Why the biggest change Alpine’s chiefs want to see isn’t its engines

While there has been a lot of media interest in Alpine’s engine plans, there are bigger changes that its bosses Flavio Briatore and Oliver Oakes are more focused on

If there is one element that a manufacturer Formula 1 team needs to be successful, it is that of focusing on the racing and not getting dragged down by corporate politics.

Multiple works team failures in past decades – from Toyota to Jaguar to BMW – all have varying elements of their operations losing their core focus amid boardroom management interference from above.

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Author Jonathan Noble

Jonathan Noble is Motorsport.com’s Formula 1 editor. Having graduated from University of Sussex Jonathan worked for sports news agency Collings Sports reporting on F1, F3, touring cars and other sports, with articles appearing in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters, Autosport and other publications. In 1999 he moved to Haymarket Publishing to become a senior editor at Autosport Special Projects, and one year later he became Autosport’s grand prix editor. In 2015 he moved to Motorsport Network, becoming the F1 editor for Motorsport.com. He is also a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers, and sits on the FIA Media Council.

Jonathan has won multiple awards for journalism - in 1991 he was the winner of the Guild of Motoring Writers’ Sir William Lyons’ Award for young journalists, in 2010 he was awarded the Outstanding Individual accolade for consumer journalism in the Haymarket wards, in 2011 he won Haymarket’s Scoop of the Year, and in 2018 he was awarded a prestigious Medaglia d’Oro at the Lorenzo Bandini Awards for his contribution to F1 journalism.