Former Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer has criticised Renault’s ‘controlling’ management of their F1 team following his dismissal at the Belgian Grand Prix.
Szafnauer’s departure from the Enstone-based team was announced mid-way through the race weekend at Spa-Francorchamps.Szafnauer leads sudden exodus of key Alpine F1 personnel
It marked more significant changes at Alpine, with Pat Fry making the switch to Williams, while Philippe Krief and Bruno Famin were installed in senior management roles recently. Giving his side of the story, Szafnauer explained to Jason Stein on SiriusXM’s Cars & Culture how the management at Renault were too interfering.
“The parent company wanted to have a lot of control in a lot of areas of the racing team,” he said. “More than I’ve ever seen before. You know, the commercial area, the marketing area, HR, finance, communication, all that stuff reported not to me, but around me, to somebody else in the bigger organisation, and they all act like a navy, and we have to be pirates in order to win.
“So if you say all else equal – the cars equal, the drivers are equal, the powertrain’s equal, your knowledge of the tires is… but what isn’t equal is the fact that a Mercedes or a Red Bull have HR, finance – especially finance now because of the cost cap – all the commercial aspects and communication reporting to Christian and we don’t, guess who’s going win? Red Bull.
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