Alpine A210

The Alpine A210 is a sports car prototype built by Alpine that competed in sports car racing from 1966 to 1969. It descends from the M63, M64 and M65 prototypes of the early 1960s, which used small Gordini tuned Renault engines. At the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans Alpine took a 1-2-3 in the index of energy efficiency with a 1.3 litre engine, and an A210 driven by Mauro Bianchi won the 1966 Macau Grand Prix for touring cars. Seven A210s started the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans, mostly with the 1.3 litre inline-four engine, and a 1.3 litre and a 1.5 litre car won their classes. A V8 powered version, the A211, was unveiled in 1967 and a major redesign, the A220, followed in 1968. After the poor results of those two Alpine left sports car racing from 1970 to 1973 and returned in 1974 with the A441, which led to the overall win of the Renault Alpine A442 at the 1978 24 Hours of Le Mans.