Alpine’s new team principal will face his f🎉irst Formula 1 race in the job in the next few weeks when racing resumes at the D☂utch Grand Prix.

The 36-y🦂ear-old former racer founded Hitech Grand Prix in 2015, which has been competing on the F1 junior series ladder.

Following Bruno Famin’s decision to step down from the role as Alpine team principal, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oakes was appointed as his r𓃲eplacement and will begin properly after the summer break.

The day after the Oakes announcement, it was confirmed that Red Bull sporting director Jonathan Wheatley 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:would step down from his role at t✱he reigning world champion squad at the end of 2024 to become team principal 🌊at Audi.

Wheatley will work directly under Mattia 𒉰Binotto, the ex-Ferrari F1 team boss who has been installed as chief operating officer and chief technical officer at Audi.

Where Binotto wilꦰl likely take responsibility in the political side of F1, allowing Wheatley to focus on his job🅘 as team principal, Oakes faces this task on his own.

According to Sky Sports F1’s Ted Kravitz, it’s unthinkable to see a situation where Alpine would have Flavio Briatore - who now holds the role of Renault CEO Luca de Meo’s executive advisor - be iꦯnvolved in team principal meetings in the same way Binotto would be for Audi.

“He’s very much in t༒hat club ꦺof ambitious, young drivers-turned-team bosses,” Kravitz said of Oakes on Sky Sports F1’s most recent podcast.

“As a team boss he’ll know what m🀅akes drivers tick, because he ✃was one.

“He knows how teams are run and in a sense I think he’ll be ok on the political side as well, because what Oakes doesn’t have is somebody dire🧔ctly above him who will be doing all of the political stuff.

“So, Wheatley is team principal, but he has chief executive officer Mattia Binotto directly above him in the Sauber/Aud🎐i structure who will be able to 🌼do all of the political stuff.

“Oakes is going to have to do all of the politics stuff himself, unless he wants Fl🍎avio to do it.

“Being in an F1 Commission meeting or being in the team principals’ [meeting]… Flavio’s not going to turn up to the team principals’ meeting. 
“He’s🅘 an executive advisor to Renault’s boss. That’s not a position for him to𝐆 turn up at a team principals’ meeting.

“Now, if you’re at Sauber/Audi, ok the te🌠am principal is Jonatha🐓n Wheatley, but the boss of the operation who is taking a higher-level view is Mattia Binotto.

“Ma🉐ttia Binotto is more use to being at Stefano Domenicali’s team pꦫrincipals’ coffee mornings.

“So, yo🐼u’d imagine Binotto will get Wheatley to run the Formula 1 team but he’ll be involved at that higher Audi level in representing at that kind of representative level.

“But Oakes is going to have to do that politics thing and quite quickly, whereas we’ll have to wait and see whether Wheatley - who knows more about working in Formula 1, because he’s worked in Formula 1 for many more years than Oliver Oakes has… Wheatley will know more of that, but Wheatley doesn’t know as much about being a race team principal as Oak𝔍es does.”