Renault engines may be having fairly torrid time in F1 at the moment, and the Alpine sports car hasn't got past the Gran Turismo stage yet, but we're suckers for nostalgia at PH. You may have noticed. So when a picture was discovered of a very yellow Alpine-Renault on its way to victory at Le Mans we were powerless to resist.
This image is from the 1978 24-hour, where Jean-Pierre Jaussaud and Didier Pironi finally beat the pesky Porsches and gave Alpine-Renault the Le Mans victory it so desperately wanted. Then it focused attention a little more on F1...
The car - an A442B in case you didn't know - looks fantastic, all bold fonts, huge spoilers and bubble roof. Just leaning on its outside tyres with a tiny hint of oversteer, it's everything you'd want in a classic Le Mans pic. And it's just over two months until the 2015 race now...