After three successive F1 seasons finishing in fifth place, Alpine moved up to fourth last year. But now the team is aiming to build on that to get closer to the top three. Here's a look at the steps it's taking to achieve that.
Taking everything into account, the overall conclusion is that 2022 was a solid if unspectacular season for Alpine, and a good starting point on which to build heading into the second year of the new regulations.
"We need to do the same, but be closer to third. So we need to be closer to third than we are to fifth. So even if we stay fourth, we've got to make progress." "At the same time, Laurent and the senior leadership team there were already working on a plan that they call 'Mountain Climber', which is how do we go from here in 100 races to vying for championships?
In fact, the biggest issue the team faced last year, powertrain reliability, was largely outside Enstone's hands. "It's definitely a significant amount, double digits. So we could have been 70 ahead or 50 ahead, something like that. So if we just do that, and the performance level stays relatively the same, we should be further up the road.Photo by: Carl Bingham /"But we also want to take a step in performance. And it's harder to do on the powertrain because it's frozen.
"And we're not there yet. But every decision we make has to be performance first. And that also comes from a little bit from the leadership, a little bit of what your focus needs to be, a little bit from the engineering team also having that focus.
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