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How Alpine recovered from being caught ‘in a nook’
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How Alpine recovered from being caught ‘in a nook’

By Miles Cooper January 12, 2025
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Alpine’s government technical director David Sanchez has described the staff as being “in a little bit of a nook” with its improvement within the early phases of the 2024 Method 1 season.

Sanchez was employed by Alpine final Could, having labored on the Enstone-based outfit from 2005 to 2007 as a junior aerodynamicist earlier than shifting to McLaren and Ferrari, with a short second stint in Woking early final yr.

When Sanchez took up his duties, Alpine was but to attain a degree in 2024. A brand new ground launched on the Miami Grand Prix introduced the A524 right down to the burden restrict, and different efficiency enhancements led the staff to realize 14 top-ten finishes in grand prix races, together with a double podium in Brazil.

“The automotive was not performing as a result of at the beginning of the yr, it was very heavy, and aerodynamically it was in a little bit of a nook,” Sanchez informed Motorsport.com in an end-of-season interview on the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

“So earlier than I joined that they had executed an excellent job on weight-saving. That is for certain. The automotive was near the restrict once more, and we steered fully the route of aero improvement.

“The chassis and the burden of the automotive had been one problem, and the aerodynamic traits had been one other problem. So when put collectively, it did not give an excellent begin of the yr. The chassis received sorted, the burden received recovered, and now we appear to have recovered a lot of the aerodynamics.”

Alpine propelled itself to sixth place within the 2024 constructors’ championship, scoring 54 factors after the summer time break – solely the highest 4 groups did higher over that interval.

How Alpine recovered from being caught ‘in a nook’

Esteban Ocon, Alpine, Pierre Gasly, Alpine

Photograph by: Lubomir Asenov / Motorsport Pictures

Nevertheless, this doesn’t satiate Sanchez’s ambition.

“I feel we’re coming again to an inexpensive degree, but it surely’s not… I would not say it is the place the staff ought to be, as a result of if in case you have the individuals, you might have the infrastructure, the place are you aiming to be?” the Frenchman mused.

“I feel some groups are completely happy to be, in all probability, within the midfield. This isn’t the place we would wish to be. We’re resourced to be aggressive. So for now, as an example we have recovered the dangerous begin of the yr. Now we simply have to preserve going, to proceed and preserve enhancing.”

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