Alpine at 70 coming to the Goodwood Members’ Meeting

By Lizzie Pope
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 | 7 Apr 2025
Classic & Sports Car – Alpine at 70 coming to the Goodwood Members’ Meeting

Alpine will mark its 70th anniversary at this month’s 82nd Goodwood Members’ Meeting.

The French marque’s celebration at 9am on the first day of the 12-13 April event will showcase cars from across its history, honouring the brand’s success in motorsport as well as its roadgoing machines.

Plus, the most powerful Alpine road car ever produced will make its UK public debut that weekend.

Classic & Sports Car – Alpine at 70 coming to the Goodwood Members’ Meeting

A parade of 70 cars for Alpine’s 70th anniversary will be on track on Saturday morning

Alpine’s 70-strong, anniversary track parade around Goodwood’s 2.4-mile circuit will kick-start this year’s Members’ Meeting.

The line-up will include A110s of all generations, A310s, GTAs and A610s, and will bring the marque’s story up to date with its latest model, the electric A290 hot hatch, and hopes to revive memories of Alpine’s motorsport history.

Swede Ove Andersson and Brit David Stone in an A110 claimed victory on Rallye Monte-Carlo in 1971, leading a 1-2-3 for the brand, a feat repeated two years later, Jean-Claude Andruet and Michèle Petit on the top step of the podium on that occasion.

In 1973, that was the first of six World Rally Championship wins for Alpine-Renault and the marque topped the manufacturers’ standings at the end of the season.

Alpine also won the European Sports Car Championship in 1974, then in 1978, Didier Pironi and Jean-Pierre Jaussaud teamed up in an A442B to take overall victory at Le Mans.

Classic & Sports Car – Alpine at 70 coming to the Goodwood Members’ Meeting

Alpine’s rallying and racing heritage will be celebrated

The manufacturer will have static displays of its cars across the two days, which will include the A110 R Ultime. Just 110 examples of this sports car will be built and it’s powered by a 345bhp, 1.8-litre engine, making it Alpine’s most powerful road car of all time.

Also at the 82nd Goodwood Members’ Meeting, the 40th anniversary of Ayrton Senna’s first Formula One win will be remembered when the triple F1 champion’s nephew, Bruno, drives the Lotus 97T that took the chequered flag in the rain at Estoril.

Of course, there’s a packed racing programme, too, including the large-capacity Group 1 Touring Cars of the Gordon Spice Trophy and the smaller-engined Group 1 entrants of the new-for-2025 Win Percy Trophy, the Arundell Cup’s Formula Junior racers and the pre-war British sports cars of the Earl Howe Trophy.

The 14th and final race of the weekend is scheduled to be the Salvadori Cup at 6:20pm on the Sunday, in which World Championship sports cars and production sports-racing cars of a type raced between 1955-1960 will do battle in the fading light.

In addition, the event will host its inaugural competitive GTE shoot-out.

Goodwood Members’ Meeting returns on 12-13 April and is for members and fellows of the Goodwood Road Racing Club. There will be a live stream on Goodwood’s website from 8am on the Saturday, and this will also be broadcast on Goodwood’s YouTube channel and across the brand’s Facebook pages.

Images: Tony Baker/Alpine

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