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He is the vice president of Alpine Motorsport since July 2023. He left the role of team principal of Alpine F1 Team in August 2024, being replaced by Oliver Oakes. He has since moved to Renault's mainline motorsports divisions. [2] [3] He was technical director of Peugeot Sport before taking command of the latter in 2012.
Alpine F1 Team, currently racing as BWT Alpine F1 Team for sponsorship reasons, [9] is the name under which the Enstone-based Formula One team has been competing since the start of the 2021 Formula One World Championship. [10]
Szafnauer remained with Force India as they were sold in 2019 and became Racing Point and remained with them still when they became Aston Martin for the 2021 season, before leaving the team in January 2022. [8] In February 2022, he joined the BWT Alpine F1 Team as team principal. [9] He left Alpine after the 2023 Belgian Grand Prix. [10]
The team retained the Renault name for the 2011 season, [43] but starting in the 2012 season, Genii's primary sponsor, Lotus Cars, [44] [45] signed a deal to rename the team to Lotus F1. The team had no corporate connection to the old Team Lotus. To honor its hometown, the team's chassis designations all contained an "E" for "Enstone". [44] [46]
French automotive company Renault is still the principal owner of Alpine and rebranded the team formerly known as Renault F1 before the 2021 season. Alpine is Renault’s sports car brand. The ...
Oliver "Oli" Oakes (born 11 January 1988) is a British former racing driver, entrepreneur and team principal and director of Hitech GP. [1] In July 2024 he was announced as Alpine F1 Team Principal for the remainder of the 2024 season onwards. [2] He was the 2005 World Karting champion, [3] and was once a part of the Red Bull Junior Team.
He then joined Lotus F1 Team as Chief Race Engineer in 2013 and then joined McLaren the following year in an identical role. [3] By 2017, Pilbeam returned to Enstone as Chief Race Engineer, working closely with Sporting Director Alan Permane and the engineering team.
On 2 November 2019, the Renault F1 Team announced that Fry would join the team for the 2020 season. [16] Renault F1 Team was rebranded as Alpine F1 Team for the 2021 season. Before the 2022 season, Alpine named Fry as their chief technical officer. He oversaw all technical activities, set performance targets, and identified future technologies ...