The paradigm of Alpine has completely changed in the second half of 2022. In August, Fernando Alonso announced that he would leave the Enstone team at the end of the season and the structure of Renault he launched himselfr Pierre Gasly to replace him and accompany Esteban Ocon.
Now, with a view to 2023 and Recognized the failures that led to multiple abandonments of the double world champion of Formula 1the French team wants to continue growing… but little by little.
Speaking to ‘Racer’, otmar szafnauerboss Alpinehas explained what the objective of those from Enstone is in 2023. From the beginning it was a plan of 100 races to win the World Cup… and there are still 80 to go.
“Next year we want to be one step closer to our goal of winning a World Cup, which is what we want to do in 100 races. Those 100 started from this year, so we have less than 80 left for us to do it“, has explained.
Alpine is aware that Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes They are still very far away… so he is satisfied with expanding his advantage with respect to McLaren Y Aston Martin: Lack of ambition or manifest reality?
“We are fourth in the World Cup, but the margin with fifth must be maintained in 2023 and we must also reduce the deficit with third. We need to be closer to third than fifth and even if we are fourth again, if we achieve that goal it would already be good progress for us“says Szafnauer.
At the same time, as explained by his counterpart at Aston Martin, Mike Krackthe objective of the British brand is to make a quantitative leap and outperform alpine with the aim of being able to ‘hunt’ the giants in 2024.