Alpine

F1 2026Összértékelés: 4.9/10

Pierre Gasly

Aktuális +0.52 · Forma +0.05

Franco Colapinto

Aktuális +0.04 · Forma +0.05

Időmérős alap

5.0

Verseny alap

4.9

Autó jellemzők

Időmérős tempó

5.0

Versenytempó

4.9

Csúcsleszorítóerő

4.7

Gyors kanyarok

4.2

Lassú kanyarok

4.5

Egyenesbeli sebesség

5.8

Aktív aero hatékonyság

4.1

Gumikopás-kezelés

4.6

Tapadás

4.3

Fékstabilitás

4.0

Útfekvés

4.5

Energia-visszanyerés

4.5

Megbízhatóság

5.5

Alpine has a car with a meaningful split between what it can do in qualifying versus what happens in race trim. The A525's single-lap pace is the team's standout attribute, notably above where their broader package might suggest. But braking stability, active aero, and traction all fall below grid average, and those weaknesses surface over a full race distance when tire management and consistent braking references become critical. Gasly brings enough driver craft to extract value from the qualifying strength, while Colapinto's near-zero offset keeps expectations aligned.

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The braking instability is worth specific attention for prediction work. Circuits with multiple, heavy braking zones, particularly street circuits and technical circuits with slow hairpin sequences, will expose Alpine more than lap data from smooth, flowing tracks suggests. The traction deficit compounds this: drivers who cannot trust the braking point also struggle with the subsequent power application, meaning the losses accumulate in the same parts of the circuit. Gasly's experience should help him find setup compromises, but there is a limit to how much the driver can compensate for a structural mechanical weakness.

Alpine's strongest prediction window is qualifying at smooth, medium-speed circuits with good aerodynamic consistency. The car's above-average qualifying pace can produce grid positions that overstate its ultimate race pace, leading to the characteristic Alpine result: a strong start from a decent qualifying position, followed by gradual degradation and a final finishing position a few places lower than where they started. The practical implication is that Alpine qualifies better than they race, and the gap between their predicted qualifying position and their race finish will be wider than for most cars of a similar overall rating.

Fejlesztési idővonal

Round 0Pre-Season

5.2

Pre-season baseline — biggest 2025-to-2026 jumper, Mercedes customer

race Pace 0.0traction 0.0quali Pace 0.0reliability +0.5ride Quality 0.0peak Downforce 0.0energy Recovery +0.3low Speed Corners 0.0tyre Degradation +0.3braking Stability 0.0high Speed Corners +0.2straight Line Speed +0.3active Aero Efficiency +0.2

Alpine made the biggest jump of any team from 2025 (last place) to 2026 midfield by switching attention early to the new regulations (The Race, F1.com). Mercedes customer team — third-best Mercedes-powered team behind works and McLaren. Gasly set 1:33.421 (+1.429s), which adjusted for his +0.4 driver offset suggests the car is ~1.8s off pole pace, consistent with upper-midfield positioning. 1,034 total laps with decent reliability. Expected to be 'within regular striking distance of Q3' (The Race). SANDBAGGING/PU CONTEXT: As a Mercedes customer, Alpine ran the same de-tuned PU mappings as McLaren and Williams during testing — 'more basic specification with simpler mappings' than the works team (Autosport). This means energyRecovery (5.3) and straightLineSpeed (5.3) are artificially depressed relative to the actual Mercedes PU hardware capability. The Mercedes compression ratio loophole (protested by all rival manufacturers) means Alpine has access to what is arguably the strongest PU on the grid, but the works-vs-customer knowledge gap and testing detuning mask the true potential. Alpine sits furthest from the works team in the optimization hierarchy.

Australian Grand PrixBaseline

4.3

Round 1 baseline — disappointing despite Mercedes PU; front wing 'injury' and deployment gaps

race Pace -0.5traction -0.8quali Pace -0.5reliability -0.5ride Quality -0.5peak Downforce -0.8energy Recovery -0.8low Speed Corners -0.5tyre Degradation -0.8braking Stability -1.0high Speed Corners -1.4straight Line Speed -0.3active Aero Efficiency -1.2

Underperformed expectations. Gasly P14 in quali (+1.983), scraped P10 in race. Front wing 'aerodynamic injury' causing high-speed understeer through Turns 9-10. Deployment 'messy', worst of 4 Mercedes-powered teams. Race pace 85.633 (+2.135) — 8th of 11. Colapinto 10s stop-go penalty (unsafe release). Gasly sustained front wing damage from Ocon contact. Sources: The Race, Motorsportweek, FIA speed trap PDFs, Formula1.com.

Chinese Grand PrixWeekend Final

4.4

Round 2 — dramatic improvement, double points, Gasly ahead of both Red Bulls

race Pace +0.6quali Pace +0.5

Alpine's biggest jump of 2026 so far. Gasly qualified P7 (ahead of both Red Bulls) and finished P6. Colapinto scored P10 — first points since 2024 US GP. Race pace 1.256s off Mercedes is on par with Haas and dramatically better than the 2.135s gap at Melbourne R1. Mercedes PU switch clearly paying dividends. Both qualiPace and racePace show confirmed multi-session improvement across sprint qualifying, qualifying, sprint, and race. Sources: Formula1.com, The Race, Alpine.

Japanese Grand PrixWeekend Final

4.4

Round 3 — Gasly P7 beats Verstappen, highest speed trap on grid, 3 upgrades

race Pace -0.0quali Pace +0.1peak Downforce +0.1tyre Degradation +0.1high Speed Corners +0.2straight Line Speed +0.2active Aero Efficiency +0.1

Gasly P7 held off Verstappen in a straight fight — significant given Red Bull's pedigree. Speed trap 333 km/h (tied 1st on grid, Mercedes PU). Upgrades: front air deflector, rear wing actuator revision, rear wing endplate redesign for more local load. Colapinto P16, over 0.5s off Gasly in qualifying. Good deg rate (-0.0177). Race pace +1.260s. Sources: Formula1.com, ReadMotorsport upgrades, FastF1 data.

