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The 2024 Formula One season is nearly upon us, with preseason testing on Feb. 20 and the opening Bahrain Grand Prix on March 2. It will be a season of transition for the sport, with Lewis Hamilton closing his peerless Mercedes career and 15 of the sport’s 20 drivers out of contract for 2025. One thing is for certain: F1 will look different in 2025 than it does today.
In advance of the new season, each of F1’s 10 teams is unveiling its livery, driver lineup and branding. We have already covered Haas, Williams and Kick Sauber; Now, three teams from the midfield — Alpine, VCARB and Aston Martin — are on deck for review.
Team: Alpine Renault
Drivers: Pierre Gasly (France) and Esteban Ocon (France)
Last season’s placement: Sixth of 10
Poor Alpine had an anonymous year in 2023. While every other team battled against its neighbors, Alpine simply plodded along in the middle — it finished on its own in sixth, with roughly 100 points separating it from its competitors in fifth and seventh. Alpine’s biggest battles in 2023 were internal, and the results of those battles will shape its 2024 campaign.
Alpine dropped controversial CEO Laurent Rossi and team principal Otmar Szafnauer in the middle of last season. It’s now led by former engineer Bruno Famin, whose goal is to spread technical excellence and a “daring” mentality through all levels of Alpine’s organization.
“Nobody was daring,” Famin said in December of Alpine in 2023. “What is sure now is that to be performant, with such level of competition, you need to use the potential of everybody.” (h/t: racer.com)
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