The situation at home Alpine after the Miami GP not the best. The team, in fact, is experiencing a start to the season for sure diverse from what there is waited. The mere fact that it has lost the role of fourth force in the confrontation with Aston Martin says a lot about the moment the French team is experiencing.
Laurent Rossi not happy: "You don't learn from mistakes here"
Alpine's moment of "crisis" is not only noticeable from the outside, but also at the level internal use. In fact, the CEO Laurent rossi it turned out to Canal +, a well-known transalpine broadcaster, who, bluntly, heavily criticized the management of some tenders, or rather Bahrain e Baku: “I am noting not only an obvious lack of performance and rigor in the results, but also potentially a state of mind that is not up to the past standards of this team. I didn't like the first GP, because there was a lot of amateurism which led to a result that was mediocre, bad. In Baku the race was tremendously similar to the one in Bahrain and this is not acceptable. It's okay to make mistakes, it's a fundamental principle, you learn from your mistakes. But you have to learn, and when you make the same mistakes 2 times it means you haven't learned and you don't take responsibility. This is not acceptable".
Szafnauer answers
The response from the Alpine team principal was not long in coming Otmar Szafnauer. In reality, however, the words of his CEO were not communicated to him, but they were discoveries directly from him. His answer focused precisely on this, in which Szafnauer confirmed that he will speak to Rossi as soon as possible: “Reading something like this in the newspapers doesn't put pressure anymore, everyone wants to do well here. There are experienced technicians and top-level engineers: we put pressure on ourselves, we just have to solve the problems. I have no idea why these statements, you'll have to ask him, but I will ask him. This weekend has been very busy and I haven't had the chance yet.".
With the week off, the meeting will undoubtedly take place soon, but it cannot be denied that the situation at Alpine, as well as Szafnauer's future, are far from simple.
ARTICLE BY FRANCESCO ORLANDO
