Alpine: Management changes ushered 'new mindset' within team

Interim Alpine Team Principal Bruno Famin feels the sweepingmanagement changes made over the summer of 2023 have ushered in a"new mindset." In July, it was announced that CEO Laurent Rossi wasleaving the team, with news coming through the Belgian Grand Prixweekend that Team Principal Otmar Szafnauer and Sporting DirectorAlan Permane were to leave after the Spa weekend. Chief TechnicalOfficer Pat Fry also left, citing a lack of ambition to improvebeyond fourth, for a similar role at Williams. In December, racingdirector Davide Brivio also left the Enstone squad, with Famininstalled in the summer by Renault CEO Luca de Meo to oversee theteam, which claimed sixth in the 2023 Constructors, with 53 fewerpoints than in 2022. But during his brief time overseeing the team,Famin believes he has seen enough to ensure the team is heading inthe right direction. "We made some quite good, quite big changes atthe end of July within the team, and this created a new mindset onthe track-side team," Famin told media including RacingNews365. "'m quite happy with what I've seen so far. I think we made somequite good races in terms of strategy execution since then. I "I'mstill assessing with both the factories, to really see how toextract more performance and I think one of the key things istrying to get all the people working together: both sites but alsowithin each of the sites to extract all the potential we have. "Wehave a lot of potential, but the difficulty is to put everybodytogether, everything together, to create more performance, this iswhat I’m assessing now."