by VALERIO BARRETTA
Alpine remains
Rumors arrived from England this morning regarding a possible future sale of Alpinethe team clearly most in difficulty at the start of the 2024 season. However, the Enstone team has flatly denied these rumours.
“Rumors and stories about the team being sold are false. The team is not for sale, this is categorical“, we read in a statement from the team.
So many revolving doors
Over the past two years, Alpine has been through management hell. The intentions of reaching the podium in the constructors' championship clashed with bitter realityand the fourth place in 2022 was only the latest high point for a team that already experienced decline last season, finishing in sixth place, an abyss from the top-5.
Fernando Alonso and Oscar Piastri have already thought about unmasking the management problems within Alpine in 2022, the former signing with Aston Martin, the latter sensationally denying the official nature of his promotion to starting driver for the 2023 season It is clear that any company does not expose itself with official press releases without being certain of what it is announcing, but this was not the case for Alpine, which faced a epochal foolwhich was followed (at very different times) by the farewell of almost all the prominent figures, starting from Laurent Rossi, passing through Alain Prost, Alan Permane, Pat Fry, Davide Brivio, Otmar Szafnauer, ending with the recent departures by Matt Harman, Dirk de Beer and Bob Bell.
This dismantling has had cascading effects on the track (Alpine is at zero share together with Williams and Sauber after four GPs) and has justified the rumors of a sale, also because the poor results certainly do not help the French brand. Which, however, now shows that it wants to remain in Formula 1, perhaps waiting for that 2026, a medium-term redemption objective already circled by other teams.
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