Renault to end F1 engine programme after 2025

Renault will extremity its Formula 1 motor programme aft nan 2025 season, nan French car institution has announced.

The determination intends Renault's Alpine squad will person to bargain engines from different manufacturer, which is expected to beryllium Mercedes, from 2026.

Renault's F1 motor installation astatine Viry-Chatillon successful Paris will alternatively beryllium devoted to improvement of electrical centrifugal and artillery technologies, arsenic good arsenic Renault's remaining motorsport activities.

The move brings to an extremity astir 50 years of history pursuing Renault's pioneering determination to participate F1 successful 1977 pinch nan sport's first turbocharged engine.

Since then, Renault has made F1 engines continuously different than complete a three-year semi-hiatus from 1998-2000.

The institution is 1 of nan astir successful successful F1, having won world titles pinch drivers specified arsenic Michael Schumacher, Alain Prost, Sebastian Vettel, Nigel Mansell and Damon Hill, pinch nan Williams, Benetton and Red Bull teams.

Renault's ain squad besides won drivers' and constructors' title doubles pinch Fernando Alonso successful 2005 and 2006.

The determination to extremity nan F1 motor programme comes aft a decade of constricted occurrence for Renault/Alpine successful F1 since nan advent of hybrid power-units successful 2014, and nan competitory diminution of nan company's squad successful caller years.

Alpine won nan 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix pinch Esteban Ocon, and vanished 4th successful nan world title successful 2020 and 2022, and 5th successful 2021.

But past twelvemonth they slipped to sixth and successful 2024 they are ninth of 10 teams pinch six races remaining.

A connection from nan Renault Group made almost nary mention of nan determination to extremity its F1 motor programme different than to opportunity that F1 activities astatine Viry would "continue until nan extremity of nan 2025 season".

In caller weeks, a group representing nan labor astatine Renault's motorsport guidelines successful Paris had staged protests astatine nan Italian Grand Prix and held talks pinch Renault main executive serviceman Luca de Meo.

But these had nary effect connected a determination that had been expected wrong F1 for immoderate months.

Renault's connection said that it would group up an "F1 monitoring unit" which would "aim to support employees' knowledge and skills successful this athletics and stay astatine nan forefront of innovation" pinch nan different projects to which nan mill would now beryllium devoted.

The connection said each labor affected by nan determination would beryllium offered a position wrong nan caller structure, which has been named Alpine Hypertech.

A connection from nan Alpine F1 squad said: "This is simply a determination taken astatine Group level and by Alpine Management. The squad remains afloat focused connected nan 2024 FIA Formula 1 World Championship and moving difficult to present nan champion on-track results for nan remainder of nan season."

Motorsport engineering astatine Viry will now beryllium focused connected Alpine's World Endurance Championship programme, and Formula E and rally-raid programmes for Renault's partner brands.