It is that time of the year when the build for the upcoming season is in full swing. The Mercedes team launched their black beauty yesterday. George Russell took to Instagram to share his excitement for the black beast his team unveiled at the launch event. The picture had the Mercedes driver standing behind their 2023 challenger, The W14. While the launch was a successful one, and it seemed nothing could take the shine off of it, a reply served by Pierre Gasly left the fans flabbergasted.

George usually captures the limelight with his Instagram updates, and some shirtless pictures are usually sent to fans way now and then, but it was Pierre Gasly who took the center stage at Russell’s update following the W14 launch event. The Frenchman, referencing the black beauty, made a comment on Russell’s picture from the Silver Arrows launch event.

Fans couldn’t help but appreciate Pierre Gasly’s ingenuity

The caption on Russell‘s picture said, “Back to black. 🖤”. To which the Alpine driver replied in comments saying, “Once you go…”

The reference was what the fans needed to comprehend and appreciate Gasly’s humorous presence of mind. The F1 Twitter and Russel’s post on Instagram blew up, leaving fans in splits.

Given below are some of the replies to Gasly’s comments on the above post:

“yooo Pierre did him dirty 💀”

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“savage level: Gaslyyyyyyyyy”

“double it and pass it to the next person”

“……Black you never go back!!!!!! I got your back @pierregasly 😂🔥🔥🔥🔥”

While Gasly liking every possible post on Instagram is the talk of the town, fans now wonder if liking was a last-season thing and perhaps the Frenchman is upping his game to commenting this year.

“after “liked by pierre gasly” it has gone “commented hy pierre gasly”

“starting the season spicy I see 😂”

But nevertheless, the comment on the post caught everyone’s eye.

“wins comment on the day 🔥😂”

The F1 Twitter also soon followed suit to chime into the hilarity of the three-worded comment. Some fans still couldn’t believe that the ex-AlphaTauri driver really did that. Given below are some of the tweets and comments from Twitter:

But everyone had a blast in unanimity, seeing the chaos Gasly had unleashed.

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