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

The Enst🌜one꧅-based F1 team have undergone major overhaul with their senior figures.

Last year Alpine saw Laurent Rossi (CEO), Otmar Szafnauer (team principa🤡l), 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 Famin with Oliꦍver Oakes.

“There was no management – I believe the problem of Alpine was this one,” the eccentric Italian 𝔍Briatore said.

“At one point▨, they chose a few wrong managers. The 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 team, a big mo꧟nster.

“You need to be t✅here. It’s very difficult to manage one team like Alpine from Paris. You need to have a daily presence.”

Why Briatore chose Oakes

Oakes got the nod from ﷽Briatore to become Alpine’s new team principal, replacing Famin who held the job for a year.

Oakes, a former🌄 racing driver, had founded Hitech Grand📖 Prix but has now claimed his big break in F1.

“I knew at one point I needed to change the team pr🍨incipal,” Briatore said.

“🐟I wanted to go much quicker for the team. I interviewed two peo🅠ple.

“Somebody was talking about Oli. We met three or four t💝imes for a long time to understand if it was a good possibility to work together.

“In this situation, what you need is people with you who🍃 have the same ambition. He’s 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 bec👍ame convinced Oli was the right choice for the𓃲 team, working with me and working with everybody together.”

Briatore added: ”Oli had enthusiasm; he’s young, he’s enthusiastic, he’s ambiti🌠ous. He𝓡’s what we need in the team.

“To turn around this team, you need you𒈔ng 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 goiꩵng on in the race, people who understand what’s going on in the factory.

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

Alpi⭕ne currently sit eighth ♐in the constructors’ championship ahead of this weekend’s F1 Italian Grand Prix.

They endured a miserab💝🀅le start to the year which culminated in a collision between their drivers, Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly, in Monaco.

It was swiftly announced that Ocon would not continue with Alpine in 20ꦉ25, and he signed for H𓄧aas.

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