Alpine is still unstable with its managers. Oliver Oakes, until yesterday Executive Director of the French team, has renounced his position. From that same moment, Flavio Briatorie went on to cover the functions performed by Okes, while continuing as an executive advisor.
From Marcin Budkowski’s departure in January 2022, The team has experienced a remarkable instability in its leadership, with six directors in front in just three years. Instead of Budkowski, in February 2022, precedent of Aston Martin, Otmar Szafnauer assumed the role of team director. His management concluded after the Béligca Grand Prix in 2023, when he left the position by mutual agreement.
Bruno Famin followed Szafnauer. Initially Executive Director in charge of motor development, Famin assumed the role of the team after the departure of the Romanian-American. In August 2024, he left the position to focus on other sports activities within the Renault group.
Alpine F1 has experienced instability in its leadership with six directors in three years
-The British expilot, Oliver Oakes, was appointed team director in July 2024. Likewise, in 2015, Oakes founded Hitech Gran Prix, British motor racing team that has been evolving for almost a decade. His mandate has also been brief, since he has announced his resignation just a few hours ago. Some of the motivations to leave the post are decisions controversial with the spiky and unsatisfactory sports results.
For his part, Flavio Briatore had been set by the competition before being appointed executive advisor. “Briatore will focus on the high -level areas of the equipmentincluding the search for the best talents and providing information on the pilot market, refining the existing project through the evaluation of the current structure and the advice on some strategic issues within the category, ”commented the team in 2024 when they signed BriTore.
In 1997, he left Benetton, but returned three years later when Renault took the team. It was then when He started working with Fernando Alonsowith whom two pilot World Cups and two others were raised.
In 2009, Briatore abandoned the French team after exploiting the case crashgatefor which a plan was drawn so that, in the Grand Prix of Singapore, the pilot Nelson Piquet stars against the wall to give Fernando Alonso victory.
