The workforce which completed final within the constructors’ championship final 12 months will go into the 2025 Components 1 season with new management.
Alessandro Alunni Bravi, the workforce’s managing director and consultant, will step down on the finish of the month.
Sauber, which competed as Alfa Romeo when Alunni Bravi took cost, sank to final within the championship final 12 months. Its drivers managed a single factors rating courtesy of Zhou Guanyu in Qatar.
Alunni Bravi has been with Sauber since 2017. He grew to become its managing director, focussing mainly on non-racing areas, in 2022. He took on the position of workforce consultant the next 12 months.
Throughout Alunni Bravi’s time the workforce raced underneath the identify Alfa Romeo between 2019 and 2023. Audi agreed a deal to purchase the workforce in 2022 and Sauber will race underneath the automobile producer’s branding from subsequent 12 months. Alunni Bravi mentioned his departure was an “emotional time” and the workforce “has a shiny future forward.”
Sauber’s chief working officer Mattia Binotto, who joined them final summer time, thanked Alunni Bravi for his time in command of the workforce.
“Having labored intently with him within the months since my arrival to Hinwil, I need to pay tribute to Alessandro, a real workforce participant who got here to embody the essence of Sauber all through the years,” mentioned Binotto.
“Alessandro performed a variety of roles throughout the workforce, steering it by tough and thrilling occasions alike. As he strikes on to a brand new enterprise, the entire firm want to thank him for all his power and contributions over time and need him the perfect for the longer term.”
The information means Sauber goes into the 2025 season with a brand new face in cost in addition to a whole change of driver line-up, Nico Hulkenberg having joined from Haas alongside newcomer Gabriel Bortoleto.
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