“Briatore will focus primarily on the team’s high-level activities, especially on searching for top talent and analyzing the driver market , on questioning the existing project after evaluating the current structure, and on advising on certain strategic issues within the framework of sports,” Alpine said in a statement.

Briatore was team leader in the 1990s and 2000s. With him, Michael Schumacher won the first two titles of his career (1994 and 1995). The Italian was also head of Renault at the time of Fernando Alonso’s titles (2005 and 2006).

The executive returns to the category after 15 years away. Briatore was one of those involved in “Singapore Gate”. In 2008, the Italian was accused of having orchestrated a plan for Nelson Piquet Jr. to cause an accident on purpose to benefit his teammate, Fernando Alonso.

The executive was fired by Renault and banned by the International Automobile Federation (FIA). The punishment imposed by the FIA ​​was reversed in 2010.

The result directly influenced the title fight that season . Felipe Massa, then a Ferrari driver, lost the title to McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton by just one point in the standings.