Alpine’s 2022 season can be looked at as a glass half full or half empty, as the team managed to hold off a late advance from McLaren for fourth place in the championship, but also faced a whole host of reliability issues. Fernando Alonso alone was forced to retire from six races in 2022, causing
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AlphaTauri’s failures in 2022 were catastrophic, falling from sixth place in 2021 with 142 points to ninth place this year with just 35 points. Pierre Gasly and Yuki Tsunoda were not given a car under the new regulations capable of challenging for points on a regular basis, rarely making it through to Q3 sessions, where
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While Alpine secured the best of the rest title in the constructors’ championship, they will be disappointed to not have seen one of their drivers stand on the podium at least once in 2022. Fernando Alonso was forced to retire from an astounding six races last season, while his teammate Esteban Ocon also failed to
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Alpine have been on a steady rise since the re-brand of Renault at the start of 2021, with the team securing fifth and fourth place finishes in their first two seasons in the sport. A driver pairing of Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon had proved a formidably but toxic partnership in their two years together
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Alpine’s driver line-up in 2023 will hopefully be a lot more of a harmonious one than the partnership they harboured this year, with Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon becoming involved in numerous spats with each other over the course of the season. Alonso made repeated jabs at his teammate in the media, claiming that he
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2023 will be the first year since 2014 that Pierre Gasly hasn’t been supported by the Red Bull family, with the Frenchman having spent virtually his entire motorsport career so far backed by the Austrians. Gasly was inducted into the Red Bull Junior Academy in December 2013, meaning he was supported from 2014 onwards, until
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Alpine will have an all-French driver line-up in 2023 after a complex domino effect involving Fernando Alonso, Oscar Piastri and Pierre Gasly saw the latter driver freed from the Red Bull system to race for the French team. The team initially wanted to replace the Aston Martin-bound Alonso with their young driver Piastri. However after
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After three seasons of strong progress, the new aerodynamic regulations weren’t the kindest to AlphaTauri, who tumbled down the order in the Constructors’ Championship. Following a podium in each of the last three seasons, the Faenza-based team came close to hitting rock bottom in the standings, after ending the year in ninth. Both Pierre Gasly
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With Alpine having sealed fourth in the 2022 Constructors’ Championship, the Enstone-based team are quickly turning their attention to 2023, a year which will see the side have an exciting all-French line-up. The issue for Alpine is that the partnership of Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly is exciting for all the wrong reasons, with the
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2022 has certainly been an eventful year for motorsport’s governing body, with the FIA having an incredible amount to review with everything that has gone on this season. Topics like the budget cap and most importantly, the penalty points system are likely to be top on the FIA’s agenda, with George Russell having called for a “review” into
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