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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]
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.
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 ...
The "mutual" decision to move on comes just 18 months after Szafnauer's high-profile poaching from Aston Martin.
In 2012 Permane became the Sporting Director for the team now called Lotus F1 a position he retained as the team transitioned back into Renault F1 and then into Alpine F1 Team. On 28 July 2023, Permane was released by the team and his time with Alpine concluded after the Belgian Grand Prix .
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 ...
Franco Colapinto has joined Formula 1 team Alpine as a reserve driver for this year after racing for Williams in 2024. The 21-year-old Argentinian signed a multi-year deal with Alpine, which ...