The objective is clear for the French team, 4th in the constructors’ championship last season: “we want again, and at least, to finish 4th”, assured the general manager of the brand, Laurent Rossi. It is with the A523, the car that the Normans Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly will drive, that the team now intends to ensure “more arrivals, fewer retirements, more points, and perhaps more podiums” to get closer to the Red Bulls, Ferraris and Mercedes, dominant last season. In 2022, “the gap with the third (Mercedes) was quite large and we have to close it”, he abounded.
Alpine, whose only podium was in 2021, has set itself the goal of fighting for victories by 2024. “This climb to the top is a marathon, not a sprint,” Rossi recalled. “It will take time but we have given ourselves more or less five years, or 100 races. We were 5th in 2021 (in the constructors’ championship, editor’s note), 4th in 2022. Naturally, we are now aiming for the first places”, a- he continued during the presentation of the Alpine 2023 from London.
England-based team
The French brand has indeed unveiled its new single-seater during a presentation organized on English soil, because if the Alpine brand is from Dieppe in Normandy, the team is based in Enstone in England, for the chassis, and in Viry-Châtillon ( Essonne) for the engine part.
Mainly blue with touches of pink, the color of its title sponsor BWT, the A523 will be almost entirely pink for the first three GPs of the season (Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Australia), an even stronger testimony to the group of Austrian water treatment.
Last team to present its single-seaters
As for the teams, if no change is to be noted on the side of the management of the French team, among its pilots, the 2023 vintage marks the arrival of Pierre Gasly, who came straight from AlphaTauri, stable’s little sister Red Bull, constructors’ world champion.
The French team was the tenth and last team to present the 2023 version of its single-seaters.