Briatore: “We need to prepare the foundations to build the team. Renault and Alpine are busy”

The start of the championship After the 2025 season ended with very little satisfaction, the first three races of this world championship instead gave good results for Alpine, currently in fifth position in the Manufacturers’ world championship. From the Australian GP to the Japanese GP, Pierre Gasly has always achieved finishes in the points, with the top-10 also achieved by Franco Colapinto in China. A positive start therefore for the French company, which for the first time in its history took to the track without Renault engines, but with Mercedes ones. Future projects Renault itself and the entire team, moreover, seem intent on continuing their project in Formula 1 which began with the return to the Circus in 2016, which saw the only change in 2021, the year in which the team changed its name to Alpine. A desire that remains even with the potential sale of 24% of the Alpine share held by the US investment fund Otro Capital. The project to return to victory was not indicated precisely by Alpine’s Executive Consultant Flavio Briatore, but the answer provided by the 75-year-old is however indirect confirmation of his desire to remain in F1 also in the coming seasons, increasingly increasing the level of competitiveness: “It’s a very difficult question, I don’t know – he replied to the media – we try to do our best and improve from year to year. But now we have everything to be competitive. We are very happy with the engine we have and we are quite happy with the whole team. Of course, we have made a lot of changes to the team and we have to prepare the foundations, the cornerstone, to build the team. We want to win and we will see what happens.