Former Aston Martin team principal is the new head of Renault’s F1 team. For the Italian manager, Racing Director in 2021, the management of new talents and the mission to explore opportunities for Alpine in new areas of motorsport
Otmar Szafnauer is the new Alpine F1 team principal, the team announced in an official note. Bruno Famin will be Executive Director of Alpine Racing, and both will rejoin the CEO. Laurent Rossi.
brivio and alpine
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The reorganization decided in the Alpine area does not seem to give a leading role to Davide Brivio, who arrived in 2021 with the role of Racing Director. The former n ° 1 of Suzuki MotoGP, who in 2020 had brought the Rider title back to the Hamamatsu house with Joan Mir, will be director of the Racing Expansion Projects, which foresee both the improvement of the Academy’s activity for young talents and the search for opportunities for Alpine in various fields of motorsport. Brivio’s arrival in Alpine, following his triumph in MotoGP, was wanted by the president of Renault, the Italian Luca De Meo. The great team building skills of Brivio, the note reads, “will be extended to all areas of motorsport”: in recent months, rumors of a possible farewell have become more and more insistent around the former Suzuki.
alpine, who does what
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The CEO Rossi explained: “We needed to streamline the structure to have very quick decisions. Szafnauer will coordinate Enstone, Viry and the work on the track, Famin will be the referent for the engines. We are aiming for greater integration between the two teams, no more watertight compartments. Brivio? It will have the task of finding talent, not only drivers, but also mechanics and engineers and will be instrumental in the development of Alpine as a multidisciplinary brand that ranges from F1 to WEC. By 2025 Alpine must make a profit by selling cars. This is my mission. “, concluded Rossi. Basically Szafnauer, who in F1 has worked with Bar, Honda, Force India, Racing Point and Aston Martin, will therefore be the head of the team in the World Championship. For Bruno Famin, on the other hand, the task of managing the engines and “exporting” the technical benefits deriving from the experience in F1 to road production, with the goal repeatedly illustrated by De Meo of relaunching the Alpine brand on the automotive market as recently shown by the ‘arrival on the market of A110.
the new alpine a522
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The car for the 2022 F1 World Championship, the Alpine A522, will be presented on Monday 21 February at 6.30 pm: the drivers are the highly confirmed Fernando Alonso (Spanish, two-time F1 world champion with Renault in 2005 and 2006) and Esteban Ocon (French, in 2021 brought the Alpine to their first victory in GP Hungary).
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