Alpine Renault A523 speculation thread

[Blackout]

Yes that makes sense....... but teams sometimes do weird stuff in these events

[AR3-GP]

Yes that makes sense....... but teams sometimes do weird stuff in these events

Could be. My only other explanation would be that the A523 was not ready, but they wanted to shakedown the power unit in the A522 for some reason.

[Morteza]

[SmallSoldier]

Good pic from video of the A523:



Via: @frenchpine

[organic]

Good pic from video of the A523:

https://i.imgur.com/gA87rkk.jpg

Via: @frenchpine

I feel like I can see a downwashing crease in the sidepod. Looks like it's very similar to the mcl60 in terms of sidepod

[AR3-GP]

I don't see any sharkfin (but maybe it's because it's black).

[Venturiation]

[Blackout]

To me, it seems the sidepod flancs / pink area kinda returned to their 2022 1st GP shape (top)
And the undercut before them remains rather short. not Ferrari short, not RB long, middle length, like A522A

(Spain / GB - Nextegn-Auto)

[Venturiation]

To me, it seems the sidepod flancs / pink area kinda returned to their 2022 1st GP shape (top)
And the undercut before them remains rather short. not Ferrari short, not RB long, middle length, like A522A

(Spain / GB - Nextegn-Auto)
https://i.imgur.com/Pju2QRL.jpg

i watched it in slow mo and if you stop at 7sec you can see it's like the top car
even the cooling is like the upper image

[kediown]

Clearer picture

[AR3-GP]

Wow, someone with a camera delivered.

There's a kink on the top of the sidepod edge, like the Red Bull.

In my estimation, AM, RB, and Alpine all will have a very similar sidepod.

Alpine still has the very ugly cooling inlet however...

[kediown]

https://i.redd.it/qrd7sbysz1ia1.jpg

Clearer picture

Is it because of the angle or they've added mirror winglets?

[AR3-GP]

https://i.redd.it/qrd7sbysz1ia1.jpg

Clearer picture

Is it because of the angle or they've added mirror winglets?

Yes I see winglets like ALpha Tauri last year?

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https://i.redd.it/qrd7sbysz1ia1.jpg

Clearer picture

Is it because of the angle or they've added mirror winglets?

Yes I see winglets like ALpha Tauri last year?

Yeah I count 4

[organic]

https://i.redd.it/qrd7sbysz1ia1.jpg

Clearer picture

Just me or are the sidepod inlets looking very squared off ? it's obviously not a good angle of them though

And yes the sidepod is similar to what they had in their bahrain test in 2022 but with the downwashing crease behind the mirror "supports"

With the same sort of sidepod and the same sidepod inlets as in 2022 Bahrain test.. it seems like they abandoned a few things they did as development in 2022