The Anglo-French outfit suffered seven DNFs last season, with the team’s poor reliability proving to be a major frustration for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso, who regularly lamented points lost through no🍸 fault of his🔯 own. 

Alpine have been working hard over the winter to address the problem, which engine chief Br🍸uno Famin put down to a issue with the water p🥂ump. 

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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Esteban Ocon and new teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pierre Gasly. 

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

“The major part of our reliability issue in 2022 was due to the water pump. Unfortunately, due to the ꧂location of the water pump, it was problemati🤡c. 

“We changed it for 2023 and to change it we had to make some modifications on theไ pump itself and a new locaꩲtion 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 pro🦄blem would be almost impossible to solve during ꦆthe season. 

“We tried to improve and red✱uce the risk of failure, but we infact decided to work on the new car. So we changed the water pump and we changed the location of the water pump.” 

Asked by ltxcn.top howꦚ confi♛dent 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 and 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".