As the French racing team announced on Thursday, Otmar Szafnauer will take over the post of team boss in the season beginning on March 20th. The American Szafnauer (57) born in Romania (57) had cleared his chair at Aston Martin at the beginning of January, his change to the team of ex-world champion Fernando Alonso (Spain) and the French Esteban Ocon was considered a formality. In addition, the Frenchman Bruno Famin at Alpine takes responsibility for the engine department. Last season, Alpine Davide Brivio acted as a race director and Marcin Budkowski as an executive director. While Budkowski leaves the team, Brivio takes over another task at Alpine.