Few car manufacturers can boast a motorsport heritage quite as impressive Alpine – as well as numerous rally wins, the 1973 World Rally Championship constructors’ title, an outright win at Le Mans in 1978, it won the LMP2 class of the World Endurance Championship in 2016. It makes sense for Alpine, then, to take its new A110 to the track. It has already created a car for a one-make amateur series, the A110 Cup, but has decided to launch into the competitive area of GT racing.

At this year’s Geneva motor show, along with two new trim levels for its road car, Alpine has launched a GT4 race car based on the A110. The new competition car will go head-to-head with a vast array of GT4-spec cars, including Porsche’s Cayman GT4, BMW’s M4 GT4, Audi’s R8 LMS GT4, Ginetta’s G55 GT4 and Mercedes-AMG’s GT4. The car will be seen competing around the world in the SRO European GT4 Series, the international Creventic 24 Hour series as well as numerous individual events, including the Spa 24 Hours.

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The Alpine A110 GT4 retains the same aluminium chassis, double-wishbone suspension and 1.8-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine as the road car. The engine makes it one of only a few four-pot-powered cars currently eligible for GT4 races. However, don’t think that its engine might hamper it; Alpine say the engine has had ‘significant power upgrades’. The gearbox is not standard as it is fitted with a competition sequential gearbox. Oddly, the A110 race car still has the air-conditioning fitted making it perfectly suited for endurance races.