Alpine finally with an improved BWT livery - if they just refined it a bit more with less pink this is close to looking quite nice at long last.
Heard on the sports news today that Jack Doohan`s Formula 1 career is over. Colapinto to take over most likely. It was said that just that shunt at Suzuka that Jack had cost $ 2,000,000.
It’s a harsh world where Race winners and World Champions are being given half a season’s grace to get up to speed with new cars yet Rookies are getting 7 races to show they deserve to remain in the sport. Having said that the writing did seem to be on the wall from the moment Colapinto was signed and his performances last year, suggest his ceiling is higher plus he comes with significant sponsorship. Hopefully Doohan can find a reserve role and build towards another chance in the future.
Yeah, Alpine have wanted rid of Doohan since the moment they signed Colapinto, really ****ty behaviour imo.
You only have to look at who they hired as executive advisor to know that they are operating in the ****ty management style!
I'm don't know who it is, I'm not going to look it up, but am going to guess from that, that it's Flabio.
I’d like to think their initial behaviour was motivated by making sure they had Doohan locked down (learning from the Piastri situation). Once it became clear that Colapinto was available, which I guess was only after Hadjar was confirmed at RB, maybe they should just have put him in straight away. I guess it’s cheaper to let him trigger a performance clause (which he may well have done)?
What I find hard to understand is the very short memories that the alpine management must have. Don`t they remember the total destruction of a Williams that Colapinto was doing virtually every weekend.?
Oliver Oakes has resigned - so,maybe not everyone at Alpine agrees with this decision. Pity, he’d quietly done quite a good job there imo.
Think he resigned because he had very little say in what went on . Flabio ****astory will carry on in his role and assume Oakes job as well . The fact Flab is back at all turns my stomach
Team principal Oakes leaves Alpine after 10 months please log in to view this image IMAGE SOURCE, GETTY IMAGES Image caption, Oliver Oakes joined Alpine in July 2024 Andrew Benson F1 Correspondent Published 6 May 2025 Alpine team principal Oliver Oakes has left the team less than a year after being appointed to the role. A statement by Alpine on Tuesday said Oakes had resigned and that the team had "accepted his resignation with immediate effect". The team said Flavio Briatore would continue in his role as executive adviser and would now also cover the duties Oakes had performed. No explanation was given for Oakes' departure. The team said no further comment would be made and Oakes declined to comment when contacted. A source told BBC Sport that it was Oakes' decision to leave. Others said that it came as a surprise inside the team. Oakes, who moved to Alpine from his Hitech team that competes in the junior categories, was widely considered within F1 to have little power at the team, with former Renault team boss Briatore the real controlling force. Briatore's controversial return to F1 as a team leader 15 years after he was found guilty of fixing the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix as Renault team boss was orchestrated by Renault Group chief executive officer Luca de Meo in July last year. Oakes' departure comes just a day after it emerged that Alpine were poised to drop Australian Jack Doohan after just six races this season and replace him with Argentine former Williams driver Franco Colapinto. Oakes was appointed in July last year after Alpine, who are owned by Renault, removed their previous team principal Bruno Famin and placed him elsewhere in the company. And it continues a turbulent few years at the team that have seen a continuous flux in senior management amid a run of disappointing results for Renault's factory team. Renault also decided last year to end their F1 engine programme, which had been involved since 1977 with only a couple of brief breaks. Alpine will use Mercedes engines next season. Famin also lasted less than a year in his role as team boss after replacing Otmar Szafnauer in July 2023. The American lasted just 17 months. Shortly before Szafnauer's departure, Alpine chief executive officer Laurent Rossi was also dismissed. He had been with the company for just two and a half years. Alpine finished sixth in the constructors' championship last year and are ninth with a quarter of this season gone. Their best result this year is a seventh place for Pierre Gasly in Bahrain, where the Frenchman qualified fifth but started fourth as a result of a penalty for Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli.
One thing I didn’t know , amongst lots of others , is that Dothan’s manager is Flabio . As HYS comment on the BBC , that appears like having a Mouse have a Cat to protect him .
