{"id":433329,"date":"2026-01-24T00:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/433329\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T00:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:35:12","slug":"alpine-atones-for-last-years-hiding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/433329\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpine atones for last year&#8217;s hiding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was somewhat ironic that the team which plunged to new depths in the Formula 1&#8217;s constructors&#8217; championship last year was named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/alpine\/39174\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alpine<\/a>. That said, it&#8217;s at least fitting that it stands ahead of a mountain to climb as it seeks to arrest the often-mediocre performances seen across 2025, albeit largely due to the development tap being turned off decidedly early.<\/p>\n<p>There were a few flickers of life across last season, confined largely to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/pierre-gasly\/840483\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pierre Gasly<\/a>&#8216;s side of the garage as the Frenchman remained motivated despite the Renault-owned team putting both eyes firmly on the 2026 ball. The switch to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/mercedes\/36495\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mercedes<\/a> power units, turning a works outfit into a manufacturer-owned customer squad, was controversial and led to strike action at Renault&#8217;s powertrain headquarters in Viry-Chatillon &#8211; but one suspects the owners won&#8217;t mind if it makes the team competitive at a lower price point.<\/p>\n<p>            We want to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">Let us know what you would like to see from us in the future.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Autosport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was somewhat ironic that the team which plunged to new depths in the Formula 1&#8217;s constructors&#8217; championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[821,226614,226615,64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-433329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-alpine","tag-alpine-atones-for-last-years-hiding-by-hiding-key-details-on-its-a526","tag-alpine-launch","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}