Thursday, May 8, 2025

Wild, wild F1 story developing

The Alpine Formula One team is partly owned by Renault and based in England and France. It's really struggled for the last few years (often in comical ways). Some very famous Americans invested in 2023.  

A few days ago, after only six races, they announced that their rookie driver was being replaced by a former F1 driver who had previously performed in a pretty lackluster way. Then their "team principal" (think starship captain) suddenly resigned. Commentators initially assumed he did so due to a dispute about replacing the rookie, 

But no, it seems much, much more scandalous than that.