Miami Grand PrixWeekend Final

4.8

Round 6 (Miami) — both Q3 (first time 2026), Colapinto career-best P7, 6 upgrades deployed

race Pace -0.0traction +0.1quali Pace -0.1peak Downforce +0.2straight Line Speed +0.1

Confirmed midfield leader. Both cars in Q3 — first time in 2026 — with COL P8 (career-best Q3 at Alpine) and GAS P9. COL finished P7 (P8 on road, +1 from LEC penalty), Alpine's best result of season. 6 upgrades deployed: front camera mount revision, rear suspension, additional element on rear impact structure, new rear wing (pulled forward one race early — GAS got it), rear wing endplate, new chassis for Colapinto. Long-run pace midfield-leading (+1.32s, Motorsport.com). GAS race DNF L4 was damage-sustained from LAW gearbox/anti-stall contact — NOT GAS's fault, post-impact data discounted. Modest distribution: peakDF +0.2 for new rear wing + suspension, strLineSpd +0.1 (Mercedes PU advantage on long straights), traction +0.1. Sources: F1.com, The Race upgrades survey, Motorsport.com long-runs, Buenos Aires Herald (COL career-best).

Canadian Grand PrixWeekend Final

4.9

Round 7 (Canada) — new floor + rear wing landed, both cars in points, GAS race speed trap leader

race Pace +0.1quali Pace -0.2peak Downforce +0.2high Speed Corners +0.2straight Line Speed +0.2

Alpine deployed new floor + floor-board geometry + modified rear wing geometry tuned for Montreal's long straights. Result: COL P10 quali (made Q3, career-best) → P6 race (career-best); GAS P14 quali → P8 race; race speed trap leader GAS 348.2 km/h. Best Alpine weekend of 2026. Upgrade-aware exception applies, but cumulative spread (4 attributes) intentionally capped at 0.7 total to avoid overclaiming: peakDownforce +0.2 (new floor), highSpeedCorners +0.2 (broader chassis), straightLineSpeed +0.2 (race speed trap leader + Mercedes PU low-DF rear wing; trimmed from +0.3 since Montreal is a low-DF circuit and the speed-trap signal overweights at low-DF). Traction bump dropped — no high-load corner test at Montreal.

Barcelona Grand PrixWeekend Final

4.9

Round 9 (Barcelona) - Gasly fastest speed trap of all (340.6 km/h); P7 + P10, top midfield scorers again

race Pace -0.3quali Pace -0.2reliability +0.2straight Line Speed +0.3

straightLineSpeed +0.3: Gasly fastest through the qualifying speed trap at 340.6 km/h - the only confirmed absolute trap number of the weekend (f1i.com), on a straight-mode-efficient setup; single-point move at the cap, but it is the designated source type for SLS. Saturday/Sunday split continues (P13/P14 quali -> P7 + P10 official) - lives in the derived pace baselines, not car-DNA. COL +10s yellow-flag penalty logged as driver-error (raw file classification is pre-penalty on-road order). Reliability +0.2 = grid re-center only. Grid reliability re-center +0.2 applied to all 11 teams (incident penalties pushed the grid reliability average to 4.33, breaching the +/-0.5 band; re-centered to 4.53, relative gaps preserved). Pipeline re-derives qualiPace/racePace from committed raw round-09; no manual pace override (dry, representative weekend). Sources: FastF1 round-09; f1i.com; Wikipedia.

Austrian Grand PrixWeekend Final

4.9

Round 10 (Austria) - anonymous midfield; 4-part front-end package deployed with no measurable gain

race Pace +0.0quali Pace +0.1reliability +0.2

GAS Q11 (missed Q3 by 0.068) / P13; COL Q16 (+0.671 off GAS) / P15. New front wing + nose + front corner + diffuser winglet deployed but 'yielded precious little' (The Race) - flagged ineffective, no attribute credit. COL's gap is a driver note (single bad weekend after two strong ones - no offset change), not a car signal. No car-DNA changes; result profile-consistent. Reliability: clean weekend; +0.2 is the grid re-center only. Grid reliability re-center +0.2 applied to all 11 teams (R10 incident penalties pushed the grid reliability average to 4.36, breaching the +/-0.5 band; re-centered to 4.56, relative gaps preserved). Pipeline re-derives qualiPace/racePace from committed raw round-10; no manual pace override (dry, representative weekend). Sources: FastF1 round-10; The Race; F1.com.

British Grand PrixWeekend Final

4.9

Round 11 (Silverstone) - double points on attrition; trap speed re-confirmed, no DNA moves

race Pace -0.1quali Pace -0.2reliability +0.1

Double points (COL P9 from P19, GAS P10) - but attrition/strategy-driven: race median 7th (+2.062), two VSCs + late SC compressed the field and three cars ahead retired. No DNA changes: traps P3/P5 (COL 320 / GAS 319 km/h) re-confirm the existing SLS 5.8 (already captured at R9); Q2/Q1 exits at a high-speed track consistent with rated HSC 4.2. GAS 3-place grid penalty for impeding STR in Q1 - driver error, no car implication. No upgrades registered. Reliability +0.1 grid re-center only. COL offset unchanged: Sunday result attrition-aided against a 1.258s quali deficit to GAS. Grid reliability re-center +0.1 applied to all 11 teams (R11 incident penalties pushed the grid reliability average to 4.45, breaching the +/-0.5 band; re-centered to 4.55, relative gaps preserved). Sources: FastF1 round-11; F1.com; The Race.