Nicolas Lapierre hopes SignatechAlpine will be able to end Toyota's WEC title-winning streak as the two manufacturers go to the Bahrain finale level on points. 'We are a small team, more like a family team and we will try to upset them.'
Watch all WEC races, including this weekend's 8 Hours of Bahrain, live on Lapierre described Alpine has a 'small, family-like' team but hopes the French squad will be able to defeat the much better-resourced Toyota, the marque with which he raced full-time from 2012-14.
"It's a big, beautiful structure in Cologne, they have amazing facilities, they have a good budget, good line-up, two cars. So they have everything. However, the Balance of Performance figures have been slightly adjusted since the previous round to give Alpine a small relative power boost, while the pace at which Toyota can deploy hybrid power has been raised from 120km/h to 190km/h since WEC's last visit to Bahrain in 2021.
"But the hybrid system can only start now at 190km/h compared to last year, so maybe they will struggle a bit more here in terms of traction and tyre degradation.
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