According to the rumors, the offenses of the brother of the now former Team Principal seem to be the reason behind the decision to leave the role in the F1 team
Were some flash resignation those of Oliver Oakes, which on Tuesday has left its role as a team principal of the French Alpine for “personal reasons”. Timing and suspicious motivations, to the point of letting doubt that, behind sudden farewell, there was much more compared to simple internal reasons for a team now in an identity crisis. And in fact it is so: as revealed by The Telegraph, Oakes would have resigned following the arrest in the precautionary custody of his brother William.
arrest
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A clue, in truth, had already given him Flavio Briatore, now Team Principal to interim Of the stable: “In the last 24 hours it has been said that Oli and I had different opinions, all this is completely false and far from the truth”. Forty -eight hours and the truth seems to have come to the surface: William Oakesthirty -one -year -old brother of Oliver, He was arrested last Thursday in the Silverstone Park area on charges of transfer of illegal goods. According to reports the The TelegraphOakes was surprised in possession of a large amount of cash and retained in pre -trial detention after an order of the Northampton court last Saturday.
The link with Mazepin
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But it’s not over here. William Oakes holds the role of director in the Formula 2 Hitech GP teamteam founded in 2015 together with his brother Oliver. Since February 2022, the youngest of the Oakes brothers has also become the owner of the British team, after Dmitry Mazepin, father of the former Haas Nikita, has sold his majority share. A suspicious operation, which took place a few days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine (for which the oligarch was sanctioned by the government) and capable of raising doubts in the British Parliament, where the deputy Liam Byrne highlighted that “no consideration has been paid for this operation that involves an international relevance company”.
Step back
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The story outlined by The Telegraph It is far from the hypotheses of a conflict inside the team between Oliver Oakes and Flavio Briatore and in some ways confirms the “personal reasons” mentioned in the press release. For the moment the parties involved have not spread further comments on the matterwith the only Oakes who yesterday reiterated how the farewell to Alpine was “a personal decision”. “I decided to take a step back – explained the former TP – Flavio Briatore was like a father for me and gave me the opportunity to be responsible for the team”.
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