Bruno Famin to leave role as Alpine F1 chief, team plans to stop making engines from 2026

07/26/2024 11:10 AM

SPA, Belgium — Alpine Formula One team principal Bruno Famin will leave his role to focus on the brand's wider motorsport activities, including a planned end of its factory engine program by 2026. Famin, 62, took over the day-to-day running of Alpine's F1 activities at last year's Belgian Grand Prix in July following the departure of former team principal Otmar Szafnauer. At the same race 12 months later, following Alpine’s disastrous start to the 2024 season and their decline in the F1 standings, Famin has announced he will step down from his role at the end of August. Alpine...