The arrival of Franco Colapinto in the role of third pilot upsets the balance of the team before the street of the season. But the goal of Flavio Briatore is clear: to choose the best, to amaze and aim to win
“We understood what did not work inside the team, now that we have put everything in order we can work to improve ourselves.” Since last year Flavio Briatore entered the Alpine in the role of executive councilor things, for the French team in Formula 1, have changed quickly. Disorganization and lack of hierarchies, but also few ambitions in view of the future. An attitude that the Italian manager wanted to strongly modify, focusing on a “a way of working as a racing team” that was missing within the walls of the team. The improvements seen in 2024, however, are not enough and the objectives of Briatore are solid in view of the season at the gates and the future of the next few years in the top flight: “In 2025 the alpine must always be among the first six, perhaps fighting also for some podium. We have much more aerodynamic margin than McLaren and Ferrari. In 2026 we aim to compete for the podium in the middle of the granters of the championship and in 2027 we will have to be able to fight for the title “. Structured steps for a team that, at the beginning of last year, was dangerously among the last positions of the general classification.
Eye to 2026
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The Team Principal Oliver Okes, perfectly in line with Briatore’s expectations and goals, did not hide the team’s ambitions: “We want to be in the head group but we know that there are no miraculous solutions, we just have to make a better car”. However, the largest change for the Alpine will arrive in 2026, when the team will abandon the Renault engines to move on to the Mercedes Power Unit, a choice that will put the team in a further position of change in the year of the technical revolution of the top flight. The 2025 presents itself as a transition championship, in which the team will have to be able to develop the single -seater in the direction undertaken in the second part of the season, following the positive updates of Austin, without however neglecting the true goal of the near future: a car that can challenge the greats starting from 2026.
The unknown pilots
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In Melbourne, the French team will go down the track with the pair seen side by side for the first time in the Abu Dhabi 2024 Grand Prix when the Australian debutant Jack Doohan joined the Frenchman Pierre Gasly for the first time, replacing Esteban Ocon at the end of the year. Doohan, who in Australia will begin his first season as a starter, will however have on his shoulders the weight of those who have to demonstrate everything immediately, playing the dream of a lifetime in a few great prizes. During the winter break, in fact, the Alpine announced the engagement of the Argentine Franco Colapinto in the role of third pilot of the team. Briatore used words of great esteem to describe the pilot, formalizing an agreement with Williams – who with Colapinto had a existing contract – and thus highlighting the obvious intentions of future optic. Buying a pilot like the Argentine rookie, which in 2024 made his debut in Monza, showing off for talent and character, means guaranteeing sponsors, public and interest, considering the great cheering that South American enthusiasts immediately demonstrated against him. The first results of 2025 will serve Biatore and all his team for
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