Alpine make positive prediction for 2022 Formula 1 campaign

Alpine were the ninth team to reveal their Formula 1 car for the 2022 season on Monday as a show car version of the A522 with an eye-catching livery broke cover in Paris.

Indeed, with blue and flashes of pink, the car that Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon are going to be driving this year is certainly going to look the part, with them set to feature an all-pink livery for the first couple of races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia respectively.

What matters most, though, is how it looks against the stopwatch and, speaking at the launch event in Paris yesterday, Alpine’s technical director Matt Harman explained that the team is feeling confident over potential gains thanks to a rethink with their entire power unit.

“At the very beginning of these regulations we actually started with the power unit, mainly because it does set some of the key areas of the car aerodynamically.

“We did a full review of this area of the car and we decided to change the architecture of that power unit extensively in all areas, including the internal combustion engine, the ERS system, the turbo and its positioning in the car.

“That has given us some real gains in terms of our ability to express ourselves aerodynamically and achieve the ultimate lap time of the car.

“The RE22 is a power unit that we’ve reviewed back-to-front.

“We have looked at every aspect of it in terms of its integration into the chassis, its base performance and the combination of the two.

“We’ve looked at the ERS system and its attributes. We’ve looked at the ICE, we’ve looked extensively on the structures that support the ICE. We’ve also looked at some of the electrical machines in terms of the MGU-K and also the turbo, making some quite big changes in that area to complement the