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Sporting director Alan Permane is also leaving after 34 years at Enstone

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pat Fry is also leaving Alpine. He's joining Williams next year.

Alpine won't have any senior management left if they keep this up... Imagine being Ocon or Gasly. They have to feel like they are sitting in a building that's collapsing on top of them...

[–] beefsack 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And Piastri feeling like he dodged a bullet.

[–] chrisphero 17 points 1 year ago

And Alonso as well…

[–] BURN 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who could have seen this coming?

I can’t say it’s a surprise, but I excepted Otmar to last until the end of the season

[–] soviettaters 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I assume the new CEO joined and immediately did all the things he had been wanting to do for ages.

[–] BURN 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

100%

Very much feels like a cleaning house operation. And Rossi had made some questionable decisions. It’ll be interesting if they go a drastically different direction on anything

[–] chrisphero 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really hope this means that they are more serious about F1. But only time will tell.

[–] BURN 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's Renault, I expect that the board will expect magical results from the new CEO with exactly 0 extra in the budget. We'll have to wait and see. Public opinion when they hired Otmar was that it was a good move for the team too.

[–] chrisphero 1 points 1 year ago

This are my fears as well… but it’s just so bizarre, the whole situation.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

And here we thought Ferrari was the biggest shitshow on the grid. In comes Alpine, demonstrating clearly that the only thing they are winning, is the contest for biggest clown fiesta in F1.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Otmar I can understand, but why Alan Permane as well?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I always found his slightly dour nature quite endearing but I have to say he was not very inspiring in his recent Beyond the Grid interview when asked to explain Alpine's present and future ambitions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I honestly had a worse opinion of him after that Beyond the Grid episode. I appreciated how level headed and logical he was, but he also made a bunch of excuses. When they asked him about the 100 races the first thing he did was move the goalpost. I hate to say it but the dude just isn't cut throat enough to be an F1 TP. I would love to see him in a different series though. I think with the right drivers his level headed approach would work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This only can mean one thing... A new 100 races plan!

[–] GeneralEmergency 3 points 1 year ago

Can't tell if this is good or bad for Andretti.

[–] Photographer 2 points 1 year ago
[–] Ejh3k 1 points 1 year ago

More like Out-Mar.