If in the middle of the season there are usually signings of pilots in the teams of Formula 1 Looking ahead to the next season, this year with the end of it the teams have made a move as far as team leaders are concerned. And it is that until four teams have announced changes in just over 24 hours.
The first to move was williamswho announced on Monday the departure of Jost Capito as team leader of the British team. At the moment he has not been named a replacement. On the morning of this Tuesday, alfa romeo announced that Frederic Vasseur stopped being his team leader so that half an hour later, Ferrari announced the signing of the French who replaces Mattia Binotto.
Later, McLaren made official that Andrea Stella was the new team leader of the British team, replacing Andreas Seidl that has ended in alfa romeo as one of the people who will lead the project transition to Audi.
Before this domino of movements, Alpine posted a tweet in which he seems to stick out his chest if he hasn’t changed his team leader. “Looking at the mobile and realizing that you are the F1’s fifth-longest-serving team principal after just nine months in charge“says the message, with an image of otmar szafnauer.
Checking your phone and realizing you are the fifth longest tenured Team Principal in F1 after only 9 months in charge
#alpine pic.twitter.com/bzDKBqoQkj
— BWT Alpine F1 Team (@AlpineF1Team) December 13, 2022
The Romanian joined the French team last year and will continue in 2023. In this way, he becomes the fifth longest-lived team leader, after Toto Wolff ( Mercedes), Christian Horner (Red Bull), Franz Tost (AlphaTuari) and Guenther Steiner (Haas). Another one that arrived in the same season as szafnauer it was Mike Krack of Aston Martin.