Alpine’s 2025 F1 car breaks cover in Bahrain shakedown

Alpine’s new A525 Formula 1 car was revealed on Monday ahead of the 2025 season with the team conducting a shakedown at Bahrain International Circuit.

Officially a filming day, the test was run over a maximum of 200km (124 miles) with demonstration tyres, as per the regulations.

Both Pierre Gasly and his new, rookie team-mate Jack Doohan got a first taste of their new machinery, with the day “split evenly” between them, team principal Oliver Oakes said.

Alpine had previously revealed its latest blue-and-pink livery at the F175 Live event in London, but its actual 2025 car had remained concealed until now.

“It is only a shakedown, limited running, so it’s not like we are driving the car at its full potential, 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,” Gasly commented.

Alpine revealed its line-up for the upcoming pre-season running, which will also take place in Bahrain this week. Gasly and Doohan will share the track on all three days, with the Australian driving on Wednesday morning, Thursday afternoon and Friday morning, while the Frenchman will logically take over on Wednesday afternoon, Thursday morning and Friday afternoon.

“It will be three busy days where we have many things to run through in order to develop the A525 ahead of the season start,” Doohan said, while Oakes mentioned “multiple areas of interest for us to keep learning and progressing”.

Gasly previously gave Alpine an ambitious top-five goal in the 2025 constructors’ championship, which would require the squad to be the ‘best of the rest’ behind the four established top teams, and therefore to beat every other rival including the wealthy Aston Martin outfit – which legendary designer Adrian Newey is joining on 1 March.