Bruno Famin discussed the changes that needed to be made inside the team in order to get back to competing for the Championships as the team envisions.
The Alpine F1 team has been stuck in the midfield for a few years, not being able to match the pace of top teams like Mercedes, Ferrari, or Red Bull.
The strange thing is that Alpine is a work team (produces its own power units), and work teams tend to have a competitive advantage over customer teams (teams that power units from others).
The advantage is that they can build power units around their car while customer teams have to build their cars around the power units.
Alpine has not been able to perform at as high a level as other work teams. Moreover, the team was outperformed by customer teams like McLaren and Aston Martin in 2023.
The team's interim principal Bruno Famin, believes the problem behind the lack of performance is individual members of the team aren't "daring" and not using all of their potential. As quoted by motorsport.com, he said;
"What is sure now is that to be performant with such a level of competition you need to use the potential of everybody, and you need to align the planets."
The Alpine F1 team currently has two very closely matched and experienced drivers Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly, who both managed to snatch one Grand Prix podium each.
However, both Frenchmen could not compete with the top five teams in general as they lacked performance in their cars. Famin continued:
"Then we need to be good in extracting the performance of the car, we need to be good in developing the car, in developing the engine, and even if we don't have the best engine, maybe we don't have the best car, I think we can align the planets altogether to have a good car at the end of the story, and to have good results."
Alpine's team principal admitted recently the team is currently not where it wanted to be at this point, but he also suggests it will take some time to get back on top:
"Of course, it won't be for tomorrow, but the work now is to align the planets."
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