Helmut Marko accepts Pierre Gasly has no preferable option over remaining with AlphaTauri after Red Bull shut the entryway on a potential return by expanding Sergio Perez's Formula 1 agreement.
Once fantastic prix champ Gasly has an arrangement with AlphaTauri for the rest of 2023, and said recently that 2022 was likely his last opportunity to show he should have been elevated back to Red Bull, having been dropped to AlphaTauri during the 2019 season.
Since getting back to AlphaTauri, Gasly has developed as a driver and has driven the Faenza-based crew competently. He scored his lady F1 win with the group in the 2020 Italian Grand Prix, likewise taking platform in the 2019 Brazilian GP and 2021 Azerbaijan GP.
Following Perez's triumph in the Monaco GP last week, Red Bull declared a two-year expansion to the Mexican's agreement that will keep him at the group basically for the rest of the 2024 season.
The choice means Gasly will have no choice to get back to Red Bull when his ongoing arrangement terminates.
Yet, that's what marko figures, regardless of whether Red Bull chose to allow Gasly to go before the finish of his agreement, the Frenchman wouldn't track down a superior seat.
"Prior to the marking, obviously, I addressed Gasly, made sense of the circumstance for him and, indeed, we'll simply need to see what occurs with Gasly after '23," Marko told Motorsport.com's German language sister site Formel1.de.
Inquired as to whether Red Bull could need to let Gasly go before, Marko said: "What might be the other option?
"I don't think there is any option for him right now that would be altogether better compared to AlphaTauri."
Marko said all things considered, AlphaTauri would wind up holding both Gasly and colleague Yuki Tsunoda one year from now, with Red Bull youngsters standing by longer for a potential opening.
"It's probably correct that the ebb and flow drivers are set," Marko added.
"However, I mean, we actually have with Covid humming in the room, so that implies substitution drivers can come.
"I don't trust anybody gets injured, however they'll all need to stand by one more year."
Gotten some information about the chance of setting one of Red Bull's youngsters in one more F1 group, Marko recommended the circumstance of F2 champion Oscar Piastri was a genuine illustration of how hard it is for more youthful drivers to track down accessible spaces on the flow network.
"You can see with Alpine how hard they are battling with Piastri," he said.
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