Alpine F1 Team

The Enstone team first competed in Formula One in 1981 as Toleman, headquartered in Witney, England. Following acquisition by the Benetton Group in 1986, it raced as Benetton and won the 1995 Constructors' Championship; driver Michael Schumacher won the Drivers' Championship in both 1994 and 1995. Renault purchased the team before the 2000 season, and from 2002 it raced as Renault F1 Team. The Renault works operation won back-to-back Constructors' Championships in 2005 and 2006, with Fernando Alonso taking the Drivers' title both years.

After a period under Genii Capital ownership and Lotus F1 Team branding from 2012 to 2015, Renault reacquired the team and raced it under the Renault name through 2020. In September 2020, Groupe Renault announced the rebranding to Alpine, effective from the 2021 season.

Alpine debuted in 2021 with Fernando Alonso — making his return to the team after stints in 2003–2006 and 2008–2009 — alongside Esteban Ocon. The team's sole race win as Alpine came at the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix, where Ocon took victory. It marked the first win by a French driver in a French car powered by a French engine since Alain Prost's triumph at the 1983 Austrian Grand Prix in a Renault. Alonso added a podium at the Qatar Grand Prix.

BWT became title sponsor in February 2022. Otmar Szafnauer joined as team principal; Fernando Alonso departed for Aston Martin ahead of 2023 after Alpine declined to offer a multi-year extension. A Contract Recognition Board hearing in September 2022 determined that Alpine did not hold a valid contract with Oscar Piastri, leaving him free to join McLaren. Pierre Gasly joined on a multi-year deal for 2023. The team finished sixth in the 2023 Constructors' Championship; internal analysis indicated the Renault power unit was costing approximately half a second per lap relative to leading units. Szafnauer and sporting director Alan Permane both departed during the Belgian Grand Prix weekend.

Gasly and Ocon continued as the driver pairing in 2024. Flavio Briatore returned to Team Enstone — which he had led from 2000 to 2009 — in May 2024 as executive advisor, a contentious appointment given his prior departure following a race-fixing scandal. Team principal Bruno Famin departed during the Belgian Grand Prix weekend; Oliver Oakes replaced him from the Dutch Grand Prix. Ocon was released early from his contract after the Qatar Grand Prix, with Jack Doohan making an early debut at the Abu Dhabi finale.

The season's highlight was a double podium at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, with Ocon second and Gasly third behind race winner Max Verstappen — Team Enstone's first double podium under the Alpine name.

Gasly was retained alongside Doohan for 2025, Alpine's last season as a Renault works team. The season began poorly, with Alpine the only team to score no points in any of the first three rounds. Doohan accumulated four penalty points on his FIA Super Licence after just two races; Gasly was disqualified from the China Grand Prix result due to an underweight chassis. Performance analysis at the Japanese Grand Prix suggested the Renault power unit was costing at least 0.6 seconds in the second sector at Suzuka alone. Oakes resigned following the Miami Grand Prix, with Briatore assuming de facto team principal duties.

Doohan lost his race seat to Franco Colapinto on a rotating basis from the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. Alpine recorded three points finishes in the second half of the season — in Britain, Belgium, and Sao Paulo — but a pointless Qatar weekend confirmed a last-place finish in the Constructors' Championship, 46 points behind ninth-placed Sauber. It was nonetheless the highest points total ever scored by a team finishing last in the championship.

On 30 September 2024, Renault formally announced it would end its Formula One engine programme at the conclusion of the 2025 season, citing a lack of competitive results across the entire V6 turbo-hybrid era since 2014. The withdrawal ended a works relationship that had underpinned the team's two championship-winning periods. Alpine lost its status as a Renault works team and became a Mercedes customer from 2026, while Groupe Renault maintained majority ownership of the racing operation.

In June 2023, Renault Group sold a 24% stake in Alpine Racing Limited to a consortium led by Otro Capital, RedBird Capital Partners, and Maximum Effort Investments for 200 million euros. Further minority investors included Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, Rory McIlroy, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Juan Mata, and Anthony Joshua. By 2025, Renault had reduced its shareholding to approximately 60% through additional stake sales. From 2027, Gucci replaced BWT as title sponsor, with the team set to compete as Gucci Racing Alpine Formula One Team.