On the day theAlpine presents its new A522, the French team obviously looks to the upcoming appointment with the 2022 championship, the year in which the car will aim to replicate or improve the results achieved last season. However, always in the future, the CEO of the transalpine team, Laurent Rossialso opened an important parenthesis dedicated to the possible entry into Formula 1 of Andretti team from 2024. The US team, owned by former driver Michael Andretti – son of the 1978 world champion, Mario – is in fact planning his debut in the top flight with the creation of a team called Andretti Global.
While waiting to understand what the negotiations will be, it is not clear who will be the potential technical partner of the possible new-entry; in this regard, the Alpine has offered itself to be able to guarantee one supply of power unitprovided that certain conditions are met: “We are always happy to have new teams in our sport – admitted Rossi in a statement reported by racer.com – it’s good for the category and it might even be good for us. We’ll see. If they ask us and we will be oriented and structured in a certain way, perhaps we would be open to helping Andretti. For now, it is impossible. The important thing now is to concentrate all the forces on our team to improve performance. Last year we did pretty well, but honestly, not at great levels, which are what we will be aiming for this season. We will first have to make sure that the team grows and gets to where it needs to be – he added – because, if we are not equipped, this hypothesis could be a distraction that we would pay dearly “.
Speaking of the organization of the team, Rossi added further considerations on the arrival of Otmar Szafnauer in the role of new team principal, with the latter that could be an extra boost to be able to launch the Alpine in the fight for the top positions: “Last year we split the responsibilities between three people – has explained – because this was the optimal way to replace the team principal who had left us. So, I thought we should need someone who was the common point between Enstone and the track and who would allow Pat Fry, Matt Harman, Bruno Famin to work together while optimizing the cost ceiling. This is a team principal who responds to Otmar’s qualities, who will bring indisputable qualities and, probably, will help us to raise our level of competitiveness ”.
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