Alpine's Bruno Famin says getting the team's chassis and engine factories working together more effectively is key to its Formula 1 success.
Famin took over as an interim team principal at the end of July after the departure of Otmar Szafnauer and long-time sporting manager Alan Permane.must improve to speed up its trajectory to the front of the F1 grid after Renault's management became impatient with outgoing Szafnauer's plans.
Alpine's two-country split between its British chassis department in Enstone and its engine division in France's Viry-Chatillon has often been pointed to as a key challenge to overcome in the bid to become a top team. Speaking in Japan, Famin affirmed that improving communication and cooperation between the two factories is a priority to address.
"I'm still assessing both factories to see how to extract more performance and I think one of the key things is to try and get all the people working together," Famin said when asked by Motorsport.com what the result of his fact-finding mission over the summer has been."We have a lot of potential, but the difficulty is to put everybody together, everything together to create more performance, which is what I'm assessing now.
Famin felt the cultural changes he had made have already benefited the trackside operations of the team, which has managed to wring a string of encouraging results out of the cars run by
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