[Team] Alpine: The cars are Racing Points

[S griffin]

Anyway, about Alpine or Alpeen...

[Greem]

That's the same sound!

[morninggents]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

What about Mexicans first then Argentines?

....and the Aussies. Particularly in the F1 threads.

[morninggents]

Originally Posted by Greem

That's where I live. Loughborough. Not Lowburrow. Or Luffburruff. Or Lowbrow. Loughborough. See? It's not too hard, is it?

Whilst we are ridiculing English names what about Slaithwaite (pronounced locally as Slow (as in cow) it. Also Cholmondley pronounced Chumley.

[GTRMagic]

Originally Posted by Greem

That's the same sound!

The doggie brand here was always referred to as Al-pine not Alpeen

[Tourer]

My apologies for posting about relevant matter to this thread

Joe Saward's latest green notebook includes mention that he's heard from a good source that GM has bought the IP to the Renault 2026 PU. Maybe someone from GM was reading this thread?

[Richard C]

Originally Posted by Tourer

My apologies for posting about relevant matter to this thread

Well, we can always jump back off topic at any time!

Originally Posted by Tourer

Joe Saward's latest green notebook includes mention that he's heard from a good source that GM has bought the IP to the Renault 2026 PU. Maybe someone from GM was reading this thread?

That is interesting. It would make sense if Renault has no desire to move forward, the value of that IP would degrade over time. So now is the time to sell it to someone. Conversely GM would need to do something with it for the purchase to make sense. Hmmm.

Also in his article, he calls out that the team is not for sale now. Which aligns with comments Luca de Meo has said. Joe says that after 2026 however it might be sold to the highest bidder. And I think that also makes sense given 2026 will be under the new Concorde agreement which should see the high value locked in (maybe even increased) with high entry costs for a new team. See my earlier comments (post from the 10th) about de Meo treating the team as an investment vs. a racing team.

Unrelated to Alpine, it is interesting that there is the potential that Sauber/Audi could be bought. That there seems to remain consistent doubt as to commitment by VW. He spins a tail of sale to unnamed Qatari entity due to Qatari having 17% ownership in VW, but I think that is a stretch. Porsche family owns controlling interest in VW and I expect if they want to be in F1 they will be in F1. And any potential sale will be to appropriate bidder regardless if it is related to Qatari instrest in VW or not.

Richard