Horner in talks with MSP Sports Capital over £450m Alpine F1 stake Sport Business Former Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner could return to the Formula 1 grid as a team owner at Alpine. A 24 per cent stake in the French team owned by Otro Capital has been at the heart of a number of sale discussions over recent months, with Horner involved in those. But the [...]
Best cars 2025: Our brilliant and bonkers highlights of the year Life&Style These are difficult times to be a car company. Cheap Chinese imports, costly US tariffs and the UK Government’s muddled approach to policymaking have all slowed sales and impacted the bottom line. And that’s before you factor in cyber attacks, semiconductor shortages, the cost of living crisis and the reluctance of many motorists to embrace [...]
Padel Rally 2025: Fast cars and the world’s fastest growing sport Life&Style Millions of pounds worth of Porsches, Ferraris and Jaguars were spread out beneath me as I peered over the mezzanine at Joe Macari’s showroom in Wandsworth, south London. But my attention was drawn to the enormous screen above where, pixel by pixel, The Padel Rally logo I’d designed a year ago was loading. You can [...]
Alpine A290 GTS review: 2025’s most exciting EV turns up the heat June 12, 2025 The reborn Renault 5 has already won almost every automotive award going in 2025, including the European Car of the Year title. It’s the greatest comeback since Elvis Presley at Burbank Studios in 1968, or Niki Lauda at the Italian Grand Prix in 1976. If the electric Renault is the best thing since sliced baguette, [...]
Formula 1 team owner sponsors MotoGP outfit in new deal January 28, 2025 One of the 10 Formula 1 teams set to compete in the 2025 season has agreed a sponsorship agreement with MotoGP team Pramac Racing. Alpine – whose F1 outfit boasts Pierre Gasly and Jack Doohan – will be a main sponsor of the Prima Pramac Yamaha MotoGP team. The French manufacturer – whose Formula 1 [...]
Formula 1 driver follows Murray and Messi into padel business October 24, 2024 Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly has joined Andy Murray and Lionel Messi as an owner of a team in padel’s Hexagon Cup. Alpine racer Gasly has joined forces with financier and fellow Frenchman Loic Fery, the president of football club Lorient, to establish 10Padel. They will be the eighth and final team in next year’s [...]
Alpine looks to Mercedes as Renault halt F1 engine operations September 30, 2024 Renault will stop making Formula 1 engines from 2026, leaving Alpine on the hunt for a new provider. The French organisation, which first entered Formula 1 in 1977, will close its works engine programme at Viry-Chatillon. It means their sole engine user, Alpine – whose shareholders include Ryan Reynolds, Michael B Jordan, Anthony Joshua and [...]
F1 Team Alpine files legal action against its sustainable partner in England April 30, 2024 French F1 team Alpine has launched legal action against its sustainable partner after filing a claim to the English High Court
HP, Visa, Aramco: Who are the main sponsors of each F1 team? April 27, 2024 The names of F1 teams are getting more and more difficult to remember given the endless number of sponsorship deals within the sport. Here City A.M. has broken down who partners with who, and what that has done to each of the team’s names. BWT Alpine F1 Team BWT is an Austrian manufacturing company. It [...]