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Alpine principal 'massively motivated' to improve team
The Straits Times
|November 04, 2024
SAO PAULO - Oliver Oakes, the team principal of Formula One's Alpine, has big goals as he wants his strugglers to shrug off their problems and be at "the front" of the midfield next season.
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But the 36-year-old Englishman admits there is no "silver bullet" to remedy the team's issues. Alpine were in ninth in the constructors' standings heading into the weekend's Sao Paulo Grand Prix.
Their desperate campaign was epitomised by Esteban Ocon's ill-advised attempt to overtake teammate Pierre Gasly in the Monaco GP which resulted in damage to both cars.
Ocon, who recorded Alpine's sole Grand Prix success in Hungary in 2021, was criticised by the team and is leaving at the end of the season. He is to be replaced by rookie Jack Doohan, son of Australia's five-time motorcycling world champion Mick Doohan.
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