Alpine Aiming For "A Final Push to The End of The season" States Oakes After Fruitless Singapore

Oliver Oakes has called for "a final push to the end of the season" for his Anglo-French team as they repeated another lackluster performance at the Singapore Grand Prix weekend.

It's been a monotonous season on and off track for Alpine; whether that is regarding car performance, collisions with teammates, departures of even more senior members of staff, immense loss of profits in the past calendar year and protests at its factory in Viry-Châtillon in France.

The announcement of Bruno Famin leaving the role as team principal over the Belgium Grand Prix weekend was formed of a wider plan to get Alpine back on track for 2025 and more importantly 2026.

In June, the hiring of former employee and Renault team boss Flavio Briatore as executive director for the Alpine F1 project, and after the summer break obtaining the signature of Hitech GP team director and former racing driver Oliver Oakes, who was a move highly approved by many due to his amazing work in FIA Formula 2 since he took over as Director of the Silverstone outfit Hitech GP in 2015.

At the Singapore Grand Prix, the team endured its 3rd scoreless weekend in a row, with Ocon finishing P13 and Gasly P17. Furthermore, Williams scoring points with both cars in Baku has now seen the team drop to ninth overall in the constructor's standings.

Their overall pace of the A524 in qualifying and over a race distance is just simply not competitive for regular points and that has been consistent all year due to many constraints such as; a power deficit from its own Renault engine, arriving at the start of the season with a severely overweight car (rumoured to be 11kg, costing around 0.4 a lap!) and a lack of development throughout the campaign and a switch of the majority of its resources towards next years car.

Oliver Oakes as ever had a truthful verdict of the team and positivity about the end of the year by saying, “It was a tough day on track and a repeat of what we saw in Qualifying, which follows the trend from the previous couple of races".

"We had expected to perform better here on this circuit configuration, but we did not have the pace. This is the reality of where we are currently." stated Oakes giving an honest assessment of where the team is at.

"There’s a lot of work going on behind the scenes to bring more performance to the car in the coming races. With four weeks until Austin, we need a final push to the end of the season.”.

Alpine has had a retched 2024 campaign overall, but, with new, very strong and experienced higher management signings including a team principal who is a logical thinker, ruthless and straight to the point. Along with a driver pairing of race winner Pierre Gasly and Jack Doohan, resetting the messy rivalry that Gasly and Ocon brought to the table. Alpine have a seriously strong personnel lineup for 2025 and beyond.