Red Bull: Alexander Albon to replace Pierre Gasly
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Red Bull will replace French driver Pierre Gasly with Alexander Albon for the rest of the season.
Thai Albon, 23, has been promoted from the team's sister outfit Toro Rosso, with Gasly going the other way.
Gasly, 23, is sixth in the championship with 63 points. Team-mate Max Verstappen is third with 181.
Red Bull say they will "use the next nine races to evaluate Alex's performance" and make a "decision as to who will drive alongside Max in 2020".
In Gasly's last outing in Hungary - the final race before a mid-season break - he finished sixth and was lapped by Verstappen, who finished second behind championship leader Lewis Hamilton.
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said after the race: "Pierre really needs to take some time out during the break, reflect, and take the lessons into the second part of the year.
"We desperately need him realising more of the potential of the car."
The next race takes place at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium on 1 September.
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The best drivers end up in the best cars because they are the best drivers. The people who own the best cars are probably slightly better at choosing who those drivers are than Dave down at Wetherspoons (other awful pubs are available).
You're welcome.
Really curious how Albon will perform...
...it will tell a lot about Gasly and/or Verstappen.
If you're good enough, you're old enough.
Feel sad for Gasly who is a good guy.
"the sooner MB ditches Hamilton, and puts Ocon into that seat the better"
Of all the absurd comments that one finds, across all sorts of HYS threads, this has to be the most foolish I've read. so much so that it made me laugh.
Stop being bitter. Try and improve your life. Xx
Lewis replaced by The Canadian "Spoilt Boy!??!"
You should be doing stand-up in Edinburgh with lines like that.
You are only posting here because of School holidays, N'est pas?
"Yeh I know that but Albon as just been awarded another 72 points"
No he hasn't. Albon and Gasly will not swap their points. A driver's points stay with them, not the car / team. Albon hasn't gained any points with the switch, nor has Gasly lost any.
Kvyat should have been promoted back up. The only reason he wasn't is due to Helmut Marko's childish inability to admit he was wrong.
Having said all this I hope Albon does well, I just feel he probably won't do much better than Gasly.
" Ham scored 280/300 possible win points or 83%
Bot scored 188/216 possible 2nd place points or 87%.
Statistically, for what the team expects from them, Bot is a more successful drover than Ham."
After 12 races the maximum points available is 312 (12 x 25 + 12 for FL).
Ham has 250 / 312 = 80.1%
Bot has 188 / 312 = 60.2%
Both have the team and the same car.