Saturday turned out to be a difficult day for Alpine on the track. The team from Enstone faced a qualifying in Hungary that threatened with rain and left the track slightly damp. With 6 minutes left in the first session, the competitors headed to their garages as the rain began. The session was interrupted by…
It would not be an exaggeration to state that at the start of 2024 Formula One season Alpine appeared to be the slowest car of the grid. The Enstone-based team had wrapped up the 2023 Constructors’ Championship in a respectable P5, with multiple point scoring finishes and podiums with both their drivers. To find themselves…
Alpine’s 2024 campaign endured a difficult start that saw the Enstone-based team occupying the back of the grid. The poor start to the seasonled to the departures of Matt Harman and Dirk de Beer following the lack of competitiveness from the overweight A524. With the departure of the duo, Alpine gradually recovered lost ground with…
Esteban Ocon will partner Oliver Bearman at Haas next year and beyond as the Frenchman has signed a multi-year contract, Pit Debrief has learned. As this website revealed earlier in the year, Audi held an interest in his services. However, the number one priority continues to be Carlos Sainz for the German manufacturer as the…
Pierre Gasly’s run of consecutive points finishes is likely to end at the British Grand Prix this weekend. The 28-year-old has been in the points in the last four Grands Prix as the Enstone-based team has made slow progress since Bahrain. Even though we’re only at the halfpoint of the season, Alpine’s reliability issues have…
For a fourth successive Grand Prix, Pierre Gasly scored points as Alpine’s slow gains continue. Once again, however, a lot of the spotlight was on his latest episode with teammate Esteban Ocon. On lap 32, Ocon made a late but legal defensive move against Gasly. Three laps later, it got spicy. Ocon passed Alonso into…
Following two consecutive race weekends where he scored championship points, Esteban Ocon had to settle for 12th in Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix. Despite finishing outside the points, Ocon remains pleased with the team’s recent surge in form. Having qualified tenth for the main event, Ocon sets his eyes on Haas’ Nico Hülkenberg ahead of him….
Q1 Max Verstappen was first out of the pits and logged a 1:06.054 to kick things off, with Sergio Perez just under 0.2s away. A 1:05.941 from Carlos Sainz saw the Spaniard break the 66s barrier to go fastest. However, that was beaten by 0.040s seconds later by teammate Charles Leclerc. Norris and Piastri managed…
Carlos Sainz is still the hot topic on the drivers’ market as he’s considering all options for his future in Formula 1. He was recently being linked to Sauber or Williams, and now the talk is that Alpine came in with an offer that could be the dealbreaker for the Spaniard. Even though Sainz promised…
Ahead of the Austrian Grand Prix, BWT Alpine F1 Team confirmed that Pierre Gasly would continue with them on a new multi-year contract. This announcement, which comes less than a month after the team confirmed that they would be parting ways with Gasly’s teammate, Esteban Ocon, as well as that by Aston Martin F1 team…
