Alpine have denied “false” experiences suggesting that Renault is contemplating promoting the Enstone-based F1 workforce.
Motorsport had reported on Wednesday that guardian firm Renault may think about affords to promote the F1 workforce “on the situation that any new proprietor would proceed to make use of Renault engine energy for the foreseeable future”.
Nonetheless, in a press release equipped to Crash.internet, Alpine have moved to dismiss options of a attainable sale.
“The rumours and tales concerning the workforce being on the market are false,” a workforce spokesperson mentioned. “The workforce is categorically not on the market.”
Alpine have endured a horrible begin to the 2024 F1 season and are rooted to the underside of the constructors’ championship, having failed to attain a single level to this point.
The Anglo-French squad seems to have the least aggressive automobile on the grid, with Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly ending a lowly fifteenth and sixteenth on the Japanese Grand Prix.
Neither driver has been in a position to register a end larger than thirteenth throughout the opening 4 races in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Australia and Japan.
It has been an extremely turbulent 12 months or so for Alpine, with CEO Laurent Rossi, workforce principal Otmar Szafnauer, sporting director Alan Permane and technical director Pat Fry, all leaving.
Following Alpine’s poor begin to 2024, the workforce reorganised their design division following the double resignation of technical director Matt Harman and head of aerodynamics Dirk de Beer on the Bahrain Grand Prix.
Present workforce principal Bruno Famin has admitted Alpine’s efficiency is “not acceptable” for a works F1 workforce.
