Anyone who witnessed the 2020 Italian Grand Prix will always have a small place in their heart for Pierre Gasly. There was a distinctly emotional edge to the AlphaTauri driver’s day of days as he crouched to sit on the top step of the Monza podium to compose himself and allow the sheer scale of his achievement to sink in. In the year since he had lost both the opportunity of a lifetime at Red Bull and his good friend, Anthoine Hubert, to a dreadful Formula 2 accident, Gasly had shown grit and guts – and now he had the glory. His victory was a milestone moment for Formula 1, for after seven long years in which the podium’s top step had been exclusively reserved for Mercedes, Red Bull...
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