Alpine became the latest F1 team to debut next season’s look on Wednesday, unveiling its 2024 campaign livery at a live event at Whiteways Technical Center in Enstone.
As many fans wanted, and the team repeatedly made fun of on social media — Pink was expected to play a key role for Alpine this season. Last year, Alpine used pink livery for the first three races of the season, and multiple social media posts from the team showed a pink camouflage look, leading fans to hope that this would be the main design for 2024. was.
But when the A524 was finally unveiled on Wednesday, fans saw a lot of black carbon fiber.
As you can see from these four angles, there are definitely pink accents, but it’s not the massive amount of pink that many fans were expecting.
The team will reportedly use the pink livery in “a handful of races” this season, according to Will Wood. race fanThe following people attended the presentation:
Let’s take another look at the two different designs here. The main design for 2024 leans towards black with some blue accents, while the special pink livery has more pink accents but remains primarily black.
The team also unveiled the A424, the hypercar that Alpine will use in the World Endurance Challenge. Among the Alpine drivers in WEC? Mick Schumacher is one of a number of drivers linked with the seat that will soon be vacated at Mercedes when Lewis Hamilton moves to Ferrari:
Perhaps the biggest question facing the team this year, beyond the pink livery issue, is whether they can find more power in the A524 than they enjoyed in the A523 a season ago. According to analyst Lawrence Barrett, the only thing that hasn’t changed is: A523 is a steering wheel. Everything else has been updated as part of an aggressive redesign.
