Paris, February 7, 2024 – ELF, a TotalEnergies brand, and Alpine Racing have renewed their partnership in the FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC), in a multi-year contract. The Alpine A424, flying ELF’s colors, will join the extremely competitive Hypercar class in the eight races of the 2024 season, including the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The Alpine brand’s sporting career has been linked to ELF lubricants ever since 1968. A partnership that claimed the Manufacturers title in the World Rally Championship in 1973 (six wins, including Monte Carlo), both the Driver and Manufacturer titles in the 1974 European Sportscar Championship, and a prestigious victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1978.
Alongside ELF, Alpine has previously enjoyed success in the LMP2 category, with two European Championship titles (2013, 2014), two FIA WEC Endurance Trophies (2016, 2019) and three wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans (2016, 2018, 2019).
The two A424 prototypes, like all competitors in the World Endurance Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans, will run on Excellium Racing 100, TotalEnergies’ 100% sustainable fuel.
Thierry Pflimlin, President, Marketing & Services at TotalEnergies:
"For over fifty years, ELF and Alpine have shared a passion for technological excellence and competition, and our Company is very pleased to extend the ELF brand’s commitment to Alpine at the highest level of the FIA World Endurance Championship. This is the perfect platform to demonstrate ELF lubricants’ performance, reliability, fuel savings and emissions reduction. Motor sports have always been part of ELF’s history and are associated with its image. Altogether, it has claimed eighty world titles across all disciplines."
Bruno Famin, Vice President, Alpine Racing:
"We are happy to mark this new milestone with ELF, which has supported us since Alpine’s return to the FIA World Endurance Championship. We are very much looking forward to the first race in Qatar, where Les Bleus will take on the highest category with pride, supported by our loyal partners."
ELF's engagement and passion for racing and motorsports has been going strong since 1967. Recognized worldwide, the brand is associated with excitement, technological expertise and premium quality products. Thanks to its partnerships, notably in Formula 1 with Renault and in MotoGP for many years, as well as its current partnership with Alpine in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), ELF has forged a solid reputation on the world stage.
To meet the specific requirements of elite racing, the engineers and technicians at TotalEnergies Additives & Fuels Solutions develop customized lubricants for superior performance. These lubricants have made ELF a benchmark in the world of motorsports. All of ELF's racing partners benefit from its laboratories' latest technological innovations.
TotalEnergies is a global multi-energy company that produces and markets energies: oil and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables and electricity. Our more than 100,000 employees are committed to energy that is ever more affordable, more sustainable, more reliable and accessible to as many people as possible. Active in nearly 130 countries, TotalEnergies puts sustainable development in all its dimensions at the heart of its projects and operations to contribute to the well-being of people.
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