Alpine’s hydrogen-powered Alpenglow hypercar will race next month

The Alpine Alpenglow will make its racing debut at the 6 Hours of Spa next month, taking in three days of track time across the weekend. And it'll run on hydrogen. As opposed to strawberries, right chaps?

We jest, because this is a seriously cool development from Renault’s spin-off brand which showcases its commitment to trying to make hydrogen-powered internal combustion... work, having first previewed the single-seat racer back in the winter of 2022. 

That rear-mid-engined V8 - developed alongside Derbyshire-based Gibson Technology - is said to send around 867bhp to the rear wheels. This powertrain could even be a test bed for the hydrogen endurance racers Alpine could trial at Le Mans in the future, before trickling down into its road cars. Now wouldn’t that be something.

Something that very much needs to trickle down into its road cars is that wonderfully mad shape, a silhouette more aligned with Gotham City than a Belgian racetrack. Those lines would certainly spice up the next A110, in any case.

Anyway, we won’t have to wait long to see it in action.