A colourful picture was painted in describing the drop of Alpine to the bottom of the competitive order, but all is not lost.
Former F1 driver Anthony Davidson explained that the fall of Alpine this season has come as a result of the team completely starting again with their car concept.
They have taken a completely different design tack with the car this time around, the team admitting as much when it was launched, but in explaining this, former BAR driver Davidson said the team may well end up reaching higher highs eventually – but they have fallen backwards as a result of this step, which they took having been among the midfield for such a long period of time.
“You look over your shoulder and you see a very different set of foundations going on over there. Anyway, regardless, you start building up and you build as high as you can go, and you get to the point where things become a little bit rickety, and you realise that your competition is still going strong, and they’re still feeling the thing’s not moving an inch.
“And I think that’s what’s going on now with the cost cap, and these complex cars. It’s almost a case, like Alpine have, they’ve just broken up the foundations, they’ve gone ‘You know what? We’re off to a dead end here. Redo everything from the start, build from the ground up.’
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