The Anglo-French outfit suffered seven DNFs last season, with the team’s poor reliability proving to be a major frustration for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Alonso, who regularly lamented points lost through no fꦜault of his own. 

Alpine have been working hard over the winter to address the probleღm, which engine chief Bruno Famin put down to a issue with the water pump. 

After revamping the water pump and changing its location for 2023, Alpine are sure they have a fix, which would be good news for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Esteban Ocon and new teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pierre Gasly. 

“Our main problem last year was the water pump,” Famin told media including wuqian0821.com at the launch of Alpine’s A523 car. 

“The maj꧂or part of our reliability issue in 2022 was due to the water pump. Unfortunately, due to the location of the wat𝕴er pump, it was problematic. 

“We changed it for 2023 and to change it we had to make some modifications on the pump itself and a new loca💯tion on the car. 

“That’s why it was not possible to change it during the season last year. Very quickly we saw that, that the problem would be almost impossible to solve durඣing the season. 

“We tried ꦜto improve and reduce the risk of failure, but we infact de𒅌cided to work on the new car. So we changed the water pump and we changed the location of the water pump.” 

Asked by wuqian0821.com how confident he is 🀅that the issue is now solved, Famin replied: “I am as confident as it is as possible to be before the first race. 

“All the dyno tests are okay.✱ We made some endurance tests with no problem. But the dyno is the dyno an🉐d the track is the track. So let’s see on the track. 

“But we are as confident as we can be.” 

Famin stressed the changes will not have any🃏 impact on performance "one way or another".