Renault will end its Formula 1 engine programme after the 2025 season, the French car company has announced. The decision means Renault's Alpine team will have to buy engines from another manufacturer, which is expected to be Mercedes, from 2026.

Alpine will stop making its own engines at the end of 2025 Caps off a difficult hybrid era Most rumours suggest a Mercedes deal in 2026

Struggling Formula 1 team Alpine confirmed it will no longer use its homemade Renault engines in 2026. Alpine said in a statement on Monday that its F1 engine factory at Viry-Chatillon on the outskirts of Paris would become an engineering center called Hypertech Alpine, starting from the end of this year.

French manufacturer Renault has confirmed that it will end its works engine effort in F1

Renault has confirmed that its Formula 1 engine activities will cease at the end of the 2025 season. The move has been widely anticipated for a couple of months and has been met with widespread criticism in Renault’s native France, with employees lobbying to reverse the decision.

Renault will stop making Formula 1 engines from 2026, leaving grid team Alpine on the hunt for a new provider.

A statement from Renault has confirmed that it will be abandoning Alpine's 2026 Formula 1 engine project at its Viry-Châtillon factory in France, thereby ending its involvement in the premier class as a works outfit.

The bottom line is that Alpine will no longer be an F1 engine supplier. The post Alpine announced new Hypertech center, will stop making F1 engines after 2025 appeared first on The Manual.

Renault will close its independent Formula 1 engine program after the 2025 season, marking the end of an operation that has built championship-winning engines on and off since the 1970s. The Alpine Formula 1 team will continue,