Alpine has supposedly sold 25% of the team to AutoNation who is a long term sponsor of Andretti Autosport
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This is not inherently problematic. Mercedes has several owners.FW17 wrote: ↑03 May 2023, 18:57Alpine has supposedly sold 25% of the team to AutoNation who is a long term sponsor of Andretti Autosport
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https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/alpi ... /10466272/I did not like the first grand prix, because there was a lot of – I'm sorry for saying this – amateurishness, which led to a result that wasn't right. It was mediocre, bad. And the last race in Baku was tremendously similar to the one in Bahrain. That is not acceptable.
Very interesting. Thanks for the contribution, so I can be more attentive to its evolution. I really like knowing these details, I suspected that they had a tire problem but the successive disasters they have suffered had distracted me from the matter.diffuser wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 15:16If they didn't have the Australia Disaster, they could have atleast 28 points now. Bahrain is a rear limited track and that's Alpine weakness. They haven't improved that from last year. Saudi race they weren't fast enough to overtake the Ferrari... That leaves us with Baku. If the crash in Australia didn't force their hands with the upgrades, the disaster in Australia didn't occur, they should have done without the upgrades in Baku. No way to tell how they would have done without them, couldn't be worse.
Laurent Rossi:
https://racer.com/2023/05/08/szafnauers ... struggles/I don’t enter a competition and reset my objective because it’s easier. The team managed to get fourth. They have the means to get fourth, more so than others. I want them to be fourth. If they don’t, it’s going to be a failure.
If they fail by giving 500% best and turning this ship around, there will be extenuating circumstances and it bodes well for the future. If not, it’s the rule of business, there’s going to be consequences. And I won’t wait until the end of the year. The trajectory is not good. We need to fix the mindset of the team ASAP.
He is responsible for the performance of the team – that’s his job. There is no hiding here. Otmar was brought in to steer the team, through the season and the next seasons towards the objectives that we have, which is to constantly make progress, as we did in the first two years – fifth and fourth – and to get to the podiums and therefore, this is his mission to turn this team around and bring it to the performance that we want.
We had a team that performed reasonably well last year, got the fourth position which is the best improvement we had in a long time. It showed a lot of promise. It’s more of less the same people so I don’t accept that we are not capable of maintaining that.
Yes, it is Otmar and the rest of his team as Otmar alone doesn’t do everything, but the buck stops with Otmar. It’s Otmar’s responsibility, yes.
Enstone has never had as much resources at their disposal for a continuous number of years. The runway here is 10 years. There will never be a time where the team will be short.
Aston have less engineers than us, as far as I know. They don’t have their own wind tunnel yet, they don’t have their plant running at the moment. They hyper-charged development by having the right people joining them. It shows that it’s down to creativity and efficiency. It’s the rule of the game, we know that. So no, I’m sorry, I don’t buy the resource excuse.
