Will the real Alpine please stand up? The start of the 2024 season was nothing short of a disaster. In the first four races of the season they didn’t record a single point. Alpine’s Pierre Gasly highest position was 13 and Esteban Ocon’s highest was 15. Technical director Matt Harman and head aerodynamics Dirk De Beer resigned after the Bahrain Grand Prix, the second race of the season.
At the Monaco Grand Prix in May Gasly and Ocon collided with Ocon clearly being an fault. Ocon had to retire but Gasly was able to recover from the collision and finish the car in tenth. In July it was announced that Alpine Team Principal Bruno Famin would leave his role and be involved in a different position in the Renault Group. Oliver Oakes was announced as the new Team Principal. Oakes is the third team principal at Alpine in 18 months.
There were positives to come out of the year. The biggest being the Sao Paolo Grand Prix with both drivers getting on the podium in the wet at Brazil. Gasly finished in the top four of the fives including top 5 on the streets of Las Vegas. He would finish in the top 10 in the drivers championship.
Gasly’s teammate Ocon had an indifferent year. Apart from his podium finish at Sao Paolo, Ocon only finished in the points in four races and was beaten by 19 points by Gasly in the drivers championship. In July, Haas announced that Ocon had signed a multi year contract with the team. Ocon was replaced by Australian Jack Doohan for the final race of the season.
Alpine announced that Doohan would partner Gasly at Alpine for the 2025 season and Argentinian Franco Colapinto would be the reserve driver. Colapinto replaced Logan Sargeant at Williams for the last nine races of the season. At First Colapinto impressed at Williams finishing in the top 10 in two of the first four races and just outside the points in the other two. There was speculation he could be the second driver at Red Bull.
Colapinto was unable to continue his fine form and wouldn’t finish in the points again. He crashed in multiple race weekends and didn’t finish three of the last five races.
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