Alpine workers to stage protest over plan to cease production of F1 engines

Pierre Gasly and his Alpine team have made little impression on F1 this year. Photograph: Vince Mignott/MB Media/Getty Images

Employees of the engine manufacturer for the Alpine Formula One team are to stage a protest at Monza on the opening day of the Italian Grand Prix on Friday. They will express their anger at the plan of the team’s owner, the Renault Group, to cease production of their engine by the 2026 season.

The engine is manufactured at the Renault facility at Viry-Châtillon, in the southern suburbs of Paris, where the company has been designing and developing the units since 1977. Renault engines have claimed 169 race wins and 10 constructors’ titles with Williams, Benetton and Red Bull plus two as a works team.