Editing Mecachrome (section)

===Formula One===
{{Infobox F1 engine manufacturer
| name          = Mecachrome
| logo          =
| official_name =
| base          =
| founders      =
| staff         =
| debut         = [[1998 Australian Grand Prix]]
| final_race    = [[1998 Japanese Grand Prix]]
| races         = 16
| chassis       = [[Williams F1|Williams]], [[Benetton Formula|Benetton]]
| cons_champ    = 0
| drivers_champ = 0
| wins          = 0
| podiums       = 5
| points        = 71
| poles         = 1
| fastest_laps  = 1
}}
====Association and collaboration with Renault (1977-1986, 1989-2025)====
Since 1977 until present, Mecachrome has been involved with [[Renault Sport]], the motorsport division of Renault (though today Renault Sport's F1 operations are conducted through [[Renault Sport F1]], a separate group company).

From {{f1|1983}}, Renault began to supply other teams with engines; Mecachrome being given the responsibility of preparing and assembling the engines for these customer teams such as Lotus-Renault in 1983 and Ligier-Renault in 1984. In 1985, Renault withdrew from Formula One as a constructor and from engine supply for the 1987 season. In 1989, Renault returned to F1 as an engine supplier to [[WilliamsF1]] (and [[Equipe Ligier|Ligier]] from 1992) with Mecachrome again responsible for preparing the engines for the team.

Renault engines powered Williams and Benetton to six consecutive Constructors' World Championships between 1992 and 1997 and five Drivers' titles with [[Nigel Mansell]] (1992), [[Alain Prost]] (1993), [[Michael Schumacher]] <!-- Please do not add 1994 here: Schumacher's 1994 title was achieved using a Ford engine -->(1995), [[Damon Hill]] (1996) and [[Jacques Villeneuve]] (1997).

In 1995, [[Benetton Formula|Benetton]] acquired Ligier's stock of Renault V10 engines (same specifications as Williams). In 1996, Renault was privatised and announced its withdrawal from Formula One after the 1997 season. In order to avoid protests by shareholders regarding the costs of engine development, Mecachrome agreed to pay Renault for the development work in order to continue the relationship. The 1998 engines supplied to Williams carried the Mecachrome name while Benetton's engines were badged as [[Playlife]].

In 1998, [[Flavio Briatore]]'s company, Super Performance Competition Engineering, signed a distribution agreement with Mecachrome to begin in the 1999 season. The engines were purchased and rebadged as [[Supertec]]. Supertecs powered Williams in 1999, BAR in 1999 and Arrows in 2000. Supertec also continued to power Benetton under the Playlife brand.

In 2001, Renault returned to Formula One by purchasing the Benetton team with the Renault-designed engines carrying again the Renault name. The relationship remained unchanged with Renault responsible for research and design, assembly, preparation, maintenance, trackside support and also tune-up; this relationship helped Renault win constructors' and driver's F1 championships in 2005 and 2006 with [[Fernando Alonso]].

Mecachrome-assembled Renault engines powered the [[Red Bull Racing]] Formula One team to the Constructors' Championship and Red Bull driver [[Sebastian Vettel]] to the World Drivers' Championship in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.

During the start of enhanced hybrid turbocharged power unit regulations, once again Mecachrome helped [[Renault E-Tech Series (Formula One engine)|Renault Energy F1]] hybrid power unit build, development, assembly and tune-up for 2014 season onwards.
Due to the lack of success and unreliability of their engines since the beginning of the V6 turbo-hybrid era in [[2014 Formula One World Championship|2014]], on 29 September 2024, Renault announced that it would be ending its works engine programme and would therefore cease to provide engines for Alpine after 2025, when revised engine regulations are set to be introduced in [[2026 Formula One World Championship|2026]] thereby ending Mecachroome's long standing collobation with Renault in Formula One.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alpine to close works engine programme at the end of 2025 |url=https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/alpine-confirm-they-are-to-shut-down-works-engine-programme-at-the-end-of.2Bcubn03U8oaIOMFVggZDl |access-date=2024-09-30 |website=Formula 1® - The Official F1® Website |language=en}}</ref> [[Groupe Renault]] CEO [[Luca de Meo]] has stated financial reasons as the main reason behind ending the programme, claiming that it would be cheaper to purchase a power unit from another manufacturer than continue to develop one in-house.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Noble |first=Jonathan |title=What we learned about Renault's F1 engine shutdown |url=https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/what-we-learned-about-renaults-f1-engine-shutdown/10661130/ |website=Motorsport.com}}</ref>
====Future====
In May 2025  various media sources reported that Mecachrome had signed a deal to stay in Formula One by being an engine parts supplier.<ref>https://www.motorsportweek.com/2025/05/01/audi-snaps-up-outgoing-alpine-engine-partner-in-new-f1-deal/</ref>