Alpine A330
The Alpine A330 was a Formula 3 racing car , built and used in 1968 and 1969 by the French racing team Renault Alpine .
In 1968 Alpine built another Formula 3 racing car. The vehicle was considered easy to control and had a short chassis based on a simple tubular space frame. In 1968 the Alpine A330 was the only Formula 3 car (apart from vehicles from Eastern Europe) that did not have a Ford engine in the rear. The self-made engine developed by Alpine in Dieppe developed 115 hp and was inferior to the competition from Ford by 10 to 15 hp.
For Alpine, Formule France, the French Formula 3 championship , was an absolute priority. The further development of the car was slowed down by a tight budget, but Patrick Depailler achieved three second places and several places in the points, thus proving the quality of the small racing car.
In 1969 the car was used in parallel with the new Alpine A360 . Depailler finished fourth in the French championship with the A330, one place behind his teammate Jean-Pierre Jabouille , who drove the A360.
