Method 1 driver Pierre Gasly buys shares in FC Versailles TERMAN WEBSITE

French Method 1 driver Pierre Gasly has bought shares in FC Versailles, studies L’Équipe.

The 28-year-old, who drives for Alpine F1 Workforce, is thought to be a passionate soccer fanatic and has bought shares alongside proprietor and president Alexandre Mulliez, inheritor to the Auchan grocery store empire, and Mulliez’s enterprise affiliate Fabian Lazare, each of whom took over the Yvelines membership for a sum of 1.5M€ final June. 

With expertise of excessive stage sporting efficiency and a ardour to succeed, Gasly is pushed to assist the membership, which at present performs within the Championnat Nationwide, the third tier of French soccer, construct for the longer term and ship success on and off the sector: 

“I’m obsessed with soccer. I observe all the outcomes and I performed myself once I was younger. In Normandy we now have FC Rouen, Quevilly-Rouen Métropole, Le Havre, Caen.. I performed for Bois-Guillaume. At the moment, I had trials for Auxerre as a baby throughout Man Roux’s tenure. I’ve at all times been on the earth of soccer.

I’ve wished to interact in an bold venture for some time. I saved myself knowledgeable of what’s occurring on this area and that’s how I met the Mulliez household. Alexandre had simply purchased FC Versailles 78 and introduced his venture to me. We sat on the desk and talked about he wished to develop the membership. We have now each mid time period and long run ambitions, over 5 years in addition to fifteen years. It’s a ardour, my second ardour after racing.

I’ll attempt to transmit my expertise in excessive stage sport, the calls for, mentality, teamwork, particular person efficiency, stress administration, the capability to outdo oneself each day.”

Not like different celebrities who put money into sport purely for egocentric causes, the Frenchman sees himself as a part of an even bigger image:

“It’s not my largest monetary funding, but it surely’s the one I really feel essentially the most emotionally invested in. It’s a ardour venture, to create one thing stable and sustainable when it comes to construction, for the ladies’s facet too. I hope we will attain Ligue 2 sooner or later, after which Ligue 1. It’s an thrilling venture. I at all times should be bold and concerned in a number of tasks. By way of the on a regular basis, my focus is 100% on Method 1, however I want different challenges in my downtime.”

Versailles at present sit tenth within the third tier, two factors away from the relegation zone. Gasly’s first object subsequently shall be for the staff to keep away from relegation. 

GFFN | Jack McArdle