Lewis Hamilton has said that Pierre Gasly deserves the spotlight after he was treated unfairly last season. Gasly delivered a fairytale ending to an incident-filled race by becoming F1’s 109th different race-winner, with his against-the-odds triumph in the AlphaTauri coming little over a year after he was demoted to the junior team by Red Bull, just 12 races into his career with the front-running team.
“Firstly, Pierre is just a really nice guy,” Hamilton said. “I think he has a lot of talent and I don’t think he was necessarily treated fairly at Red Bull in the end when he got demoted. It’s not easy for a driver when that happens and so I empathise with that.”
“So then to build the confidence up in not as necessarily as quick a team and then to come around with some really great performances he’s had this year already with that car, and then to get himself a win, it’s not easy to do that,” he added. “Really impressed, I think he’s done a fantastic job and deserves the success. Hopefully, that creates an opportunity for him moving forwards. And he also beat the team that demoted him, so it’s definitely got to hurt for them.”
