BWT Alpine System One Group will make the quick journey to Silverstone Circuit for this weekend’s 2025 British Grand Prix. Pierre Gasly and Franco Colapinto will contest Spherical 12 of the FIA System One World Championship on the dwelling race for the Enstone manufacturing unit.
The crew’s general headquarters have been primarily based within the UK since its inception as Toleman in 1982 earlier than transferring to the state-of-the-art Enstone facility in 1992. Nestled on the sting of the charming Cotswolds countryside in Oxfordshire, the manufacturing unit, and Enstone, has turn out to be synonymous with the crew and been repeatedly developed alongside the modern sport.
Enstone is the house of the chassis operation for BWT Alpine System One Group. Nearly all of the design and manufacturing of the A525 takes place on the facility together with gearbox growth and integration, electronics and analysis and growth. Enstone additionally options an on-site wind tunnel and CFD facility, the driver-in-loop simulator, race engineering places of work, operations management room and serves as the bottom of the race crew.
Pierre Gasly: “The race in Austria was very irritating for the entire crew. Now we have loads to analyse and assess after what was a really tough Sunday afternoon, the place now we have misplaced additional floor to our rivals. The optimistic from the weekend was our tempo in Qualifying the place we have been solidly by to Q3, nevertheless, we have to perceive the way to carry our race efficiency to an identical degree. Now we focus right away on Silverstone for Enstone’s dwelling race, which is a brief drive away. The British Grand Prix is at all times an excellent occasion with an enormous capability crowd. The circuit is a historic one for System One with iconic corners comparable to Copse, Maggotts and Becketts, and Stowe that make it one in all my favorite tracks of the season. I do know there’s going to be lots of crew members within the grandstands all weekend who will be capable to see their exhausting work on monitor and I might like to have the ability to reward them with a very good exhibiting.”
Franco Colapinto: “The weekend in Austria was difficult. We made some optimistic steps between Apply and Qualifying, nevertheless, the grid is so tightly packed each single element on monitor counts and we have been on the fallacious finish of not making it by Q2. We struggled with the stability of the automobile within the race and after struggling some contact we misplaced a while and in the end couldn’t do higher than P15. I’m trying ahead to getting out on monitor at Silverstone, the place I had my first Grand Prix outing for Free Apply 1 final yr. The circuit is a well-known one on the System One calendar and one I am positive each driver seems to be ahead to with its excessive speeds and iconic corners. It’s a native race for the crew with the manufacturing unit simply down the highway in Enstone, so it’s good to have the ability to spend a while there with the crew in between the double header races. We’re retaining our give attention to one race at a time and persevering with to work collectively to make enhancements every weekend.”
