Davide Brivio, Director of Competition Projects, leaves Alpine
Alpine Racing will part company with Competition Projects Director Davide Brivio at the end of the year, leaving the Italian to pursue other career opportunities.
This marks the end of a three-year collaboration between the French team and Davide Brivio, who joined the team before the 2021 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season as the race director. Since then, Davide has taken on the role of director of race expansion projects, which included managing the Alpine Academy, the team’s young driver program.
Under the leadership and expertise of Davide in motorsport, the Academy has trained young drivers in various disciplines of motorsport, with the most recent being Jack Doohan’s participation in free practice 1 in Abu Dhabi. The team wanted to thank Davide for his contributions at Alpine.
Bruno Famin, interim team principal of Alpine: First of all, we would like to thank Davide for his hard work and dedication over the past three seasons. His experience in motorsport has been extremely valuable, particularly in the development and progression of the Alpine Academy.
(D) Davide’s wish is to leave Alpine to pursue other opportunities, and we have accepted his desire by mutually agreeing to part ways. We send him our best wishes for the next chapter of an already impressive career in motorsport. (F)
Davide Brivio: « It was a proud chapter in my motorsport career to be involved in Formula 1 with Alpine. I would like to thank Alpine for the opportunity to experience Formula 1, which was my desire, and also for the chance to impart some of my motorsport experience to its young drivers within the Alpine Academy.
« I wish the best to the team and the Academy for the future, and I am sure we will see many young drivers achieve fantastic things in their careers. Playing a small role in this success will certainly be something I will cherish. I am grateful to Alpine for granting my wish to pursue other opportunities that may (and I hope they will) arise in the future. »
The team principal Otmar Szafnauer and the sporting director Alan Permane have also been dismissed from their positions, while the technical director Pat Fry has left for Williams. All of this happened as Alpine experienced its worst ranking in the Formula 1 constructors’ standings since 2017, after dropping from fourth place in 2022 to sixth place.
Julian Rouse will continue to oversee the Alpine Academy program, which will enter its ninth year in 2024 and currently has nine drivers from eight nationalities, covering four different series, from the FIA Formula 2 to European Karting, and continues to play a central role in the Alpine project.
