Alpine confirms its arrival in LM P1 in 2021

We announced it to you a few days ago already. The brand Alpine, via the Signatech stable Alpine by Philippe Sinault, will be entered at the highest level of endurance in 2021, in the form of a program in LM P1 in the World ChampionshipEndurance and 24 Hours of Le Mans under the banner Alpine EnduranceTeam.

For this new challenge, which will complete the arrival of the Dieppe firm in F1, not counting the presence of the A110 R-GT in rally, the team will operate an Oreca chassis powered by a Gibson engine. Enough to try to scrap with the Hypercars, since a Balance of Performance must balance the debates.

After having put his stamp on the LM P2 category with three victories in Sarthe and two titles WEC, the time had come to move to the higher category for Berruyère training.

“The story ofAlpine is made of challenges, recalls Philippe Sinault. Few people believed in us in 2013, but we proved ourselves step by step to demonstrate that we were capable of evolving at the highest level. Today, this new challenge is in the same vein thanks to the opening of a unique shooting window.

We will be the newcomers in the premier category and we intend to make life difficult for our opponents. The trust placed in us Alpine in this project is a huge source of pride for our teams and our partners who joined this adventure from its beginnings.

We are approaching this program with the desire to do well while having the means to work in an extremely qualitative manner in the context of the 2021 season. It is an exhilarating and incredibly motivating challenge on a sporting level and we want to be there. height so thatAlpine enters even more into the history of French and world motorsport. »

We will still have to wait to find out the crew and livery of the future French LM P1.