BWT Alpine F1 Team officially announced that David Sanchez will be joining the French based team as Executive Technical Director. He will be responsible of the Performance, Engineering, and Aerodynamic areas of the team. The Frenchman started his motorsport career as a junior aerodynamicist at Renault F1 Team back in 2005 and has only…
The Chinese Grand Prix saw Alpine have a spare car available for the first time this season. At a time when Williams Racing lack of third chassis made global headlines, this was obviously encouraging news for fans of the French manufacturer. Not only this but for Esteban Ocon, his A524 had a new floor and…
Esteban Ocon started last weekend’ s F1 Chinese Grand Prix from P13 and would cross the finish line P11 and just 2.3 seconds from his first points of the season. A stark difference to how Alpine were performing at the start of the season with many pundits predicting the French manufacturer to be propping up…
It has been a tough season to date for Alpine as they do not have a single point in the bag. They brought a small upgrade at the Japanese Grand Prix to help with the weight issues. Alpine has been on the back foot since pre-season. But the Suzuka upgrades worked as expected. The Enstone-based…
There’s something every F1 fan can agree on: Alpine has been having a terrible season so far. From car issues in Jeddah that saw Pierre Gasly DNF on the first lap to being backmarkers the past four races, the Enstone-based team has been struggling. And according to Esteban Ocon, the Japanese Grand Prix was a…
It has been a tough beginning of the season for Gasly, with him and his team both not able to score even a point in the first three rounds of the season after an even harder off season marked by personnel changes and troubles with the new car project. The French driver looked back at…
Alpine has had an extremely difficult start to the year. After being in no man’s land and finishing in 6th place in the constructors’ championship last year despite 2 Grand Prix podiums, the French outfit hoped they could rise higher and compete for bigger points regularly. However, the team is in freefall, and they are…
Alpine has an underwhelming start of the 2024 season, to put it mildly. Completely off the pace in Bahrein the only reason they didn’t finish last was due to the misfortune of Logan Sargeant and Valtteri Bottas. A week later in Jeddah it wasn’t much better, as Pierre Gasly had to retire after one lap. Esteban Ocon managed to stay ahead of a few cars, but was helped by Kevin Magnussen severely dropping the pace to help his Haas-teammate Nico Hülkenberg.
Alpine has had a rough go in the first two races of the season. They have failed to score a point with their race winning driver duo of Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon, and the Enstone-based squad hasn’t made it out of Q1 either. Multiple departures of key technical staff leave the team in a…
Alpine driver Pierre Gasly said the team is undergoing “positive changes” despite the resignation from technical director Matt Harman and aerodynamicist Dirk de Beer. The French team had a rough start to the 2024 Formula 1 season after drivers Esteban Ocon and Gasly finished P17 and P18 respectively. Alpine expected degraded performance after introducing a…
