There are new rumours regarding Nyck de Vries and Pierre Gasly.
After being in talks with a couple of teams it looks like Nyck de Vries is close to sign for AlphaTauri now. He is expected to replace Gasly in this case which is even more interesting. Because I wasn't expecting Gasly to be out of Red Bull programme completely. I thought that he would fight for a seat at Red Bull again. In addition, Gasly is the biggest candidate to have the available seat at Alpine in case AlphaTauri announce Nyck de Vries officially. Honestly I would rather replace Tsunoda instead of Gasly. Because I don't think that he has a bigger talent than Gasly. Gasly has been more successful than him in this season also.
When you have a team that is fighting for the middle spots, like be 4-5-6th spot, then you need younger drivers with the hope that you could build a better team in the future. Meaning, if Gasly was still there, AT would have hard time building around him, because by the time they have a good car he would be too old to keep dominating for a long time.
On the other hand when they get Nick, they are going to hope that in 3-5 years they will have a great car, and their driver could win many titles with it. As we all can see we do not expect them to be good right away, but look at Haas, they were bottom team until this year, always finishing 19th and 20th, and this year they got some points, nobody knows which team could get better eventually.