Alpine A110-50

Alpine A110-50
Overview
Manufacturer	Renault
Production	2012 (Concept car)
Designer	Yann Jarsalle
Body and chassis
Class	Racing car
Body style	2-door coupe
Layout	Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout
Platform	Sport Mégane Trophy
Related	DeZir
Powertrain
Engine	3.5-liter V6
Transmission	Six Speed
Chronology
Predecessor	Alpine A110

The Alpine A110-50 is a concept racing car created by Renault to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1962 Alpine A110^[1] It debuted at Monaco’s GP circuit, where Renault Chief Operating Officer Carlos Tavares raced the A110-50 for four laps of the Monaco track.^[2]

The Alpine A110-50 has all carbonfibre bodywork, a mid-engine layout, and tubular frame.^[3][4] It is built upon the same platform and shares its mechanicals with the Sport Mégane Trophy race car.^{[1][3][4][5][6]} Because the A110-50’s height is lower than that of Mégane Trophy, the roll cage and bracing in the engine bay were lowered in the workshop of Tork Engineering.^[5] The entire car weighs a mere 1940 pounds, and its weight distribution is 47.8 percent front and 52.2 percent rear.^[4] With a naturally aspirated 395-hp variation of the Mégane Trophy’s 3.5-liter V6 based on the Nissan VQ engine,^[4] it has a 456bhp/ton power-to-weight ratio.^[3] The inlet manifold is fed by a new roof-mounted air intake which broadens the engine’s power band, with additional horsepower at all engine speeds.^[5]

A110-50's front splitter and rear diffuser generate ground effect, and account for a third of the car’s downforce, while the other two-thirds comes from the rear wing.^[3][5] The body can be raised with integrated pneumatic jacks for easier servicing.^[4][5] The steering wheel features a color screen and employs the same technology as a Formula Renault 3.5 single-seat race car.^[5] The A110-50 has highly adjustable double wishbone suspension with Sachs dampers.^[3][5] It utilises a six-speed semi-automatic sequential gearbox, which slots longitudinally behind the engine and incorporates a mechanical limited-slip differential.^[3][5]

Designer Yann Jarsalle and Concept and Show Car Director Axel Breun based the A110-50 on the same design language introduced with the DEZIR concept car,^[5] but incorporated several design cues from the original A110, These include: half-domed additional headlights with yellow tinted LED lighting; air intakes on each side echo the ducts on the rear wheel arches of the Berlinette; and painting the body in a modern version of the signature Alpine blue.^[5][7] The aerodynamic body was designed using a process called computational fluid dynamics.^[5]

See also

• Alpine A110
• Renault DeZir
• Mégane Renault Sport
• Nissan VQ engine

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