New team Alpine launch their Formula One challenger for the 2021 season

The new Alpine team have launched their first Formula One car ahead of the 2021 season which will be driven by the returning Fernando Alonso.

Having undergone a winter rebrand following its previous guise as Renault, the team will be hoping to build upon a respectable fifth place finish last term, with the two-time world champion back on board for a third spell.

The car unveiled showed an attractive electric blue livery, with a notable tail featuring the tricolore of the French flag and splash of the Union flag to show the French-Anglo make up of the team. 

Alonso won his world championships while with the team in their Renault guise back in 2005 and 2006.

And after an absence of two seasons, the 39-year-old will be back behind the wheel of an F1 car with the French team based in Enstone, Oxfordshire. 

The Spaniard though was not present for the car’s launch though due to travel restrictions in relation to Covid-19 preventing him from being able to attend the virtual launch in the UK from his Switzerland home.

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