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Gounon set for additional WEC race outing with Alpine
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Gounon set for additional WEC race outing with Alpine

By Miles Cooper October 31, 2024
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Jules Gounon is ready to graduate from his function as Alpine’s official World Endurance Championship reserve to take a race seat at Bahrain in November for a second consecutive weekend.

The transfer is a part of the identical plan, put in place initially of the season, that resulted in Gounon changing Paul-Loup Chatin within the #35 Alpine A424 LMDh for final weekend’s Fuji spherical, Motorsport.com has realized.

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This time it requires the Mercedes-AMG manufacturing facility driver to take the place of Charles Milesi, Alpine’s star performer at this month’s Austin and Fuji WEC races, within the #35 Hypercar class entry run by the manufacturing facility Signatech group. 

Alpine has to date but to substantiate Gounon’s function for the Bahrain 8 Hours on 2 November. 

The 29-year-old Frenchman, who subbed for the injured Ferdinand Habsburg in #35 on the Imola and Spa WEC rounds in April and Could respectively, seems to be in competition for a race seat on the Signatech Alpine squad subsequent 12 months. 

Hypothesis to that impact was fuelled by his promotion to the race line-up at Fuji, which was devised to offer him “the chance to proceed his Hypercar studying course of”, in response to Alpine.

The Renault model’s motorsport boss, Bruno Famin, wouldn’t verify that modifications within the Alpine WEC line-up are into consideration for 2025. He repeated the phrase “one factor after the opposite” when requested. 

Gounon set for additional WEC race outing with Alpine

#35 Alpine Endurance Crew Alpine A424: Jules Gounon

Picture by: JEP / Motorsport Photographs

Gounon, whose father Jean-Marc completed second on the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1997 driving a GTC McLaren F1 GTR, has by no means made any secret of his aspirations to compete on the highest stage of sportscar racing. 

He described going for victory within the WEC and on the Le Mans 24 Hours as “my greatest aim and my greatest dream”.

However he mentioned he most well-liked to speak about Fuji when questioned in Japan final weekend a few attainable full-time future with Alpine. 

He confirmed that he remained beneath contract to Mercedes as a part of its GT3 roster for yet another 12 months in 2025, however insisted that this may not essentially stop him for racing for Alpine within the full WEC alongside his commitments with the German producer. 

“It might be a risk,” he mentioned. 

Gounon revealed on the announcement of his take care of Alpine in February that he had travelled to the house of Mercedes-AMG head of buyer racing Stefan Wendl “to beg him to let me do that journey with Alpine”. 

He additionally revealed at the moment that there had been discussions a few full-time experience within the WEC with Alpine for 2024.

“Mercedes has been incredible for me over the previous three years and it wouldn’t have been honest to go towards them,” he mentioned.   

There may be nonetheless uncertainty over Mick Schumacher’s place at Alpine for subsequent 12 months. 

#36 Alpine Endurance Team Alpine A424: Mick Schumacher

#36 Alpine Endurance Crew Alpine A424: Mick Schumacher

Picture by: Andreas Beil

The previous Haas Formulation 1 driver, who has dovetailed his function as Mercedes’s take a look at and reserve with racing for Alpine within the WEC this 12 months, has repeatedly refused to decide to remaining within the sequence in 2025. 

He’s nonetheless insisting {that a} return to a full-time race seat in F1 stays his precedence regardless that there are actually solely two berths vacant. 

“I’m nonetheless taking a look at F1,” he mentioned. “My plans for subsequent 12 months are fairly open: nothing is confirmed, nothing is completed.”

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