The announcement came on Monday, days after Alpine's aggrieved factory staff made a last appeal to Renault CEO Luca de Meo, urging him to reconsider the plan to transition into a customer team in Formula 1. Ultimately, the Renault board reached its final decision on September 30th.

Renault Group, the parent company of the Alpine F1 team, confirmed in a statement on Monday that the group would stop building its own F1 power units following the 2025 season. The team’s power unit facility at Viry-Chatillon will become the Hypertech Alpine facility,

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.

Renault's stint in Grand Prix will come to an end at the end of the 2025 as the company's engine programme will be closed, leaving Alpine without an engine.

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 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,

Alpine F1 will continue — but not with Renault power. The automaker says it will no longer build its own engines for Formula 1, starting in 2026.