Last week, Alpine announced the signing of Flavio Briatore, who was given the position of executive advisor to the team.
In his new role, Briatore will report directly to Renault chairman Luca de Meo and help team leader Bruno Famen determine development paths. Niki Lauda once had a similar range of responsibilities at Mercedes, where he served as a non-executive director and was effectively Toto Wolff’s right-hand man and advisor.
Today Flavio Briatore arrived at the Alpine base in Enstone, as reported by the team’s press service by publishing a photo of him and Famen. For Flavio, this is not his first appearance in the Enstone base, but in a sense a return to his roots.
In the 1990s he was the manager of the Enstone team, when it was still called Benetton, and Michael Schumacher won two of the seven titles.
In the 2000s, Briatore continued to run everything at Ensuton when the team changed hands and became a works project of the Renault group. After the scandal surrounding Nelson Piquet Jr., who crashed his car during the Singapore Grand Prix in 2008 at the insistence of Briatore and Pat Symonds, Flavio was fired as manager and banned from Formula 1 for more than ten years. Today he is back .
Source: F1 News
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