The former CEO of Alpine F1 has announced his departure from the French team shortly before the 2022 Formula 1 season officially begins, a gap that Laurent Rossi’s men will have to fill.
With such an important season in the making as 2022, in which the regulatory revolution In the premier category of motorsport that the FIA and Formula 1 initially planned for 2021, the main objective of the teams is to hit the key and try to find something new that the rest of the rivals have not discovered.
On the other hand, keep a hierarchy stable stable regarding the organization of the team also helps in what is devised in the factories and later sees the light in the circuits.
However, first Aston Martin with the departure of Otmar Szafnauer, and now Alpine, with the announcement of Marcin Budkowski’s farewell to the French formation. from this same january 13, they have blown up the structures of their respective teams as soon as the year started.
Trading cards?
At paddock run the rumor that Szafnauer could join Fernando Alonso’s team accompanied by the sponsorship of BWT and coach Andrew Green, while Budkowski would fill the gap left by the Romanian manager at Aston Martin.
“I would like to thank Marcin Budkowski for his commitment and contribution to the results of the team in the last four years,” he confessed Laurent rossi, CEO of Alpine. “The team is totally focused on getting the car ready for the first race in Bahrain and taking a step further in performance.”
“I will follow the progress of the team with affection in the coming seasons”
For his part, Budkowski assured that “I have really enjoyed being part of the Renault management team and then the Alpine F1 Team, working with a group of people with so much talent and dedication», A group he leaves behind. “I will follow the progress of the team with affection in the coming seasons,” he concluded.
The project of tricephaly that Alpine presented in March of last year is thus shattered with the departure of one of its fundamental pillars, now counting ‘only’ on a Davide Brivio who continues with his adaptation to the ‘Great Circus’, coming from MotoGP, and a Laurent Rossi who long ago threw the team on his back.
The “organizational changes” announced by the latter in the final stages of 2021 are beginning to emerge, with the intention of assembling a team capable of meeting its dream goals: “I want the team to compete for the podiums and win at the end of the next regulation , that is to say, 2024/25».