The Enstone-based outfit revealed a virtually all-new challenger for 2024 at its factory on Wednesday, with technical director Matt Harman claiming that the only carry-over component from last season was the steering wheel.
It hopes that the aggressive targets the team has set for the new car, which was only finished in the early hours before the launch, will pay off in helping it move up the grid throughout the season.
Harman had alluded to the team taking things to the edge, and he even suggested it had gone too far with some design aspects.
"We have pushed some elements to the limit and, in some cases, beyond that," he said.
This comment may have been about rumours over the winter that Alpine had not passed all of the FIA's mandatory crash tests the first time.
Famin, who as team principal is also head of Alpine's motorsport projects, confirmed to Autosport that the team had indeed had to retake some tests which it subsequently passed, but says that is something he welcomed rather than was unhappy about.
"We had to redo some tests, some homologations tests," he said. "But I think it's just the normal process.
"If you pass all the tests the first time, it means that you have not been ambitious enough. So, let's see what will be the final result, but the fact of having to redo some tests is not at all a criticism."
Source: Autosport