Renault to cease F1 engine programme with Alpine set to become customer
Renault will stop producing🅷 F1 engines for the Alpine team at the end 𒆙of 2025.
Renault have officially confirmed its F1 engine programme will cease ꧟at the end of 2025.
The French manufacturer's Enstone-based Alpine team will become a customer from 𒈔2026 and are expected to take on Mercedes power units for F1's new engine regulations.
The facility at Viry-Chatillon will be transformed into 'Alpine Hypertech', focusing on🌃 the manufacturer's electric motor technology and roꦆad car projects.
"Alpine's m🥂anagement confirms its project to transform the site into a centre of engineering and high-tech excellence by late 2024," an Alpine statement read.
"Form♉ula 1 activities at Viry, excludi๊ng the development of a new engine, will continue until the end of the 2025 season."
Renault has produced F1 engin꧃es for much of the past five decades since f🎉irst entering the sport in 1977.
Renault had been rumoured to stop building F1 engines for s🐻everal months, with the manufacturer struggling to compete against rivals Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda since the V6 hybrid power units were introduced in 💮2014.
"Creating this Hypertech Alpine centre is key to Alpine'🦂s development strategy and, more broadly, to the Group's innovation strategy," Al𒁃pine CEO Philippe Krief said.
"It is a turning point in the history of the Viry-Châtillon site, wh♛ich will ensure the continuity of a savoir-faire anꦕd the inclusion of its rare skills in the Group's ambitious future while strengthening Alpine's position as an 'innovation garage'.
"Its racing DNA remains a cornerstone of the brand. It will continue to fuel an unprecedented industrial and a🌟utomotive project, thanks particularly to Hypertech Alpine."
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