Former High Gear and The Grand Tour host Jeremy Clarkson has promised the entire Alpine System 1 staff a Hawkstone beer if Pierre Gasly wins the Italian Grand Prix.
Gasly topped Saturday’s qualifying session at Monza, securing his maiden pole place for Sunday’s race.
Clarkson, whose Diddly Squat Farm in Chipping Norton is located near Alpine’s Enstone headquarters, rapidly reacted to the milestone second. Posting on X, the Clarkson’s Farm presenter made a public promise to the staff.
“Proper. Pierre Gasly. No stress however should you translate that pole right into a win, the entire staff will get a Hawkstone. Go Chipping Norton staff,” he posted.
It continues a development of Clarkson publicly backing his “native” F1 staff. Within the 2023 season, he tweeted throughout the Monaco Grand Prix that he would purchase all the Alpine staff a pint if Esteban Ocon secured a podium end. When Ocon efficiently completed third, Clarkson honoured his finish of the discount. He personally drove his Lamborghini tractor to the Enstone manufacturing facility, delivering a trailer laden with 1000 bottles of his Hawkstone beer to the employees.
Gasly’s efficiency at Monza, the identical circuit the place he claimed his maiden grand prix victory for AlphaTauri in 2020, got here as a shock in a season that has up to now been dominated by Mercedes.
Jeremy Clarkson, Alpine F1 Group
Photograph by: Sam Bagnall / Sutton Pictures through Getty Pictures
“I acquired numerous feelings, so I am simply extraordinarily joyful for the entire staff. I am extraordinarily pleased with our efficiency. It has been 9 years I am in System 1, attempting to offer my finest completely each single weekend,” Gasly defined within the post-qualifying press convention.
“It isn’t each time we get a automobile to struggle for pole place, and right now it was the case. I am actually, actually joyful, actually proud to have seized this opportunity and make it work. It was a heck of a lap.
“We have been on it because the first lap in Q1. It has been feeling good. I received my first win right here in Monza, and now I get my first pole place, so undoubtedly a particular place to me.”
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