For 1968, new regulations banned the four to seven litres engines used by various Alpine rivals such as Chaparral, Ferrari, and Ford which increased Alpine's hopes. The new Alpine contender, the A220, was very different than its predecessor. It was wider, larger, and had bigger wheels. It adopted a right-hand drive layout different from all of its predecessors which were left-hand. This was judged better as most of the turns on circuits are right-handers. At the 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, only one of the four A220s that entered finished. It was just ahead of three A210s, which again did a 1-2-3 on the performance index. More bad results followed in 1969.