Alpine F1 team principal, Oliver Oakes, is discovering that the change he wants within the team can’t happen as quickly he needs. Having taken over the reins at Alpine, Oakes heads up a team that’s been plagued by inconsistency, sitting in 9th place in the Constructors’ Championship, and he has a lot of work to…
Ahead of the new engine regulations for 2026, Alpine F1 Team, who were historically known as Renault have pulled the plug on the development of their own engine. Instead the team will switch over to Mercedes engines when the new regs are introduced, something that has been met with severe backlash by those who were…
Pierre Gasly has seen happier times in Formula 1. The Alpine driver finished 17th during last weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix, but if wasn’t for Daniel Ricciardo’s stop for the fastest lap he would have been last. And coming off a 18th starting position, that meant there were very little highlights for the Frenchman during the…
Coming into the 2024 F1 Academy season, Doriane Pin was one of the favorites to potentially win the Drivers’ Championship. Now, six races later and with the last two rounds ahead of us, the Mercedes driver sits second in the overall standings. Though the chance to catch the leading Abbi Pulling is slim, Pin has…
Abbi Pulling’s domination of the all-female series showed once more in Singapore, where the English driver supported by Alpine placed on the top of the sheets in the practice session, took double pole and then won both races. With one hand on the Drivers’ Championship trophy already, Pulling can now rest after another brilliant performance…
There was more pain for Alpine as Pierre Gasly was thrown out of the qualifying results for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix as the Frenchman’s car exceeded the fuel mass flow during the session. It was bitterly disappointing for the 2020 Italian Grand Prix winner. He was a brilliant P4 in Q1, outpacing the likes of…
Ahead of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix this weekend, in only his third race in charge of Alpine, Oliver Oakes spoke Friday morning on some of the changes that will be made and challenges that could arise as the season comes towards its end. With there only being eight races left of the longest season on…
Pierre Gasly credits “great start” as the Frenchman takes home two valuable points for Alpine from last weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix. Following a surprisingly strong performance during the Dutch Grand Prix, helping Alpine to close the gap to Haas in the constructors championship, Pierre Gasly was on high. An impressive turnaround from Friday saw Gasly…
Pierre Gasly tops a shortened FP3 as Sargeant brings out a 40 minute red flag period following a high speed crash at turn 4. First to hit the track under the heavy rain was Nico Hulkenberg in the Haas, followed by teammate Kevin Magnussen and Kick Sauber’s Valtteri Bottas. All three drivers returned to the…
Flavio Briatore has made headlines once again with comments on the future of Fernando Alonso beyond his current contract with Aston Martin, and for detailing his own return to Alpine, after a rather “turbulent” call from Renault CEO Luca de Meo. After leaving F1 following the ‘Crashgate’ scandal at the 2008 Singapore GP, Briatore made…
