Alpine Racing’s chief expects little from the team this year – but I think he’s wrong
Every morning, weary-eyed engineer Bruno Famin wakes up and decides to walk a tightrope so long that he’ll still be on it long after dinnertime. Previously the mastermind of victories at Le Mans and Dakar, plus Sébastien Loeb’s record-setting run at Pikes Peak, Famin was last year named as the new vice-president of Alpine Motorsport. It’s his job to correct the course of an F1 team that took six rounds to score a single point, as well as a nascent World Endurance Championship programme.
Famin elaborated: “It’s our first year and only our third race, Le Mans will be our . We have a lot to learn, and we will take it in a humble way because the grid is super strong.” With that slightly sobering primer for the action, I stomped downhill to watch qualifying with low expectations. At which point, something unexpected happened: not only were the Alpines fairly quick, but they even edged a handful of Porsches, Ferraris and Toyotas.
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