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Famin on role as team boss: 'At Alpine we have a fantastic project'

Alpine team boss Famin: 'At Alpine we have an interesting project'

16 August 2023 at 13:54
Last update 16 August 2023 at 15:08
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Alpine's temporary team boss Bruno Famin believes that any changes in the team's management are not going to have any impact on the development of the car. Famin also reveals in an interview with the official Formula 1 website that he finds it fascinating to be involved in Alpine's F1 project.

Famin takes over Szafnauer's role

During the Spa Grand Prix weekend, it was announced that team boss Otmar Szafnauer, sporting director Alan Permane and technical man Pat Fry resigned their roles after the weekend. Szafnauer was replaced by Bruno Famin, who temporarily assumes the role of Alpine team boss. Famin will lead the French team in 'phase 2' and finds the wider project besides being team boss particularly interesting:"It’s not the role of Team Principal, what is super interesting is the project itself. The project of the brand and making a team which is good even better and even better to fight for the win."

"At Alpine you know we have a fantastic project, brand project, to develop the brand, with new products. It’s very ambitious," Famin told Formula 1."Not to change the view, but to reinforce the project and to go faster deploying the brand." The interim team boss says the team is not where they wanted to be at the moment and therefore thinks it is only natural that changes have been made to the Formula 1 project.

'No impact on Alpine development'

Asked if all these drastic changes are going to affect the team and the development of the car, Famin is adamant:"There will be no impact at all. I think all the people in Enstone and in Viry know perfectly what they have to do. They are focused on improving the car at the level. We keep working on that, there will be no impact".