Alpine’s new A525 has run on track for the first time ahead of the 2025 F1 season.
Pierre Gasly and his new team mate for this year, Jack Doohan, drove the car in a filming day at the Bahrain International Circuit today. The pair shared a total of 200 kilometres of running as permitted by F1’s rules.They will participate in the three-day test session at the circuit which starts on Wednesday.
“Despite the overcast and strong gusts of wind, we have had a good day’s running in Bahrain with 200km completed split evenly between Pierre and Jack,” said team principal Oliver Oakes. “It is important to give them a first go each and allow them both to have a first feeling at the wheel ahead of a busy three days of testing later this week.”
Doohan, who will contest his first full season as a grand prix drive this year after making his debut in the final round of last season, said the team “had a good first day on-track here in Bahrain.”
“The car felt good so thanks to everyone at Enstone and Viry-Chatillon for their time and dedication in getting ready for 2025.”
This year will be Alpine’s final season running Renault power units built at the company’s Viry-Chatillon facility. Alpine will use Mercedes power units from 2026.
After his first run in the car, Gasly gave a positive assessment. “It is only a shakedown, limited running, so it’s not like we are driving the car at its full potential,” he said, “but the initial feeling felt smooth and I am just looking forward to getting going and having a proper run later this week for official pre-season testing.”
Pictures: 2025 Alpine A525 on track
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Leo B
24th February 2025, 17:33
This is the car the other drivers are going to see a lot of this season.
Jere (@jerejj)
24th February 2025, 18:03
Even though these images are real, they still look somewhat virtual.
Senproman
24th February 2025, 19:03
All bar the very top image give F1 game vibes about it, I agree.
BasCB (@bascb)
24th February 2025, 19:43
Funny, isn’t it. I guess these were photoenhanced in a program a bit.
gDog (@gdog)
25th February 2025, 12:14
I think it’s just the angles and the motion blur. They obviously had a camera car on track, so the angles are more similar to a game view (as compared to track side) and combined with the motion blur gives a similar effect that we’re more used to seeing in game vs real world.
gDog (@gdog)
25th February 2025, 12:16
Also possibly the natural vignette from the lens which is often artificially added to virtual images to give them a more “real camera” look but ironically less obvious in normal trackside photography.
Des Mo
25th February 2025, 14:21
The clown image is missing from these early shots. They will be using it to cement their brand image this year.