After three years, Davide Brivio is leaving Alpine Racing

The Alpine Formula 1 team has declared that Davide Brivio would leave the team at the end of 2023.
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(Motorsports news) Having led Suzuki to its first MotoGP world championship in 20 years with Joan Mir the year before, Brivio joined Alpine as its racing director for the 2021 season. For the 2022 season, the Italian was replaced as director of racing expansion programs, leading the F1 team’s young driver program. Although Brivio and Alpine have mutually decided to part ways at the end of 2023, his present contract with the company does not stretch into the following year.

This move occurs only a few weeks after a Speedweek article claimed he was being considered to take over as Repsol Honda’s MotoGP team manager in lieu of Alberto Puig. In the MotoGP, Honda has been having a rough time lately. Marc Marquez left the team for Gresini Ducati in 2024, and the company has had several top staff changes internally. Brivio has not received an invitation from Honda to join for 2024.

“It has been a proud chapter in my motorsport career to be involved in Formula 1 with Alpine,” Brivio stated. “I would like to thank Alpine for giving me the chance to experience Formula 1—a dream come true—and for allowing me to share some of my motorsport knowledge with its future drivers at the Alpine Academy. “I’m sure we’ll see many young drivers go on to achieve fantastic things in their careers.

I wish the team and the Academy the best of luck in the future. I will undoubtedly treasure the modest role I had in some of that success. “I am grateful to Alpine for accommodating my wish to pursue other opportunities which may and I hope that they will arise in the future.” Brivio’s departure from Alpine represents yet another big personnel change for the group in 2023, following the departure of CEO Laurent Rossi and the appointment of Philippe Krief in his place.

Along with Otmar Szafnauer, the team’s boss, chief technical officer Pat Fry left for Williams, and sporting director Alan Permane was fired. All of this occurred while the Alpine team, situated in Enstone, dropped from fourth to sixth place in the 2022 Formula One constructors’ table, its lowest result since 2017. Julian Rouse will remain in charge of Alpine’s Academy program, the company has revealed.

It’s unclear right now what Brivio plans to do for a living. Before taking over Suzuki in 2013 in preparation for its full-time return to MotoGP in 2015, Brivio served as Yamaha’s team manager from 2004 to 2010. Valentino Rossi left Honda to join Yamaha in 2004, and Brivio played a key role in that deal. As a result, Yamaha won four world championships in 2004, 2005, 2008, and 2009.

Additionally, Rossi’s entrance put a stop to Yamaha’s 12-year title drought and helped the team return to winning ways in 2004 after it had failed to win a race in 2003. This would not occur again until this year.

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