Alpine’s Shameless Antics After Disrespectfully Ousting Otmar Szafnauer Spark Hostile Criticism

Published 08/04/2023, 10:30 AM EDT

No matter who it is and when it happens, an untimely and premature end to a relationship always hurts. This is exactly what is happening between Alpine and Otmar Szafnauer and the sporting director Alan Permane. In fact, Permane was part of Alpine and Renault for an eternity. Such dismissals in the middle of the season even with “mutual consent” still hurt. There are surely a lot of unsaid things and that is exactly what everyone wants to talk about. However, Alpine’s interim team principal Bruno Famin shamelessly tried to dust this under the rug.

The new boss might not have been sympathetic to Szafnauer and Permane’s sacking. However, that does not mean everyone will simply forget about the entire incident. So when the interim French boss tried to sweep the entire incident under the rug instead of addressing the elephant in the room all he received was criticism. Veteran F1 commentator David Croft was among many criticizing the new boss speaking on the latest Sky Sports F1 podcast.

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“Bruno Famin sat in a press conference minutes after the team just got rid, by mutual consent or whatever, of their 34-year standing sporting director and their team principal, with Pat Fry announced the previous day and all he could talk about is the Alpine motorsport program. Nobody wanted to hear that and it wasn’t important to anybody except Renault and Alpine and the corporate top brass,” said Crofty.

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We believe Crofty spoke for everyone while expressing his feelings. However, despite all the criticism and sympathy, Szafnauer is doing just fine and looking forward to a new challenge.

After the Alpine ousting Otmar Szafnauer is keeping a positive outlook toward life in F1

The Romanian is a seasoned F1 boss. His former team is already on top and fighting the front runners. Szafnauer wanted to get Alpine also to the top, however, his 100-race promise was broken. Despite the disrespectful and untimely ousting, Szafnauer is keeping a positive outlook.

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Szafnauer said, “Yes, as you can see, my Alpine adventure has just ended. Now I can join a new F1 team from now on. Let’s wait and see.”

The Romanian is clearly in a calm state of mind. It will be interesting to see if he will secure a role before the end of the summer break.

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However, with the current state of all teams, there is no room for a team principal. A different managerial role perhaps?

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Mahim Suhalka is a senior F1 Author at EssentiallySports. Having written over 1000 articles, Mahim specializes in core sports coverage. Having followed the sport for a long time, his articles contain excellent analysis of the sport and he dives deeper into the technicalities of this complex sport.

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Alpine’s Shameless Antics After Disrespectfully Ousting Otmar Szafnauer Spark Hostile Criticism

After the Alpine ousting Otmar Szafnauer is keeping a positive outlook toward life in F1

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