Alpine to close F1 engine programme with Mercedes switch likely - Alpine announced that the Viry-Chatillon facility outside Paris, which employs more than 300 staff, would become a ‘Hypertech’ centre

Renault will end its Formula 1 engine programme after the 2025 season, the French car company has announced. The decision means Renault's Alpine team will have to buy engines from another manufacturer,

Alpine F1 will continue — but not with Renault power. The automaker says it will no longer build its own engines for Formula 1, starting in 2026.

Renault are to stop producing Formula One engines from 2026, ending almost half a century of use in Formula One, the French manufacturer's Alpine team announced on Monday.

Renault is to end its F1 engine programme after almost half a century in the sport. It first entered F1 in 1977 with a new-fangled turbocharged engine, and but for a handful of years it’s been a constant presence on the grid ever since.