DSC understands that the key decisions from Geely on whether it will purchase the current Alpine Endurance Team Hypercar programme will likely be made following meetings early next week.
Negotiations between the Chinese OEM and Renault Group looked very positive during the summer break, with talks centred on overcoming intellectual property issues around control systems.
Since then, though, there have been some significant corporate obstacles to deal with, principally surrounding not the race programme but parallel joint activities and ventures for road cars and powertrains between the two groups.
Should any transfer of the assets of the team take place, the intention is understood to be a mild restyling of the current Alpine A424 ahead of homologation for 2027.
If that occurs, the FIA WEC would field an unprecedented ten two-car factory Hypercar teams next season, plus the returning privately entered #83 AF Corse Ferrari 499P.
