Gasly currently sits sixth the Drivers Standings with 66 points while his former team-mate Max Verstappen sits third with 181 points, which included being lapped a few times by Verstappen this season and outperform by his former team-mate meant Red Bull has taken the decision to drop Gasly in favour of Albon from the Belgian Grand Prix onwards.
Albon will join Max Verstappen at Red Bull, while Gasly will partner Daniil Kvyat at Toro Rosso, where Kvyat has previous experience with the team back at the end of the 2017 and 2018 season with best results of fourth place finish at the 2018 Bahrain Grand Prix.
Overall, happy for Alexander Albon and completely gutted for Pierre Gasly, in general he was no where near fast enough then Verstappen throughout the season it was the perfect excuse for Red Bull to replace him with Albon and demote Gasly back to Toro Rosso and ease the pressure off for Gasly.
Although a wee bit surprise it was not former Red Bull driver and current Toro Rosso driver Daniil Kvyat did not got promoted to the drive with his recent third place finish at the German Grand Prix and outperformed Albon this season and his previous experience with the Red Bull team back in 2015 in-which he is much liked inside the team.
Final thought is this its a great opportunity for Alexander Albon to shine at Red Bull as for Pierre Gasly I don't think he will get sacked at the end of the season at the Red Bull operation as there is no Red Bull Junior drivers to promote unless Jüri Vips wins or heavily challenges the Formula 3 tile this season and then his 2020 drive may be in jeopardy then.
I don't think this will be the last driver change in Formula 1 this season.
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