“FLAVIO,” a senior Formula 1 figure remarked to GP Racing at the British Grand Prix weekend, “has made a huge change to the culture at Alpine, almost overnight.”
You can’t have missed Flavio Briatore’s re-installation for a third stint in charge of ‘Team Enstone’, at the behest of Renault Group CEO Luca de Meo. Flav’s job title is ‘Executive Adviser’ but nobody is fooled, least of all team principal Bruno Famin, now a minister without much portfolio.
The evidence was there for all to see in Barcelona, Briatore’s first weekend in the hot seat, when Alpine-supported Abi Pulling won the first of the F1 Academy races and Flavio led the veritable conga line of dignitaries to congratulate her at the head of the pitlane. Lost in the morass, virtually invisible and…
