BWT Alpine F1 Workforce gears up for its fourth season in Method 1 within the 2024 FIA Method 1 World Championship led by its dynamic, all-French driver line-up, Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly, for the second consecutive 12 months. The disclosing of the A524 Method 1 automotive marks a change in philosophy and strategy to the crew’s ambitions in Method 1, guided by Workforce Principal Bruno Famin with its technical groups led by Technical Administrators Matt Harman in Enstone and Eric Meignan in Viry-Châtillon.
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The A524 Method 1 automotive is a brand-new idea created for the subsequent two seasons. Modern options mark it on account of studying from earlier iterations. The daring strategy will permit the crew to use a extra strong growth path throughout the next two campaigns earlier than the unconventional change in technical laws following that.
For 2024, the crew is loyally supported by title associate BWT and its premium companions BP, Castrol, and Renault E-Tech. Because of this, the livery has been designed in collaboration with modern artist Felipe Pantone to deliver a recent and distinctive imaginative and prescient to the automotive design. Utilizing black as its core, the colors embody conventional Alpine blue, the predominant color for the marketing campaign, matched with the now world-renowned pink colors of BWT. The livery might be inverted to be pink-dominated at eight rounds of the 2024 season.
Esteban, Pierre, and the crew will tackle Method 1’s record-breaking 24-race calendar, which spans 11 months of the 12 months, covers 5 continents, begins in February in Bahrain, and ends in Abu Dhabi in December. The calendar additionally consists of the return to Shanghai for the Chinese language Grand Prix for the primary time since 2019.
Renault Group stays devoted to the Method 1 mission, buoyed by the valued assist of CEO Luca De Meo. Method 1 stays a vital pillar in ‘Renaultlution’ beneath the Alpine model, headed by CEO Philippe Krief.
Motorsport is the core of Alpine’s DNA, and the model’s dedication to racing is highlighted within the reality it’s the most concerned of any automotive firm in FIA racing classes, with a presence in Method 1, World Endurance, open-wheel racing and rallying.
Alpine, a model born from racing
Alpine’s historical past dates again to 1955, when Jean Rédélé, a younger man captivated with competitors, shaped the automotive model. Quick-forward almost 70 years, and Alpine is now on the forefront of motor racing, competing alongside the elite within the FIA Method 1 World Championship, the World Endurance Championship, and plenty of different motorsport disciplines.
The unique A110 highway automotive was launched in 1962, and by the early Nineteen Seventies, Alpine was a big power in top-flight rally competitors. In 1971, Alpine took the three steps on the rostrum of the world-famous Rallye Monte Carlo for the primary time and later once more in 1973. The corporate went on to win the World Rally Championship Producers’ title later that 12 months.
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Alpine achieved certainly one of its most well-known motorsport triumphs in 1978: victory on the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Full of this racing ardour and savoir-faire, the model launched new and modern highway vehicles all through the 70s and 80s, together with the A310 V6 and the GTA.
When Alpine’s relaunch in 2012 was introduced, a contest programme was born to develop the model’s consciousness. This dedication was underlined in endurance racing, which has loved quite a few successes on worldwide circuits.
Quick-forward to 2021, and Alpine took its first steps into the elite realms of Method 1 after Luca de Meo introduced the corporate’s determination to enter the sequence because the rebranded Alpine F1 Workforce.
In 2024, the model reiterates its dedication to Method 1, endurance, rallying, cup, GT, and the SimRacing sphere via Esports. The 2024 calendar is busy, punctuated by the FIA Method 1 World Championship, the World Endurance Championship, the FFSA GT4 European Sequence, the FFSA Championnat de France GT, and the Championnat de France FFSA des Rallyes, but in addition by buyer competitions organised by the model, such because the Alpine Elf Rally Trophy on the highway and the Alpine Elf Europa Cup on the monitor.
