Alpine Blames Previous Management For Their Current Poor Performance

Tuesday, 16 April 2024 at 00:00

Updated at Tuesday, 16 April 2024 at 00:11

Alpine's team principal, Bruno Famin, suggested that previous management is to blame for his team's current performance.

Alpine scored zero points in the first four rounds of the 2024 season, and the team is standing last in the championship ahead of the Sprint weekend in China.

The French team has two great drivers: Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon. However, the team is struggling with the car so much that neither of them has been able to achieve a better position than P13 so far.

The situation seems so bad that some pundits, like Eddie Jordan, have started suggesting that Alpine will not stay in F1 and that the team will be put up for sale.

However, the team's spokesperson recently denied these speculations, and even the team principal, Bruno Famin, told F1 in a recent interview that his team "is absolutely not for sale."

"We have a real project with Alpine. We have the project to develop the Alpine brand awareness globally through motorsport and Formula 1 in particular."

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"We have the full support of the top management. The team is absolutely not for sale. We will keep pushing to reach our goals."

Alpine went from P4 in 2022 to P6 in 2023 and now stands dead last. Famin admitted it's a very tough period for his team, but the goal remains the same: to fight for podiums and victories as soon as possible.

"It's not a fun period. We are not where we want to be in terms of performance, we are not doing the project to be P15 or P16."

"We want to be ahead, we want to develop the performance of the car – and we want to fight for podiums and for victories as soon as possible."

Alpine fired its previous team principal, Otmar Szafnauer, and a few key team members in mid-2023 because they apparently disagreed on the trajectory and how long it should take to reach the top.

The team has only taken a step back since then, but the current team principal blames the situation and poor performance on previous management. He said:

"The car we have now is the result of previous management. But what is important is what we are doing now. And I'm happy with what we are doing. Of course the way is very long, and we have a lot to improve."