You're listening to the Aramco 2020 F1 car reveal series.

The race is on and Alpine has joined the F1 2022 party by revealing the new A522 in a launch in Paris.

Although actually all it did was revealed to show cars with a different livery on each,

given the real car is being assembled in Barcelona.

But we did get some renders of the genuine article, meaning it's ninth of the new cars we've been able to take a look at.

I'm Ed Sture and joining me to answer all your Alpine questions are Mark Hughes and Gary Anderson.

Well Mark, another launch without real cars. It's been a bit of a mixed bag this year,

but given Alpine is supposed to be running on a filming day in Barcelona tomorrow,

that's perhaps a perfectly reasonable excuse. It does sound like it's a little bit of a rush to get

the car together though, which obviously isn't that unusual at this time of year. Yeah, a little bit, I think a little bit of a rush to get the car together though which obviously isn't that unusual at this time of year yeah a little bit um i think a little bit behind schedule and in the

build in general from what i've been hearing um and so you know it's it's it's more important

to have the car running it um than to have the the actual car at the at the launch but um but I think the the launch being so late probably

tells you where they're really at as well but none of that will matter if the car's good so

let's let's see and Gary obviously late launch bit of a rush to get the car going, that probably sounds quite familiar.

Yeah, I mean, all this render stuff was taken over from that. I mean, I remember many times a few bits of tank tape and a few wooden blocks underneath the chassis holding up and making it look good was the order of the day. But it is a bit disappointing that we've got to that level where you know the teams can't be

honest with us the whole thing of its Formula One is it's all about sponsorship and all those

names on the sides of the car like it or lump it's that's what pays for it all so at the end of the day

you know the media I'm not saying just us but the media in general are the people that take that

message to the public.

And it would be nice if the teams would recognize that, that the media are quite important in this equation

because at the end of the day, you know, people aren't going to sponsor cars if nobody sees what's going on.

So a lot of it is promotion of the sponsor, but, you know, be honest about it.

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