Last year’s pre-season Alpine launch was filled with optimism. Pierre Gasly was joining a team with aspirations of cementing themselves as the “best of the rest” in Formula 1.<\/p>\n
Otmar Szafnauer remained confident in the team’s ‘five-year plan’ after a reasonable start to the regulatory changes.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately for the team’s fresh arrival, the situation has declined significantly in the last twelve months.<\/p>\n
Instability at upper management is hardly a rarity for the French manufacturer.<\/p>\n
Fred Vasseur, Cyril Abiteboul, Marcin Budkowski and even Alain Prost are among the senior personnel to come and go.<\/p>\n
The last of these names, a 4-time F1 World Champion, criticised former CEO Laurent Rossi for his management of the team.<\/p>\n
It was only a few months later that Rossi would oversee the catastrophic loss of Oscar Piastri and Fernando Alonso<\/a> in just one summer.<\/p>\n As it stands, Alpine is under the leadership of Bruno Famin – who was originally brought in as a temporary team principal.<\/p>\n This off-track instability coincides with disappointing performance and development. Heading into 2024, expectations for team Enstone have been very low.<\/p>\n