Alpine F1 Team (Formerly known as Renault F1 Team) becomes the first Formula 1 team to reveal 2021 car Livery. The team names their 2021 Challenger as A521 and reveals it’s winter Livery on their social media account.
Earlier in the month team confirmed that Alpine cars, Renault Sport Cars (RSC) and Renault Sport Racing (RSR) join forces under the Alpine flagship. Full-fledged “new generation” entity combining unique engineering expertise from RSC and RSR, manufacturing facility in Dieppe, F1 media exposure and the Alpine brand legacy.
History of Alpine:
Alpine was founded in 1955 by Jean Rédélé, a young man passionate about competition. He named his company after his favorite playground for racing: the Alps.
When the original A110 road car was introduced in 1962, the company began to take off. By then, Alpine and Renault were close collaborators, Alpine cars being sold and serviced by Renault dealerships. By the early Seventies Alpine was a major force in top-flight rally competition.
In 1971 Alpine took the three steps on the podium of the world-famous Rallye Monte Carlo for the first time, then again in 1973. The company went on to win the World Rally Championship Manufacturers’ title later that year.
At the same time Alpine’s road car sales were growing. Alpine built a dedicated factory in Dieppe in 1969 – the same site that produces the all-new A110 today – and in 1971 the A310 entered production. Two years later, Alpine was acquired by Groupe Renault.
Alpine achieved its most famous motorsport triumph in 1978; overall victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The factory continued to release new and innovative road cars throughout the Seventies and Eighties, including the A310 V6 and the GTA. Alpine production would eventually cease in 1995.
