Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are expanding their overseas sports portfolio.
Owning an F1 team will obviously be a very different animal than owning a soccer club, be it first-tier or fifth-tier.
With Alpine, the trio of actors are buying into a team that has reached the top of the mountain, winning F1 titles in 2005 and 2006, but has settled into the middle of the table in recent years, which also saw it rebrand from Renault to Alpine. Alpine hasn't finished outside of fourth to sixth place in the F1 Constructors' Championship since 2016, while cycling through a group of drivers that has included Fernando Alonso , Daniel Ricciardo, Nico Hülkenberg, Carlos Sainz and Jolyon Palmer in that span of time. Its history goes back to 1977, with Renault seeing additional success as an engine supplier.
There was also some bizarre drama with Alpine last year, when it announced Oscar Piastri would be one of its drivers in 2023. PiastriThe team ended up featuring Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly as its current drivers. The pair are currently back-to-back in the drivers standings, with Ocon in eighth and Gasly in ninth, while Alpine sits fifth in the constructors standings. Ocon is responsible for the team's only podium this season with a third-place finish at the Monaco Grand Prix.
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