It has become official, Red Bull has taken action on the issue of poor performance of Pierre Gasley. The young French driver has been demoted to Toro Rosso. He replaces Alexander Albon, the young Thai driver will be the one to take his seat in the big team due to his good results at Toro Rosso. This ends the rumors that Fernando Alonso could replace Gasly in these last races of the 1 F2019 season.
both have had inverted sports racing. On the one hand, Albon has surprised Toro Rosso this year, achieving good positions for the team. While the Red Bull that is to be close to the podium or to achieve victories like those of Max Verstappen when Mercedes and Ferrari are not doing well, the Frenchman was far from his partner. The Red Bull leaders were not happy that one of their cars was fighting with McLaren, Sauber or Renault… And that has ended up forcing them to make this decision in which they exchange seats.
This is not the first time Red Bull has done something like this. they did it with the Russian Daniil Kvyat. The same one who has now returned to occupy a Toro Rosso seat when he was demoted from Red Bull to Toro Rosso and then ended up being fired due to his poor results. Now it's up to Gasly and be careful, because if his performance at Toro Rosso is not good, they could end up replacing the driver and leave him out of F1 for 2020. Although it is true that the pressure at Toro Rosso will not be like at Red Bull nor will the partner be the same and should stand out more.
In fact, Red Bull has already warned that is on trial for 2020, like Alexander Albon, who will also be under scrutiny for the next 9 races to determine if he should continue at Red Bull or not. By the way, as for the date for this exchange to take place, it will be from now on. The first race after the summer break will be the Belgian GP, in Spa they will already be swapped.