Pierre Gasly: I hope our decisions will pay off in 2026.

      At an FIA press conference in Brazil, Pierre Gasly admitted that he's finding the end of the season difficult. Because of Alpine's decision to stop upgrading the A525 fairly early, the team is currently uncompetitive, but Pierre hopes the decisions made will pay off next year.

      Pierre Gasly: "I don't think we'll be more competitive at this track than at previous rounds. We fully understand our capabilities, but we still try to do our best every weekend. At Interlagos the weather can interfere with how things unfold — in the past we've already seen some crazy races here.

      The team knows that in terms of car speed we've taken a step back, since we stopped developing the car several months ago. But we're okay and we know there are four race weekends ahead in which we'll try to fight, and then we'll fully switch to next year's car project.

      In a way I feel like I'm sitting on two chairs. On the one hand, it's been very hard for all of us in the team this year because we're uncompetitive for reasons we know and because of the decisions that were made. But on the other hand, we hope all these decisions will pay off in 2026. I believe that.

      I can see the work on the new car progressing. Everyone is giving their all, everyone's hugely motivated, and that's great, but it feels like this season is lasting a very long time."