Although not a huge benefit, Alpine believe having no other teams to supply with power units works in their favour.

As well as powering their own works team when it returned to the grid in 2016, Renault also supplied the likes of Red Bull, Toro Rosso and McLaren with power units in the V6 turbo-hybrid era.

But once the McLaren deal had concluded in 2020, Renault have supplied only Alpine since, the division of Groupe Renault which took over from their works team from 2021.

That means Alpine are the only team on the grid with an exclusive engine, which team boss Otmar Szafnauer thinks offers a slight advantage as it removes the need to factor in the wishes of another team.