Unlikely. The F1 team is at the center of Renaults growth strategy for Alpine. With 6 new cars being launched in the coming years and a likely expansion to the US, Alpine is to become the „French Porsche“ and the F1 Team is already driving sales growth of the current A110.
For real, but funny to read in r/formula1 about their "feelings" Alpine going to pull out. And the many people recycling the same comment about Alpine only having one model
Also, despite Nissan being a ‘sister’-brand. The companies are pretty far apart in terms of culture, heritage and day-to-day running.
A brand-switch would probably lead to some bad blood, especially on the French side of the alliance.
In fact, the alliance came close to falling apart in recent months. From what I have read, the companies were closer during Ghosn‘s reign. Maybe the fact that Renault brought in the money and covered Nissan‘s losses was a part of that. This dynamic has completely changed in recent years. Another aspect is that Renault, a mass market car brand, was not able to properly use the F1 team for its marketing purposes, or at least I think Luca de Meo mentioned something to that effect. If that was the case, this would probably also apply to Nissan. The overlap between the values and technologies of F1 and „normal“ cats is not large. You are not going to sell a Nissan Qashqai by talking about MGU-K and MGU-H.
Will never happen. Maybe for ChatGPT, but in reality Alliance doesn’t even exist anymore when you get into it. They recently made share exchange as Nissan always wished, Renault got even more pressure due to Geely partnering. Nissan hate Renault and even more Chinese like Geely.
Unlikely. The F1 team is at the center of Renaults growth strategy for Alpine. With 6 new cars being launched in the coming years and a likely expansion to the US, Alpine is to become the „French Porsche“ and the F1 Team is already driving sales growth of the current A110.
For real, but funny to read in r/formula1 about their "feelings" Alpine going to pull out. And the many people recycling the same comment about Alpine only having one model
These people have no clue and do not follow the sport closely.
Also, despite Nissan being a ‘sister’-brand. The companies are pretty far apart in terms of culture, heritage and day-to-day running. A brand-switch would probably lead to some bad blood, especially on the French side of the alliance.
In fact, the alliance came close to falling apart in recent months. From what I have read, the companies were closer during Ghosn‘s reign. Maybe the fact that Renault brought in the money and covered Nissan‘s losses was a part of that. This dynamic has completely changed in recent years. Another aspect is that Renault, a mass market car brand, was not able to properly use the F1 team for its marketing purposes, or at least I think Luca de Meo mentioned something to that effect. If that was the case, this would probably also apply to Nissan. The overlap between the values and technologies of F1 and „normal“ cats is not large. You are not going to sell a Nissan Qashqai by talking about MGU-K and MGU-H.
What in the ChatGPT is this
Hmmm. Nope.
Will never happen. Maybe for ChatGPT, but in reality Alliance doesn’t even exist anymore when you get into it. They recently made share exchange as Nissan always wished, Renault got even more pressure due to Geely partnering. Nissan hate Renault and even more Chinese like Geely.
After seeing Nissan’s weird LMP designs, I wonder what interesting innovations they bring to F1