole right into a win, the entire workforce will get a Hawkstone. Go Chipping Norton workforce,” Clarkson wrote on X.
Gasly is headed for a full-circle second right here in Monza, along with his sole F1 victory coming on the 2020 Italian Grand Prix for AlphaTauri.
“I’m extraordinarily pleased with our efficiency,” Gasly mentioned after securing a milestone F1 pole on Saturday.
“It’s been 9 years I’m in System 1, making an attempt to provide my greatest completely each single weekend and it’s not each time we get a automotive to battle for pole place. Right now it was the case and, yeah, I’m actually, actually joyful, actually proud to have seized this opportunity and to make it work.
“It was a heck of a lap. We’ve been on it for the reason that first lap in Q1, it’s been feeling good. 9 years ready for that second, that feeling. I bought my first win right here in Monza and now I get my first pole place, so positively a particular place to me.”
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