One of the teams that seem to have taken a step back from last season is Alpine. While they butted heads with McLaren and Ferrari in 2020, the season-opener in Bahrain indicated that those two have gained an advantage over Alpine. But the French team is not fretting; it’s because they have a bigger objective to look at.

Because of the FIA’s 2021 regulations, teams were required to carry most of their chassis from 2020. Though it wasn’t the best news for Alpine who feel that they reached their peak with the A521 challenger. However, there’s a silver lining in that.

Wholesome changes are set to be introduced next season, as part of the FIA’s plan to create a more breathtaking racing spectacle by trimming the gap between the teams. Hence, they plan to divert their attention and resources, like the other teams, on that.

Plan to build ‘the best ever car’ of the new 2022 regulations in place

Laurent Rossi, Newly-appointed CEO of Alpine, after it was rebranded from Renault proclaimed –

“What we want to do is carry on building on what we’ve done. We know we’ve more or less reached the end of this car anyway. So [we will] extract as much as we can out of this car, use this to fine tune the operations’ organisation and in the meantime make sure we build the best ever car for the next regulation era.”

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Alpine confident that their ‘new mayonnaise’ can work

After the departure of Renault Team Principal, Cyril Abiteboul, there have been widespread structural changes. The top brass opted against having a direct replacement for Abiteboul. Rather they now have three leaders in the team, Davide Brivio, Marcin Budkowski, and Rossi himself.

“The team in place now is a different set of people – not all of them – there’s tonnes of them that are very good but there’s a bit of change: Marcin came in, started to put his touch on the team; we hired a couple of high-profile engineers,” Rossi remarked.

“So very confident that this new mayonnaise will taste good next year.”

And it must. They owe it to Fernando Alonso to give him a car worthy of his talents. It would vindicate his return to the sport and since the critics of his age.

Why Renault Were Right in Parting Ways With Cyril Abiteboul