"I believe that these events are very common, but above all we will see them again even more with the start of winter. We are all pushing extremely hard to stay under the weight limit of a few kilograms, so that we can have a performance advantage for 2024 and also an economic one for 2025”. Matt admits it Harman, technical director of Alpine, who explained the motivation why his team it failed the crash test ahead of the 2024 season.
Alpine fails the 2024 crash test, Harman: “The car will be completely different”
"The car will be completely new, both front and rear” continued Harman, who has already started to give a first hint about the new Alpine which, as announced in recent days, will be presented on February 7th. At the moment, the Enstone team will be among the first teams to reveal their car for the new year, before seeing it on track two weeks later with testing in Bahrain, from which we will have the first indications in view of the start of the season.
And it doesn't seem to have ended here...
At Alpine, therefore, they will continue to work to try to pass the FIA crash test to homologate the 2024 car. It's not the first time this has happened, as Harman explained, and it is not excluded that this problem could also arise other teams. The objective of the teams, having arrived at the 2024 season, will also be to try to plan for 2026, the year in which they will proceed with the regulatory change of the power units.
Even Red Bull?
In recent days, Motorsport.com had talked about a crash test also failed on the part of Red Bull. In this regard, no official confirmations have yet arrived, but the words of the Alpine technical director make it clear that failure to pass the test - to date - is no longer seen by the teams as a great plot twist. At the moment, therefore, news in this regard has only arrived from these two teams, but it cannot be ruled out that the list may continue to expand.
