Can Alpine’s latest regime change shift its course?
The Alpine Formula 1 team is seemingly stuck in a constant state of beta, dogged by serial leadership changes and rumours that its parent company wants to sell. But, as STUART CODLING explains, new team principal Oliver Oakes and ‘executive advisor’ Flavio Briatore insist Alpine can be turned around – and that it’s not for sale…
Among the curious customs of the British and Canadian parliaments is the tradition in which newly elected speakers of the house are ceremonially ‘dragged’ to their chair. Supposedly this faux-unwillingness reflects the frequency with which previous holders of that office were parted with their heads after delivering news the monarch found disagreeable, unpalatable or downright vexatious. Sadly this isn’t true, although Henry VIII beheaded no fewer than three former speakers after they’d left office.
History doesn’t record whether Oliver Oakes was dragged to the much-inhabited chair behind the Alpine team principal’s desk on his first day at Enstone. Probably not, since the consequences of falling out of favour here are rather less fatal.
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Can Alpine’s latest regime change shift its course?
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