Flavio Briatore insists there was “no management” at Alpine.

The Enstone-bas🐬ed F1 team have und❀ergone major overhaul with their senior figures.

Last year Alpine saw Laurent Rossi (CEO), Otmar Szafnauer (team principal), Alan Permane (sporting director), Pat Fry (chief technical officer), Matt Harman (technical director), Dirk de Beer (head of aerodynamics) and Davide Brivio (director of racing🥀 expansion projects) exit.

F1 stalwart Briatore arrived recently at Alpine as their new executive advisor, and has🎀 swiftly replaced team principal Bruno Faওmin with Oliver Oakes.

“There was no manag🀅ement – I believe the problem of Alpine was this one,” the eccentric Ital🀅ian Briatore said.

“At one point, they chose a few wrong💙 managers. The𓃲 list of the wrong ones was quite long. We have no list about the good ones.

“It’s like this – it’s difficult to manage Enstone. It’s a big te🌞am, a big monster.

“You 𓄧need to be there. It’s very difficult to manage one team l🌳ike Alpine from Paris. You need to have a daily presence.”

Why Briatore chose Oakes

Oakes got the nod from Briatore to be🐟come Alpine’s new team principal, replacing Famin who held the job for♔ a year.

Oakes, a former ra♑cing driver, had founded Hitech Grand Prix b♊ut has now claimed his big break in F1.

“I knew at one po๊int I needed to 🦹change the team principal,” Briatore said.

“I wanted to go much quicker for the team✅. I interviewed two 🌸people.

“Somebody was talking about Oli. We met three or four times for a long time to understand if it was a good possibility to wor🐟k together.

“In this situation, what you need is people with you who have the same ambition. Hꦚe’s꧙ young. He’s one of the youngest principals ever in Formula 1.

“And the feeling as well. I talked with a lot of people, three or four potential team principals. I became convincedౠ Oli was the right choice for the team, working with me and working with everybo♔dy together.”

Briatore added: ”Oli had enthusiasm; he’s young, he’s enthusiastic, 🀅he’s ambitious. He’s what we need in the team.

“To turn around this team, you need young people, you need people with character, patience for the job, the people who understand who are the good♔ ones or the bad ones, the people [who] understand what is going on in the race, people who understand what’s going on in the facto𝓀ry.

“This is the principle. Oli, I believe, he has no exp😼erience at a big team like this one but the talent to be successful.”

Alpine currently sit eighth in the constructors’ champꦰionship ahead of this weekend’s F1 Italian Grand Prix.

They endured a miserable start꧂ to the year which culminated in a collision between their drivers, Esteban Ocon 𝐆and Pierre Gasly, in Monaco.

It w🍌as swiftly announced that Ocon would not continue with Alpine in 2025, and📖 he signed for Haas.

Alpine have chosen to promote Jack Doohan into Ocon’s race seat next year, handing an opportunity to their reserve driver ratherꦇ.