French F1 driver Pierre Gasly has officially confirmed that he will be joining the Red Bull team in 2019. The 22-year old took to Twitter to confirm the news, followed later by a statement from Red Bull. With this, another piece of the 2019 F1 puzzle has fallen in place. Gasly will partner Max Verstappen in place of the outgoing Daniel Ricciardo. Here is how Twitter reacted to the news.
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Now that @PierreGASLY is out of @ToroRosso, who is to drive for the Italian team next year as there is nearly no more @redbullracing young drivers in the pipe? https://t.co/cq7GyDRlkz
— Matthieu Piccon (@RacingBizz) August 20, 2018
What? Gasly is evolving! https://t.co/RRsJsERqQQ
— WTF1 (@wtf1official) August 20, 2018
Pierre Gasly will be promoted to Red Bull Racing next year as Max Verstappen’s teammate. Full story soon.
— Jon Noble (@NobleF1) August 20, 2018
Aston Martin Red Bull Racing is delighted to announce that Pierre Gasly will join the Team from the beginning of the 2019 season, to race alongside Max Verstappen. #AMuS
— Tobi Grüner 🏁 (@tgruener) August 20, 2018
Amazing opportunity for Pierre Gasly to go to Red Bull. A year ago we were unsure if he'd have an F1 career but he's done a great job in his short time at Toro Rosso. A great talent with good knowledge of the Honda PU which will be handy for next year #F1
— Chris Stevens 🏁 (@ChrisOnRacing) August 20, 2018
Huge news for @PierreGASLY this evening as he's confirmed as a @redbullracing driver for 2019. Had the pleasure of chatting to Pierre at pre-season testing and he was very enthusiastic about the prospect of working with Honda in F1. https://t.co/u1wrkzMm0V
— Rob Watts (@robwattsf1) August 20, 2018
Yessss. Super happy with this promulgation of Pierre Gasly. He deserves it amply and will make Red Bull rise to the highest with Honda. Really excited to support Red Bull, Toro Rosso with Honda next year. 😉👊👍
— Bilal El Hannoufi (@BHannoufi) August 20, 2018
Red Bull have confirmed that Pierre Gasly will drive for them next season #F1
— Scott Rose (@srose93) August 20, 2018
Pierre Gasly to move up to @redbullracing next season! Glad he’s the one who got the seat
— Joel Martin del Campo (@padgerfan) August 20, 2018
so fucking happy for Pierre Gasly, I mean it was a no-brainer anyways, but so damn happy we have a new alpha good boy at Red Bull
— 🎄☃️hyly☃️🎄 (@HayleyMulch) August 20, 2018