Alpine F1 Team Principal resigns with immediate effect
7th May 2025Oliver Oakes resigns as Alpine F1 Team’s Team Principal, with immediate effect, and will be replaced by Flavio Briatore.
Feature image credit: Alpine F1
Briatore will return to Formula 1 as the team principal of Alpine’s F1 team after it was announced that Oakes has resigned from the position with immediate effect.
Oakes had joined the team last year, replacing Bruno Famin, who had previously replaced Otmar Szafnauer.
In the announcement, the team had confirmed that they had accepted Oakes’ resignation. The team said:
“As of today, Flavio Briatore will continue as Executive Advisor and will also be covering the duties previously performed by Oliver Oakes.
“The team would like to thank Oliver for his efforts since he joined last summer and for his contribution in helping the team secure sixth place in the 2024 Constructors’ Championship.”
Alpine confirmed they will not be making any further comment on the matter.
It now means that Briatore would return to the role of team principal, one he had previously held at the Renault team in the 2000’s before being involved with the ‘Crashgate’ scandal, in the 2009 Singapore Grand Prix.
Alpine currently sit ninth out of 10 Formula 1 teams, on seven points – one point ahead of Kick Sauber (10th).
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