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Laurent Rossi: ‘climbing the mountain’ with Alpine

Laurent Rossi: ‘climbing the mountain’ with Alpine

F1 Beyond The Grid vor 3 Jahren

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Win races. Catch F1’s ‘big three’ teams. Turn ‘beasts’ into team
players. Laurent Rossi’s to-do list is intimidating. The Alpine
CEO runs the French road car company and the F1 operation, which
is split between France and the UK. He grew up in a racing
heartland. He studied at leading universities and worked at
top-tier companies. All that experience helped him handle
clashing teammates Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso in 2022.
Alpine’s 2023 line-up, Ocon and Pierre Gasly, have been rivals
since they were 6 years old. Now, Rossi needs them to work
together to help the team ‘climb the mountain’, and close the gap
to Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull. Laurent tells Tom Clarkson how
he and Team Principal Otmar Szafnauer plan to make Alpine
winners. He also explains what the team learned from the 2022
departure of junior driver Oscar Piastri, who now races with
McLaren.

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