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The Alpine A522 is a Formula One car designed and constructed by the BWT Alpine F1 Team and competed in the 2022 Formula One World Championship. The car was driven by Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon. The chassis is Alpine's first car under the 2022 technical regulations.[3]

Competition history

The car was generally about as competitive as its predecessor, the A521, and was regularly in the hunt for points at races, but not usually troubling the top teams. One of the car's key strengths is its top speed, which was particularly evident in races such as Baku, where it was noted that other cars could not catch the A522 on the straightaways, despite the advantage of DRS. The team had reliability problems in several races, however the team beat McLaren to 4th in the constructors' championship - their best finish since 2018.

Sponsorhip and livery

The "pink" livery of the A522 on display during the Silverstone Classic

To mark the start of the sponsorship deal between Alpine and BWT, the A522 competed in the first two races of the season, in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, in pink livery, completely replacing the usual blue livery.[4]

Racing Pride

In June 2022, Racing Pride announced a partnership with [Alpine, which saw Racing Pride work with Alpine on a number of initiatives to ensure their pathways for attracting emerging talent are welcoming to LGBTQ+ people, and the team pledged to show support and raise awareness and for the LGBTQ+ community.[5] Coinciding with Pride Month 2022, the Formula 1 team also ran a special pride livery on their Alpine cars throughout the month of June,[6] with other nods to the LGBTQ+ community throughout the team's sites.

Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi said of the partnership: "For so long, motorsport has not been representative of the diversity we see in wider society. There are various reasons, but we need to look forward and challenge the biases we see. Our journey starts here. The LGBTQ+ community has lacked visible representation and support within our industry, and we need to change this. We want Alpine to be an open, inclusive and productive place to work and for our employees to feel happy and supported in their workplace. A happy environment gives greater creativity and that is exactly what we need to foster as we move forward. To do so, we need to fully understand the challenges some of the under-represented groups in motorsport face. Pride Month is a good place to start; we know that we need to do more to give this community a voice and representation.".[5]

Complete Formula One results

Key
Key
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver Second place
Bronze Third place
Green Other points position
Blue Other classified position
Not classified, finished (NC)
Purple Not classified, retired (Ret)
Red Did not qualify (DNQ)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did not start (DNS)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not practice (DNP)
Excluded (EX)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Withdrawn (WD)
Did not enter (empty cell)
Annotation Meaning
P Pole position
F Fastest lap
Superscript
number
Points-scoring position
in sprint
Year Entrant Power unit Tyres Driver name Grands Prix Points WCC pos.
BHR SAU AUS EMI MIA ESP MON AZE CAN GBR AUT FRA HUN BEL NED ITA SIN JPN USA MXC SAP ABU
2022 BWT Alpine F1 Team Renault E-Tech RE22 P Spain Fernando Alonso 9 Ret 17 Ret 11 9 7 7 9 5 10 6 8 5 6 Ret Ret 7 7 19† 5 Ret 173 4th
France Esteban Ocon 7 6 7 14 8 7 12 10 6 Ret 56 8 9 7 9 11 Ret 4 11 8 8 7
Reference:[7][8]

References

  1. ^ "Alpine A522". Alpine. Archived from the original on 21 February 2022. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Groupe Renault and BP deepen their strategic partnership". BP.
  3. ^ "Formula 1 2022 Technical Regulations" (PDF). Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Alpine unveil blue and pink 2022 challenger, the A522". Formula1.com. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  5. ^ a b "BWT ALPINE F1 TEAM PARTNERS WITH RACING PRIDE". Racing Pride. 2 March 2023.
  6. ^ "Pride Month in F1 | Alpine and Mercedes call attention to LGBTQ+". GPBlog. 2 March 2023.
  7. ^ "2022 Constructor Standings". Formula1.com. 20 March 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  8. ^ "Alpine A522". StatsF1. 20 March 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2022.

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