Fernando Alonso has received harsh news. Just ten months after being hired as team manager, Italian Davide Brivio has asked to leave the Alpine team. The executive has not adapted to his new role in the French team and has asked to return to the Suzuki MotoGP team where in 2020 he was champion guiding Joan Mir from the wall.
The news has set like a bomb within an Alpine team that had the Italian for its winning project of 2022. Fernando Alonso will have to accept the arrival of a new boss to direct a ship that is not very settled after seeing how Brivio has asked leave after not being comfortable in the structure.
Fernando Alonso will have a lot of weight in the future decision of the new Alpine boss after having earned the respect of everyone so far this season. With six races remaining, the Asturian was the team driver with the most points, the best results on the grid, and the one who facilitated the team’s only victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix leaving on a tray the triumph to Esteban Ocon.
The two-time world champion has had during his career as bosses legends of the caliber of Flavio Briatore, Ron Dennis or Stefano Domenicali, current CEO of Formula 1. Fernando Alonso knows that you cannot win races from the wall, but you can lose many as Ferrari taught him in the 2010 World Cup.
The Asturian has the great illusion of competing in 2022 for what would be his third World Cup. Fernando Alonso has received a blow to know the intentions of a Brivio who has not even been replaced in Suzuki to leave the door open for a return that seems like a matter of week. Alpine must find someone to keep the bar high.
