F1: Alpine Recycla for the 2025 season

The French team will use this year the same chassis of 2024 and points all its cannons to the 2026 season, which will arrive with change of regulations.

The 2025 season will be transition for all Formula 1 equipment. It is that by 2026 the technical regulations will change and the category will premiere new cars and engines. But, of course, there is still a World Cup to be played, which will have its preseason next week in Baréin and will begin in Australia on March 16. For some teams, such as McLaren and Ferrari, it will be the chance of being able to achieve double crown. Red Bull will want to continue at the top with his star pilot, Max Verstappen. However, not even these three teams will stop thinking about 2026, in fact, Frédéric Vasseur, director of La Rossa, has already warned that this year’s chassis updates will arrive early in the tournament, because you have to focus on 2026. In the case of Alpine they did not hesitate: they will recycle the chassis of 2024.

The first sign was when the French team published in its networks an image that said A525-05, that is, the fifth evolution of chassis. Undoubtedly it is the 2024 A524 with an improvement for this year. With the reuse of the car of the last World Cup, Alpine sought to lower the costs and aim everything directly to 2026, the year that the subject based in Estone will have a huge change: it will become a client of Mercedes. The French will carry engine, gearbox and rear suspension that will provide the German brand.

Alpine aims to remain among the five in the 2025 Cup of builders, after having finished sixth in 2024. Of course, the great jump was thanks to the enormous performance of the San Pablo GP, under the flood of Interlagos, which mixed everything And he closed with double French podium, with Esteban Ocon, second, and Pierre Gasly, third. Of the 65 points that added in the year the Team led by Oliver Oakes, 35 arrived from Brazil. The improvement of the A524 in the final stretch of the tournament, added to the evolution by 2025 lights the Illusion doors inside to meet the objective of climbing a position. Although he will face Teams that did change his car …

“Reducing the difference with the four leading teams is unrealistic. Being the best in the average group must be our goal. But Flavio Briatore (Executive Advisor) wants to win. Although the times have changed since their F1 debut, I assure you that its Commitment and motivation are still intact, “said Pierre Gasly During the joint presentation that the category organized in London. If it were for me, the entire budget of the 2026 would allocate. We have to see the new regulations as a great opportunity, and I want to be in front. We have already decided which budget we will use this year and the improvements that we will introduce in the car. We have a clear and defined plan, ”he added.

Meanwhile, Jack Doohan, Gasly’s partner, said: “It is really difficult to say where we will still have yet on track. Obviously, we have worked on the simulator, but driving the real car is something completely different. Then it is next year. We know that it will be a great opportunity and we want to sit down good bases to achieve the goal that we all have clear in the team. “

Luca de Meo, CEO World Renault, looked for Briatore to put a hand in the areas that he considers relevant and revalue the team. “When I arrived in Estone, my first impression was that it was a group of people a cars. And they didn’t care if it was fast or slow. It was a job. Now, you see the difference, there is passion. Last night I was in the factory until 11.30 at night and there were 80 or 90 people there. He was a racing team again, “said the Italian.