Alpine pronounces the appointment of Bruno Famin as VP of Alpine Motorsports and member of the Alpine Management Committee, reporting on to Laurent Rossi, Alpine CEO. Bruno Famin will lead Alpine’s actions throughout all motorsport disciplines on this place.
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This new group will additional simplify and reinforce Alpine’s governance beneath Laurent Rossi’s management, by way of the creation of purposeful hubs, following the nominations this yr of Philippe Krief as VP of Engineering and Product Performance and Antonino Labate as VP of Sales, Marketing & Customer Experience.
With this announcement, Alpine confirms its ambition to ascertain itself in the long run as a reference in high racing classes. Bruno Famin will handle all groups starting from Formula 1 to Endurance, to buyer racing and competitors such as Rallye-Raid, with Alpine offering technical assist to Dacia on its Dakar mission. Bruno Famin may even lead the Alpine Academy, with the goal of detecting and growing drivers, thus serving as a feeder to all Alpine’s motorsports endeavours. Last however not least, Bruno Famin will proceed to serve as MD of Alpine Racing’s manufacturing facility in Viry-Châtillon (France), supplying high-performance powertrains to all these classes.
All present leaders of Alpine motorsport actions will thus report back to Bruno Famin.
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With this appointment, Bruno Famin will probably be in a place to leverage his in depth expertise in motorsports, constructed on his distinctive observe report of victories, together with a number of titles in Le Mans and Dakar. He may even contribute his acknowledged engineering know-how, which helped re-establish Alpine’s F1 PU as a credible reference within the paddock, as properly as his in depth expertise in Motorsports rules, having lengthy served as a well-respected FIA government.
Bruno Famin Biography:
Bruno joined BWT Alpine F1 Team previous to the beginning of the 2022 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season. He is answerable for the event of the Power Unit, working intently with Enstone to optimise its efficiency throughout the chassis package deal.
The Frenchman started his time in motorsport with Peugeot in 1989, working with Peugeot Talbot Sport on engines and gearboxes. He personally labored on a number of automobile tasks, such as the 905 Spider and the 106 GRA.
In 2005, Bruno was made Technical Director of Peugeot Sport, and by 2012, he took over as Director of the corporate. He performed a seminal function within the Le Mans, profitable 908 tasks and the record-breaking Pikes Peak victory in 2013 at the palms of Sebastien Loeb. Bruno was additionally at the helm of three Dakar Rally victories between 2016 and 2018, as properly as the 2015 World Rallycross Championship win.
By 2019, Bruno turned Director of Operations for the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA). His major function was to handle the mixing of all the Federation’s sporting and supporting capabilities.
