Alpine's successful season of finishing 'best of the rest' represented a small milestone in their self-assigned '100-race plan' to return the Enstone team to Constructors' Championship contention. After unlocking some car performance in the early races of 2022, Alpine vanquished in their P4 battle against McLaren, albeit with reliability problems threatening to derail their efforts. Whilst they showed glimpses of speed, particularly in the wet condition during qualifying for the Canadian GP and the Japanese GP race, the performance chasm between F1's established 'top three' and the rest of the grid mostly remained. Might the existing gap to the top…
