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Alpine’s 2024 F1 car "new front to back" after maxing out 2023 design
Alpine slid back from fourth in 2022 to sixth last season, unable to keep up with rivals McLaren and Aston Martin. The team chose to completely redesign the car for the 2024 season after struggling to improve the performance of the previous model. The goal of the redesign is to create a car with a wider operating window, as the previous model had a very specific range in which it performed well. The A524 features a new chassis, rear suspension, brake system, nose, front wing, and an emphasis on aggressive floor development. The team hopes that these changes will allow for a steeper development curve in the final years of the current regulations cycle. The project began at the end of the 2022 season and experiments were conducted during the 2023 season to highlight areas for improvement in aerodynamics and vehicle dynamics.
