Briatore's controversial return exposes Renault's absurd F1 attitude
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Published 2024-06-24
Team principal Bruno Famin confirmed he will work closely with Briatore, who is an advisor to the whole Alpine F1 organisation.
Briatore’s role is characterised as being focused on what are called ‘top level areas’. So that includes driver decisions, assessing the current structure and advising on strategic matters.
Briatore has never taken full responsibility or apologised for his part in the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, where Nelson Piquet Jr deliberately crashed to cause a safety car that helped team-mate Fernando Alonso to win.
His appointment suggests the current structure needs to be assessed, but an honest assessment might turn the glare away from Enstone and Viry, where the cars and engines are produced by teams of very capable people, and lock onto those at the top of Renault who expect success on the cheap.
00:00 Briatore's Alpine role
02:14 His short-lived ban
04:05 Engine speculation
06:21 Underestimating F1
07:56 The real endgame?
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All Comments (21)
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Bringing a con artist and borderline gangster into the organization should work out just fine
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Ryan Reynolds has been real quiet since investing into Alpine
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Wouldn't it be hilarious if Flavio's first advise is to get rid of Famin considering he was in charge of the worst engine program prior to his promotion to team principal
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Alpine are like: "Hey, Red Bull have an old, out of touch, senile, loose cannon, as an advisor, and they seem to be doing alright. You think we should do similar? I've got someone in mind...."
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Who would’ve thought that Cyril irritable was the only thing stopping the entire team from putting on the clown shoes
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Imagine alpine as a red bull powertrains customer lmao
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Their performance might actually improve with a customer engine.
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Andretti: can't go into F1 Alpine: Fine, I'll do it myself
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Waiting for the Alpine sponsorship deal with Rich Energy next...
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Why is the race not indignant regarding Pat Symonds? Because he’s a Brit?
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But allowing Andretti into F1 would be questionable because of competitiveness...
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Renault have been down on power for years now. How is this consideration even a downgrade when a customer team is currently at the front of the field.
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Imo Briatore is exactly what Alpine needs. They need to put Briatore in charge of everything.
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Im struggling to understand how this English channel thinks its "absurd" when Pat Symonds and McLaren are fair game.
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Briatore is a highly intelligent person, who has twice built Team Enstone up to win championships. Yes he is controversial for rather obvious reasons, and very understandable why people aren't happy about his return, but he has that win at all costs attitude and strong leadership required to succeed. Very clear to see why Alpine want him. Twice, he built the team around a young world class driver. He also knew he has no technical knowledge, so he hired many top class engineers. He made sure he could compensate for his limitations. Highly talented man. Would class him as a flawed legend.
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So… the corruption is a feature not a bug.
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what an absolute joke of a team
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Man if only there was a US based team ready to become a full works team and actually try to compete at the top level in F1.
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The people who call the shots at Renault and Alpine are absolutely hopeless. They have no idea what they are doing, clearly.
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Spygate was arguably much worse than Crashgate, but because it was done by a British team you don't see the witch hunt.
