Alpine A522 Speculation Thread

[RedNEO]

One more sun set

[Kukrika]

Maybe something like that?

[Mansell89]

One more sun set
https://img.freepik.com/free-vector/ret ... 08-170.jpg

I hope that’s what we see- a predominant blue and just some tasteful pink additions, as opposed to the horrific Racing Point cars we saw in recent years

[Pandamasque]

The car in the "leak" is an early FOM model, I think. And gosh, I thought mixing pink with the French tricolour was challenging, but whoever did it also found it necessary to add bright green!

https://estaticos-cdn.sport.es/clip/d41 ... ault_0.jpg

Castrol become a kinda of a title sponsor since Jeddah

I always liked the Castrol livery. But that fake shot uses a nastier shade of green bordering directly with pink.

If I had to do the 2022 BWT livery I'd give that Castrol rear end part to BWT colours, then make everything ahead of that diagonal line blue, with small tricolour stripes running from the nose tip to the driver headrest. So at a glance the car is just blue/pink and not too busy looking.

[organic]

The car in the "leak" is an early FOM model, I think. And gosh, I thought mixing pink with the French tricolour was challenging, but whoever did it also found it necessary to add bright green!

https://estaticos-cdn.sport.es/clip/d41 ... ault_0.jpg

Castrol become a kinda of a title sponsor since Jeddah

I always liked the Castrol livery. But that fake shot uses a nastier shade of green bordering directly with pink.

If I had to do the 2022 BWT livery I'd give that Castrol rear end part to BWT colours, then make everything ahead of that diagonal line blue, with small tricolour stripes running from the nose tip to the driver headrest. So at a glance the car is just blue/pink and not too busy looking.

Given how flowing the new car's bodywork is I don't think the previous sharp angled livery approach will work at all; it only looked good because it aligned with the angle of the rear-wing endplate edges and many other harsh straight lines on the old car. The new far more curvaceous shapes lack the diagonal angles for the livery to align with and call for something flowing roughly parallel to the long axis of the car akin to the lines on Merc, AMR, Red Bull, McLaren, Haas so far. It's not a coincidence all of these teams have chosen this artistic approach that follows and compliments contours on the car - that is simply good livery design.

I am almost certain they will ditch the diagonal line and the Castrol green will not feature dominantly at all imo as it clashes too much with their other colours

[Kamel]

Maybe something like that?
https://ibb.co/GM18ZXj

Seems not to look like the others. Pushrod

[cirrusflyer]

Maybe something like that?
https://ibb.co/GM18ZXj

Seems not to look like the others. Pushrod

Ferrari style sidepid?

[LM10]

Maybe something like that?
https://ibb.co/GM18ZXj

Where is this from?

[Blackout]

It's from the team's teasers on twitter.
Pretty sure that's the first 2022 FOM render. It's recognizable thanks to its narrow beam wing for example.
https://img.redbull.com/images/q_auto,f ... nique-2022

[Blackout]

Regarding the logo, it might change:

[Kukrika]

Maybe something like that?
https://ibb.co/GM18ZXj

Where is this from?

Alpine f1 team twitter launch video.
Side pods look like AM?

[Kamel]

Unverified rumors about A522 are still disappointing. Some say that the car will be brought to the second tests only. I hope Alpine deliberately spreads false rumors so as not to reveal its cards

[Blackout]

Maybe something like that?
https://ibb.co/GM18ZXj

Where is this from?

Alpine f1 team twitter launch video.
Side pods look like AM?

viewtopic.php?p=1034107#p1034107
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Unverified rumors about A522 are still disappointing. Some say that the car will be brought to the second tests only. I hope Alpine deliberately spreads false rumors so as not to reveal its cards

Can you at least mention where you saw those rumors...

[diffuser]

Where is this from?

Alpine f1 team twitter launch video.
Side pods look like AM?

viewtopic.php?p=1034107#p1034107
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Unverified rumors about A522 are still disappointing. Some say that the car will be brought to the second tests only. I hope Alpine deliberately spreads false rumors so as not to reveal its cards

Can you at least mention where you saw those rumors...

Getting pretty tired of all these trolls...Sigh, one more day.

[Pandamasque]

Given how flowing the new car's bodywork is I don't think the previous sharp angled livery approach will work at all; it only looked good because it aligned with the angle of the rear-wing endplate edges and many other harsh straight lines on the old car. The new far more curvaceous shapes lack the diagonal angles for the livery to align with and call for something flowing roughly parallel to the long axis of the car akin to the lines on Merc, AMR, Red Bull, McLaren, Haas so far. It's not a coincidence all of these teams have chosen this artistic approach that follows and compliments contours on the car - that is simply good livery design.

I am almost certain they will ditch the diagonal line and the Castrol green will not feature dominantly at all imo as it clashes too much with their other colours

I'm sure the Castrol thing was a one off and will be a just small logo, likely on the rear endplate.

The problem with longitudinal lines on car sides, whether straight or curvy, they make a car look longer. This is not desirable on a race car that already has a footprint of an long wheelbase Range Rover, even in 2022. This is where transverse lines and divisions work best, since they achieve the opposite effect.
The diagonal stripe running across the 2021 Alpine car did not match the angle of the endplates, not even remotely. Nor was it necessary, as history shows:


or more relevantly: