Growing up with Leclerc, Champions League dreams and Alesi’s advice – Getting to know the real Pierre Gasly

How many languages can you speak? And are there any others you would like to learn?

I try to speak one very well, which these days is becoming difficult, because I’m French but I speak more English in my life. I speak French, English, Italian, basic Spanish, like school level Spanish, a few words in Portuguese… I’ll say three quite fluently and two others where I get my way around Spain. I can order beers in Spain and they understand me!

What’s your favourite film and TV show of all time?

I used to love Harry Potter when I was a kid. It’s like that sort of magic stuff behind it, and it really felt like it took me into a different world, which was quite pleasing. These days, I just get on a series and I love it. Actually, the one on Michael Jordan [The Last Dance], I absolutely loved it, because it was a mix of raw footage from back then with interviews from more recent [times], where he tells more his side of the story that he couldn’t really tell at the time. I’ve been always a big fan of MJ, so probably that series is my favourite.

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What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?

The best advice… I’d probably say I remember Jean Alesi, he told me in karting back then just to go step by step. You obviously always dream big and always look very far away in terms of ambitions and where you see yourself, but he was like, ‘Before looking at the outcome and the end goal, be really focused on the present and focused on what’s now. Once that’s done, then it’s the next step and what you’ve got to do to make the best of that next step. Ultimately, you’ll get to the place you want’.