2026 is a decidedly special year forAlpine from a sporting point of view: for the first time in its history, the team is in fact contesting race weekends no longer with the power units of Renault (which holds the majority shares of the team with 74%), but with those Mercedes. The unprecedented relationship with Brackley, however, could become even closer not only for purely technical, but also financial reasons.
Yes, because the Anglo-German team is in open negotiations with Alpine for detect 24% of quotas of the latter that belong to Other Capitalprivate equity firm. The first rumors had focused on a personal operation carried out by the Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff or by Christian Horner, former Red Bull team principal, but the presence of both potential buyers was directly denied Flavio Briatore.
The CEO of Alpine, during a press conference, in fact underlined that the negotiations are with the Mercedes team, and not with Wolff: “Every day is a new situation, you never know what will happen next – explained Briatore – However, I know that there is an ongoing negotiation on the part of Mercedes, not with Toto, but with Mercedesand we’ll see. We currently have three or four potential buyers. Don’t forget that we’re talking about the Otro share, not Alpine. This is the share held by the hedge fund, it’s called Otro, an American fund, which wants to sell it at 24%, and there are several candidates ready to conclude the deal”.
A purchase attempt that doesn’t even involve Briatore, as the CEO himself wanted to point out: “I’m just watching. I’m just watching what happens and I just monitor the situation. We have no contact with Otro. If someone buys the share, we are very happy.”
