Alpine has unveiled the car it will race alongside Toyota and Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus in the inaugural Hypercar class of the World Endurance Championship.
Dubbed the A480, the racer is virtually identical to the Rebellion R-13 that competed in last year’s LMP1 category. While the Hypercar class was initially formed solely for hypercars that would spawn production models, it has since been opened up to racing prototypes that will compete in the LMDh class. All vehicles will need to comply with a Balance of Performance system.
Powering the Alpine A480 is a 4.5-liter V8 from Gibson Technology while the car is underpinned by an Oreca chassis. Alpine will enter just a single car in the championship with drivers Nicolas Lapierre, André Negrão, and Matthieu Vaxivière.
Alpine explain stance on Alonso return to Le Mans
Date published:
March 7 2021
Alpine have no plans to get F1 drivers Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon involved in their Le Mans programme for the foreseeable future.
Alonso is a two-time winner of the Le Mans 24-Hour Race, in 2018 and 2019 for Toyota, the first of those years when he was still racing in Formula 1 with McLaren.
But the Spaniard should not expect to try and make it three victories in three appearances at the famous endurance event while his F1 comeback with Alpine is in progress.
An Alpine hypercar programme is under way and they will be entering the 2021 Le Mans 24-Hour Race – which was recently postponed from its usual mid-June date until August in the hope of a crowd being able to attend – with the A480.
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