Gasly: I'm very different to the driver I was in 2019

Gasly won his first race with AlphaTauri at the 2020 Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix, the next season after he lost his seat at Red Bull, and he kept delivering impressive performance for the Faenza-based outfit, always mixing it up with the big boys on the grid.

He never hid the fact that he wanted to return to a top seat and Red Bull and believes he has morphed into a better driver that can handle that type pressure.

"Now, in 2022, I'm very different to the driver I was in 2019," Gasly said to RacingNews365.com. "I have more experience, I know more what I need from the team around me, from the car, what works, etcetera.

"I'm clearly a more complete driver. I guess, in the next three years, I'm also going to be even more complete," he added.

Gasly went on: "You've got to understand that it's not like any other sport, where you practice every single day – we actually don't practice much,

"I believe every year is making a difference in your approach, and the experience and the situation that you're facing, the problems that you're facing, and kind of makes you stronger and more complete as a race driver," he explained.

"Honestly, not really; it depends on the project that we have," was the 26-year-old's answer when asked he needs a change of scenery.

"I think what I want is just a project, a common project with the people that I work with, with a common target. The most important [thing] to me is to feel that we are all working in the same direction for a similar goal," he maintained.

Ultimately, the AlphaTauri driver expects the time to come, when he will have to discuss the future with the management at Red Bull.

"In the end, we will have the conversation [when it] will be the right time," he said. "This year is confirmed with AlphaTauri for the full season and I'm in a happy place here.

"Obviously, my ambition is to have a car that allows me to fight for better positions, but right now I'm focusing 100 per cent at giving the best to this team.

"That's what I did last year, that's what I'm going to do this season, and then we'll see what happens," Gasly concluded.

Gasly had a horrid weekend in Bahrain as his AT03 broke down and caught fire, but will be back in action this weekend in Jeddah for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.