The Alpine F1 team’s new A523 car will be seen donning two different liveries during the 2023 season – why do they have two liveries?
Alpine has become the final Formula One team to reveal their new car and livery ahead of the 2023 season. Alpine’s new car the A523 will be seen in action in two different liveries during the course of the upcoming season. Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly will have their hands on the new car later this month during the pre-season testing in Bahrain before the season gets underway in March.
While most teams prefer having a single livery for the whole season, Alpine has gone ahead and unveiled two different liveries for particular reasons. It will feature the pink livery of sponsor BWT for the first three races of the year – Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Australia before switching to the dominant blue colour scheme of the Alpine car company. The launch ceremony of Alpine’s new car and liveries also featured their all new driver line-up comprising the French duo of Ocon and Gasly.
The new season of Formula One is just a few weeks away and teams have finalised their new cars and drivers’ line up for 2023. The 2023 F1 grid will see a number of new faces while we will certainly miss four-time World Champion, Sebastian Vettel, who decided to retire at the end of 2022 season. The new season will officially begin on March 5 at the Bahrain International Circuit.
There will be three debutants in the F1 grid next season – Nyck de Vries (Alpha Tauri), Oscar Piastri (McLaren) and Logan Sargeant (Williams). We will also see the full-time return of Nico Hulkenberg for the first time since 2019, who has replaced Mick Schumacher at Haas.
Meanwhile, Aston Martin has roped in two-time World Champion, Fernando Alonso to fill the spot vacated by the retiring Sebastian Vettel. McLaren has brought in Oscar Piastri after Alonso’s departure from the team. Yuki Tsunoda has moved on to Alpha Tauri while Alpine have signed Esteban Ocon to partner Gasly in the Japanese driver’s place. Nicholas Latifi, Mick Schumacher and Daniel Ricciardo are unfortunately missing out and won’t be a full-time part of the F1 grid next season.
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