Alpine F1 will continue — but not with Renault power. The automaker says it will no longer build its own engines for Formula 1, starting in 2026.

Renault will end its Formula 1 engine programme after the 2025 season, the French car company has announced. The decision means Renault's Alpine team will have to buy engines from another manufacturer, which is expected to be Mercedes, from 2026.

Renault has confirmed that its Formula 1 engine activities will cease at the end of the 2025 season. The move has been widely anticipated for a couple of months and has been met with widespread criticism in Renault’s native France, with employees lobbying to reverse the decision.

Struggling Formula 1 team Alpine confirmed it will no longer use its homemade Renault engines in 2026. Alpine said in a statement on Monday that its F1 engine factory at Viry-Chatillon on the outskirts of Paris would become an engineering center called Hypertech Alpine, starting from the end of this year.

A statement from Renault has confirmed that it will be abandoning Alpine's 2026 Formula 1 engine project at its Viry-Châtillon factory in France, thereby ending its involvement in the premier class as a works outfit.

With Renault no longer producing F1 engines, Alpine will have to become a customer team, buying engines from a new manufacturer, with a Mercedes partnership not out of the questio

The bottom line is that Alpine will no longer be an F1 engine supplier. The post Alpine announced new Hypertech center, will stop making F1 engines after 2025 appeared first on The Manual.

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