Alpine's French-based Formula One employees spoke out on Tuesday against the Renault-owned carmaker's decision to cease engine production at the Viry-Chatillon facility at the end of next season.

The announcement came on Monday, days after Alpine's aggrieved factory staff made a last appeal to Renault CEO Luca de Meo, urging him to reconsider the plan to transition into a customer team in Formula 1. Ultimately, the Renault board reached its final decision on September 30th.

Renault will end its Formula 1 engine programme after the 2025 season, the French car company has announced. The decision means Renault's Alpine team will have to buy engines from another manufacturer, which is expected to be Mercedes, from 2026.

Renault put an end date on their F1 engine production this week and plenty of you had some things to say about it.

Renault’s call to end its Formula 1 engine programme at the end of 2025 has far-reaching consequences

Renault are to stop producing Formula One engines from 2026, ending almost half a century of use in Formula One, the French manufacturer's Alpine team announced on Monday.

Struggling Formula 1 team Alpine confirmed it will no longer use its homemade Renault engines in 2026. Alpine said in a statement on Monday that its F1 engine factory at Viry-Chatillon on the outskirts of Paris would become an engineering center called Hypertech Alpine,

Renault Group, the parent company of the Alpine F1 team, confirmed in a statement on Monday that the group would stop building its own F1 power units following the 2025 season. The team’s power unit facility at Viry-Chatillon will become the Hypertech Alpine facility,