Renault will end its Formula 1 engine programme after the 2025 season, the French car company has announced. The decision means Renault's Alpine team will have to buy engines from another manufacturer, which is expected to be Mercedes, from 2026.

Renault entered F1 in 1977, introducing the turbo engine to motor racing’s flagship sport and winning five drivers’ titles and six constructors’ crowns.

The move aims to slash costs and provide the Enstone-based Formula 1 team with an immediate performance boost in 2026 by almost certainly using customer Mercedes engines. Reports suggest that Alpine is not only purchasing Mercedes' power unit but also acquiring the gearbox and rear suspension, similar to what Aston Martin has done.

Renault's stint in Grand Prix will come to an end at the end of the 2025 as the company's engine programme will be closed, leaving Alpine without an engine.

Renault are to stop producing Formula One engines from 2026, ending almost half a century of use in Formula One, the French manufacturer’s Alpine team

Renault will stop making Formula 1 engines from 2026, leaving grid team Alpine on the hunt for a new provider.

A statement from Renault has confirmed that it will be abandoning Alpine's 2026 Formula 1 engine project at its Viry-Châtillon factory in France, thereby ending its involvement in the premier class as a works outfit.

Struggling Formula 1 team Alpine confirmed it will no longer use its homemade Renault engines in 2026. Alpine said in a statement on Monday that its F1 engine factory at Viry-Chatillon on the outskirts of Paris would become an engineering center called Hypertech Alpine,

Alpine announced that the Viry-Chatillon facility outside Paris, which employs more than 300 staff, would become a ‘Hypertech’ centre of engineering with their F1 engine production ending next year

With Renault no longer producing F1 engines, Alpine will have to become a customer team, buying engines from a new manufacturer, with a Mercedes partnership not out of the questio