Alpine’s new team principal will face his first Formula 1 race in the job in the next few weeks when racing resumes at the Dutch G🌄rand Prix.

The 36-year-old former racer founded Hitech G💜rand 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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oakes was appointed as his repl⛦acement and will begin properly after thꩵe summer break.

The day after the Oakes announcement, it was confirmed that Red Bull sporting director Jonathan Wheatley 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:would step down from his role at the🎃 reigning world champion squad at the end of 2024 to become team principal ꦅat Audi.

Wheatley will work directly under M𝓰attia Binotto, the ex-Ferrari F1 team boss who has been installed as chief oper♊ating officer and chief technical officer at Audi.

Where Binotto will likely take responsibility in the political side o🍎f 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 Briat🦋ore - who now holds the role of Renault CEO Luca de Meo’s executive advisor - be involꦗved in team principal meetings in the same way Binotto would be for Audi.

“He’s very much💮 in that club of ambit🍨ious, 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♊akཧes 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 sꦺide as well, because whaꦦt Oakes doesn’t have is somebody directly 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 hi🐻m in the Sauber/Audi structure who will be able to do all of the political stuff.

“Oakesꩲ is going to have to do all⛦ of the politics stuff himself, unless he wants Flavio 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 Re🐼nault’s boss. That’s not a position for him to turn up at a team principals’ ▨meeting.

“Now, if you’re at Sauber/Audi, ok the team principal is Jonathan Wheatley, but the boss of the operation who is ta🌺king a higher-level view is Mattia Binotto.

“Mattia Binotto i🌌s more use to being at Stefano🌸 Domenicali’s team principals’ coffee mornings.

“So, you’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 r𓆉epresentative level.

“But Oakes is going tꦉo 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 Oakes does.”