Pierre Gasly has revealed he was in the AlphaTauri race debrief when he missed a phone call from France’s President after his Italian Grand Prix triumph. Emmanuel Macron was phoning Gasly to congratulate him after he became the first French driver for 24 years to win a Formula 1 race, since Olivier Panis won the 1996 Monaco Grand Prix in similarly surprising circumstances. Instead of speaking to Gasly directly, the President left a voicemail message which the 24-year-old picked up after he had broken down the race with his colleagues in the AlphaTauri team. “It was a bit of a shock to me,” said Gasly in an interview with Auto Motor und Sport. “The President doesn’t call you every...
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