Alpine accelerates the search for a team director
Since Oliver Okes’s resignation after the Miami GP, Flavio Briatore began the search for a successor, the name already has it and would close before the summer break.
Alpine is in the process of re -attached to pieces after some strong cimbronazos that creaked strong in Estone. First, the surprising resignation of Oliver Oakes after the Miami GP left the team without director. And, if something was missing, during the weekend of Canada, Luca de Meo announced his departure from the position of CEO World of Renault, Matrix company that has Alpine within its portfolio. Since Oakes left the ship, Flavio Briatore, Executive Advisor of De Meo, took command and officiated in reality the position of Máximo Pope, although he could not do it in the papers because he does not have a link with contractual with the team itself. Therefore, Dave Greenwood assumed the role of being attentive to the administrative tasks of the position in the team running Pierre Gasly and Franco Colapinto.
In the middle of the treasurer, to Alpine’s continuity in the World Cup was in doubt. The company’s board of directors would have already confirmed its commitment to the F1 to move rumors of sale of the team. Also Briatore’s position was put in dance because he was personally recruited by De Meo to hold the position of his advisor. Waiting for the appointment of a new rhombus world CEO (De Meo will continue to act until July 15), the Piedmontés would continue in position with the person who is finally chosen, according to the Planetf1 site. The main candidate is Denis Le Vot, current CEO of Dacia (also belongs to Renault), who has the approval of the French governmentled by Macron, which has 19.7% of the shareholding package. LE VOT would be a continuity of De Meo. The external alternative is leading Maxime Picat, man from Stellantis.
As for the director’s position, the name chosen is that of Steve Nielsenwho had already been tempted as soon as Okes resigned, but had declined the offer. Briatore returned to the load with English, whom he knows very well because he worked with him in Benetton and then in Renault as sports director. Then, the engineer went through Caterham, Toro Rosso, Williams and in 2017 he assumed as sports director of F1. Then he was 11 months as a sports director of the FIA and is currently consulting F1. Precisely for this last position, in case of reaching an agreement with Alpine, a period of forced license must be passed for having privileged information.
Brost and Alpine want to have closed the agreement before the holiday period of the Boreal summer, which will begin on August 3, after the Hungary GP.
