Alpine Endurance Team has unwrapped the pair of prototypes with which it will do battle in the FIA World Endurance Championship’s headlining Hypercar category in 2026.
Alpine heads into the forthcoming campaign buoyed by the A424’s finest season to-date at the international pinnacle of the long-distance discipline last year, yielding victory in FIA WEC’s milestone 100th event at Fuji, complemented by further podium places at Imola and Spa-Francorchamps.
The French manufacturer has more silverware in its sights over the coming months, after unveiling its aerodynamically-updated racer tonight during the course of a pre-season presentation in Paris, where the brand is based. Alpine put the car through its paces at Portimão in Portugal a few weeks ago, reporting encouraging results.
For Les Bleus’ third consecutive campaign in the top-tier of the world’s premier endurance racing series, Charles Milesi and Ferdinand Habsburg – who have been with the team since the start of the Hypercar adventure and were instrumental in the A424’s maiden triumph in Japan last September – will be joined in the #35 Hypercar by FIA WEC returnee and former Formula E champion, António Félix da Costa.
In the sister #36 entry, incumbent duo Jules Gounon and Frédéric Makowiecki will form an all-French line-up alongside endurance racing newcomer, Victor Martins.
Following the Qatar 1812km curtain-raising contest on 28 March, the hunt for honours will continue with races at Imola (19 April), Spa-Francorchamps (9 May), Le Mans (13-14 June), Interlagos (12 July), COTA (6 September) and Fuji (27 September), prior to concluding with the traditional eight-hour season finale in Bahrain on 7 November.
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