Renault’s newly appointed CEO, François Provost, has moved to silence the rumours regarding Alpine once and for all.

Renault will close its independent Formula 1 engine program after the 2025 season, marking the end of an operation that has built championship-winning engines on and off since the 1970s.

Renault signed its first customer team of this new era in 2007, where the French marque began powering Red Bull - a partnership which yielded four consecutive double titles between 2010 and 2013.

Renault's sale of a large stake in its Formula One team to Genii Capital will halve net costs in 2010 compared with 2009, Jean-Francois Caubet, the team's managing director, said on Wednesday.