Alpine has revealed its new car for the 2023 Formula 1 season at an event at the Printworks in London.
As last year, the team has presented its car in both a regular Alpine livery and a pink colour scheme based on that of title sponsor BWT. The team will use the pink livery for the first three races of the season.It will be raced by Esteban Ocon, who is going into his fourth season with the team, and Pierre Gasly, who joins from AlphaTauri.
The Renault-owned brand moved up to fourth place in the constructors championship last year, but was unable to repeat the victory Ocon scored at the Hungarian Grand Prix in 2021. It faces a stiff challenge to close the gap to the teams which finished ahead of it last year, as third-placed Mercedes scored almost three times as many points.
“Our ambition is to move closer to the top. We are here for the long-term. We are here to create top team. We are here to create a solid team.
“I have the feeling that, speaking to Laurent [Rossi, team CEO], to Otmar [Szafnauer, team principal], to Pat [Fry, chassis technical director], to everybody, that they are getting stronger and stronger together. I think they had a good time during the winter and they could work without a lot of issues.”
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He said the team’s goal is to “get closer to the top guys” in 2023. “We had a certain distance last year, I think it was what, 250 points, something like this.
The A523 has already completed its first laps at Silverstone earlier this week. Ocon said the chance to drive the car already was a “little bonus.”
“It has been obviously sensational to be driving again,” he said. “All these hours of work from everyone from Viry to Enstone, thousands of people working to deliver this car. It’s just been great to just let it go out the garage, put full throttle for the first time. That gave me, obviously, the smile.”
Gasly said he was “extremely excited” to see the first Alpine car he will race. “What a beautiful, beautiful car.
“It’s a new beginning for me, the start of a new journey and I must say I’m extremely motivated and just cannot wait to hit the track.”
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Pictures: 2023 Alpine A523
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amian
16th February 2023, 20:32
This car has such a beautiful classic look from the side view. Mmm.
Gavin Campbell
16th February 2023, 20:46
That is either a terrible render or they are trying to hide a lot of detail around their side pods.
I mean it’s a render just do a basic shape or even just stick last years on. Strange!!
SHR Modding
16th February 2023, 22:10
Real car was pictured on the filming day in Monday and it looks more an evolution of last year
https://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1111271#p1111271
petebaldwin (@)
17th February 2023, 10:25
It looks much more interesting in those shots. The studio pictures seem to really dumb it down somehow.
theRealMax (@millionus)
16th February 2023, 20:52
Copy/paste and give it some different colours ( with exception of the top 3 teams)
Bullfrog (@bullfrog)
16th February 2023, 21:07
All that heavy paint? They’ve got no chance!
It is a lovely shape with the long nose, one of those cars that looks fast standing still. Would have looked great in the original all-blue Alpine colours.
moogleslam
16th February 2023, 21:18
Both Alpine’s liveries look great. Top 3 liveries for me, in no particular order, are Alpine, Mercedes, McLaren.
Proesterchen (@proesterchen)
16th February 2023, 21:26
I prefer the pink version, much like last year.
PeterG
16th February 2023, 22:45
Cars are looking depressingly similar this year….. Mercedes sidepods been the exception.
Seems like they have all basically found the best direction to go under these horribly restrictive regulations and that it’s going to basically end up looking like a spec series.
SpaFrancorchamps (@spafrancorchamps)
17th February 2023, 7:42
I honestly don’t understand how you can say that. There are different design philosophies all over the field and cars differ much more from each other than the previous generation of F1 cars did. Already look at the side pods of the top general top 3… all three completely different.
Jere (@jerejj)
17th February 2023, 6:05
So one more event than last season for the pink-dominant alternative livery.
Surprisingly, they didn’t use this design in Melbourne last season already.
eljueta (@eljueta)
17th February 2023, 6:52
The BWT pink just doesn’t do it for me
Gubstar
17th February 2023, 7:57
Same! There are so many shades of pink that look great on race cars, just not this one
Dan G (@dang)
17th February 2023, 8:59
I like that Alpine has a realistic goal — a podium or two. Nice to see a team that’s not over-ambitious.
Phil Norman (@phil-f1-21)
17th February 2023, 9:45
It’s a very good looking car in my opinion. Very clean lines. One of the best this year. I hope it goes as well as it looks.
Qeki (@qeki)
17th February 2023, 11:17
Let’s see if Alonsos luck continues like it has been for past 15 years or was it the right time to move on from alpine