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alpine is already targeting car for 2026

Alpine lost in their way: 'How it could go so wrong? If only I knew'

2 June at 17:30
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  • Ludo van Denderen

With the 2023 car, Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon were barely able to break even. Alpine hoped for an improvement in '24, but for now the car has proved an absolute failure. At the French team, hundreds of people are now breaking down daily to ask: 'Where did it go wrong and how do we fix the car's problems?' The answers are not so easily found easily, according to Bruno Famin.

The team principal has also seen that the car got worse, not better, over the winter. How could that happen? "I am not sure, I'm super interested in knowing the answer to that question," Famin explained. "I'm looking ahead. I know where we are. We have the confirmation with [David] Sanchez [ed.: technical director]. We know where we want to go and how we go there. This is really the key point in the plan. And we are really focused on that. And again, having Sanchez on board now, will help us to go much faster in improving."

Alpine's focus soon to be 2026

The competition is not sitting still either. So while Alpine is playing catch-up, the gap to the rest may remain intact as other teams continue to develop. That makes it unclear whether all of Alpine's good intentions can actually be realised. In any case, Famin is confident that his team can be more competitive in '25.

"That's the plan. That's the goal. For sure. The timing is very short. I think what we want to do is really to be able to improve our current car quite quickly. To be able to switch the most part of the resources to the 2026 project from July. Because we know we are going to have the new technical regulation by that time. And we need to push hard in the very coming weeks and then to switch to the 2026 project," Famin said.