Aug.5 Alpine's works F1 engines could fall silent even earlier than planned, according to emerging French media reports. Before he stepped down as team boss in the past few days, Bruno Famin admitted at Spa that Renault's works team was treading very carefully as it plots a new course as a paying user of customer power units for 2026. That means the end of the works engine operations at Viry-Chatillon. 'For the time being, nothing is done,' Famin insisted. 'In France, we have unions and a very strict social process. And we cannot take any decision until having reached the end of that process. 'I mean, we are talking to some PU manufacturers, but we cannot sign anything until this process...
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