On Friday, Alpine announced they will part ways with team p♐rincipal Otmar Szafnauer and sporting director A🌌lan Permane following this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix.

Alpine have als꧃o lost ꦚchief technical officer Pat Fry, who is joining F1 rivals Williams to head up the British outfit’s technical division. 

Alpine Motorsports vice presi♍dent Famin has been installed as interim team principal from the Dutch Grand Prix. 

The late🐬st upheaval comes just over a week after former Alpine chief executive officer Laurent Rossi was replaced as CEO.

Speaking in Friday’s FIA press conference in Belgium, Famin admitt෴ed Renault’s F1 works teaಌm have failed to meet their targets. 

"We have ambition and we've decided to make some changes in order to go faster in reaching the level of performance we are aim✨ing for,” Famin said. 

Famin added that the team, Szafnauer and Permane “were not on the same line, on the timeline to recover the level, or rea🌟ch the level, of performance we are aiming for.” 

The Frenchman stressed that the decision was “a mutual agreement, first”, but acknowledged the changes ultimately reflect "a decision of the top ༺🔯management”. 

"It's not something that was decided from one day to another,” he continued. “It’s not t🐼hat I was appointed two weeks ago as vice president of motorsport that I started to work two weeks ago.” 

On Alpine’s succession plan, Famin said: "I ha✃ve just been appointed two weeks ago as a vice president of motorsport at Alpine, of course we have been discussing that topic with the top management for weeks.

"Now I will really assess with the whole team w⛄hat is the real situation and whဣat will be the plan. I will take the necessary time to do this assessment and we will decide later on.

"The season so far, the results do not match our expectations, clearly. We were fourth last year. We know that the top three is very strong but we were aiming to ༒keep that fourth 💧place and to maybe fight a little bit more for the third.

"We are not where we wanted, and we will work hard with all the team, with the Enstone guys, with the Viry-Chatillon guys, to extract the best possible pཧerformance of our car.”

Famin, who repeatedly referred to the reshuffle as “phase two” of Alpine’s project, expressed confide🔯nce that the chang✃es will not derail the team’s 100-race plan to join the front. 

“It’s not going backwards,” he said. “It’s moving forward. Of course its a lot of change but its an opportunity also to have a new foundation or toꦿ consolidate the foundation to go faster.”

He added: “We have a clear project, a clear objective. And it's not only the Formula 1 team th﷽at has the strategy, it's the full brand, and both are totally linked.

"I'm confident we'll make it work. I don't know what's happened 🏅before, as I said we are now launching phase two of the Alpine project, phase one started in '21. 

“We improved a lot of things in Enstone and Viry [Renault's en💟gine base], we are moving the teꦓam forward and we will continue to do that.”