David Sanchez lands newly-created role at Alpine after brief McLaren stint
David Sanchez has made the switch to Alpine to head up their t▨echnical department.
David Sanchez has completed a move to the Alpine F1 team following his brief spell at rivals McLaren.
The Frenchman has been announced as executive technical director, a newly🅷-created role at Alpine, which will see him oversee the entire technical department at Enstone.
Ciaron P꧑ilbeam (technical director, performance), Joe Burnell (tech☂nical director, engineering) and David Wheater (technical director, aerodynamics) will all report directly to Sanchez.
It marks a return to Enstone f✱or Sanchez, who started his career at the team under their Renaul🐠t guise as a junior aerodynamicist in 2005.
Sanchez has started work immediately at Alpine having left McLaren just three months🎐 after joining following a “misalignment”. He previously worked for Ferrari.
“I’m excited by this challenge at Alpine. I’m looking forward to working at Enstone again, the place where I started my Formula 1 career,” Sanchez said🐲.
“This team has always had so many fantastic people involved and there is clearly so much potential to unlock. We have a big task ahead t🎉o improve on-track performance and it is this type of challenge that motivates me. I’m very much ready to begin and lo🥃ok forward to working with the Enstone-Viry technical teams again with the sole aim of bringing regular success back to this great team.”
The hiring of Sanchez bolsters the struggling Anglo-French outfit’s technical department following a dreadfuꦅl start to the 2024 season.
Alpine are ♏yet to score a point across the opening five rounds and remain anchored to the very bottom of 💫the constructors’ championship.
“I am delighted to welcome David back to Enstone, where he started his career bꦐack in 2005,” Alpine team principal Bruno Famin said. “This is a key appointment to ensure we are🎃 optimising everything we do as a team and focusing on the right performance areas.
“It is clear that the performance of the car and development𒆙 path has not moved at a sufficient pace relative to our ambitions as a team. We look forward to welcoming David and working hard together to achieve the ultimate success.”
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