Isabela Pagliari, Lacoste and Pierre Gasly: The Perfect Trio

Isabela Pagliari meets Pierre Gasly in São Paulo

Most Formula 1 interviews stay on Formula 1. Isabela Pagliari had other plans.

Grand Prix week, Isabela style

It was São Paulo GP week, and Double Tap creator Isabela Pagliari joined Pierre Gasly, the BWT Alpine Formula 1 driver, and Lacoste, whose ambassador he is, for a conversation that was always going to go beyond the track. Isabela is a journalist and a presenter, and she’s a natural with a microphone, with the sharp questions we’ve come to expect. She conducted the entire interview in French.

Senna, in Brazil

You can’t talk about Formula 1 in São Paulo without Ayrton Senna, and Isabela made sure he had his moment. Gasly shared that he has admired Senna as a driver ever since he was a child, which made the city where it matters most the perfect place to talk about it.

Football always finds a way

With Isabela, football always finds its way back in. The PSG fan in Gasly had plenty to say about the Brazilian players who have worn the shirt, from Neymar and Thiago Silva to Marquinhos. Then came the best question of the lot: whose life would he swap with? In Brazil, there was only one answer: Ronaldinho, a PSG alumnus himself.

Where F1 and football meet

Two sports, one global audience, and the same appetite for personality-led storytelling.

The Isabela effect

Formula 1 may have been the occasion, but the conversation was pure Isabela: light, funny and sharp. It takes a special kind of interviewer to make Formula 1 and football feel like the same conversation, and she makes it look easy.