{"id":48611,"date":"2025-05-07T11:28:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T11:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/?p=48611"},"modified":"2025-05-07T11:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T11:28:17","slug":"alpine-team-principal-oliver-oakes-quits-after-ten-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/alpine-team-principal-oliver-oakes-quits-after-ten-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpine Team Principal Oliver Oakes Quits After Just Ten Months In The Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alpine team principal Oliver Oakes has resigned his position after less than a year leading the struggling team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/tag\/alpine\/\"><strong>Alpine<\/strong><\/a> released a statement which said Oakes had resigned with &#8216;immediate effect&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Executive adviser <strong>Flavio Briatore<\/strong> will therefore take over Oakes&#8217; duties, while continuing in his own role.<\/p>\n<p>There has so far been no explanation for Oakes leaving. Alpine have said they will make no further comment, while Oakes has also declined to offer a reason for his departure.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the decision was made by Oakes himself, with his resignation coming as a surprise to those within the team.<\/p>\n<h2>Oliver Oakes Resigns After Alpine Drop Jack Doohan For Colapinto<\/h2>\n<p>Oakes joined Alpine from <strong>Hitech<\/strong>, which competes in the junior categories.<\/p>\n<p>It was commonly believed that he had little real power within Alpine, with former Renault team boss Briatore thought to be running things behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>Briatore spent 15 years in the F1 wilderness after being found guilty of fixing the 2008 <strong>Singapore Grand Prix<\/strong> while in charge of Renault.<\/p>\n<p>His return in July 2024 was thanks to Renault Group CEO Luca de Meo, with Renault owning the Alpine team.<\/p>\n<p>Oakes&#8217; resignation follows almost immediately after news broke that Alpine were replacing Australian rookie driver <strong>Jack Doohan<\/strong> after just six races.<\/p>\n<p>Doohan had performed poorly, crashing on several occasions. The decision was therefore made to drop him in favour of reserve driver and former Williams driver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/jack-doohan-replaced-franco-colapinto-alpine-formula-1\/\"><strong>Franco Colapinto<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48567\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48567\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/colapinto-560x313.webp\" alt=\"Franco Colapinto alpine\" width=\"560\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/colapinto-560x313.webp 560w, https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/colapinto-924x516.webp 924w, https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/colapinto-350x195.webp 350w, https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/colapinto-768x429.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/colapinto-1536x858.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/colapinto.webp 1870w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alpine have dropped rookie driver Jack Doohan, replacing him with Franco Colapinto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Colapinto will be racing alongside teammate <strong>Pierre Gasly<\/strong> at the <strong>Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix<\/strong> at Imola.<\/p>\n<p>But while Doohan has been poor, not everyone agrees with replacing him so soon into his rookie season.<\/p>\n<p>No details have emerged about why Oakes chose now to leave the team, but there is a possibility that he opposed the decision to drop Doohan.<\/p>\n<h2>Is Being Alpine Team Principal A Poisoned Chalice?<\/h2>\n<p>Being team principal at Alpine seems to be one of the least secure jobs on the Formula 1 grid.<\/p>\n<p>Oakes spent only 10 months in the role, joining in July after former principal Bruno Famin moved elsewhere within Renault Group.<\/p>\n<p>Famin himself only replaced<strong> Otmar Szafnauer<\/strong> less than a year before his departure, while American former team boss Szafnauer spent just 17 months at the helm.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41005\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41005\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41005\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Alpine-Racer-Pierre-Gasly-560x374.jpg\" alt=\"Alpine Racer Pierre Gasly Looks On.\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Alpine-Racer-Pierre-Gasly-560x374.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Alpine-Racer-Pierre-Gasly-924x616.jpg 924w, https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Alpine-Racer-Pierre-Gasly-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Alpine-Racer-Pierre-Gasly-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Alpine-Racer-Pierre-Gasly.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frenchman Pierre Gasly has recorded Alpine&#8217;s only points of the season so far.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The team have been struggling for a number of years, finishing sixth in the constructors championship last year.<\/p>\n<p>Next season, they will cancel their engine programme after almost 50 years, becoming a <strong>Mercedes<\/strong> customer team for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>So far this year, Alpine sit ninth in the championship, with their best finish a seventh place for Pierre Gasly in Bahrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alpine team principal Oliver Oakes has resigned his position after less than a year leading the struggling team. On Tuesday, Alpine released a statement which said Oakes had resigned with &#8216;immediate effect&#8221;. Executive adviser Flavio Briatore will therefore take over Oakes&#8217; duties, while continuing in his own role. 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