{"id":447341,"date":"2023-07-28T11:35:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T15:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=447341"},"modified":"2023-07-28T11:36:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T15:36:29","slug":"szafnauer-departs-as-alpines-team-boss","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/szafnauer-departs-as-alpines-team-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Szafnauer departs as Alpine&#8217;s team boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alpine F1 team have announced that they are parting ways with team boss Otmar Szafnauer after the Belgium Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Alpine Team Principal Otmar Szafnauer and Sporting Director Alan Permane to depart Alpine following the Belgian Grand Prix<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/idRxwoAK93\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/idRxwoAK93<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1684911955985727488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 58-year-old is not the only figure to depart the French team as sporting director Alan Permane is also sent packing amid major shake up inside Alpine, following a string of disappointing results.<\/p>\n<p>Alpine set themselves high standards going into this season, following a highly successful 2022, which saw them finish P4 in the Constructors. However, they have fallen behind the likes of Aston Martin and McLaren and are nowhere near the top three.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to split with Szafnauer and Permane comes just over a week after former Alpine chief executive officer Laurent Rossi was moved into a new role in special projects at Renault and replaced with a new CEO in Philippe Krief.<\/p>\n<p>One of the names that has been linked as a replacement is Ferrari&#8217;s ex-team boss Mattia Binotto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alpine F1 team have announced that they are parting ways with team boss Otmar Szafnauer after the Belgium Grand Prix. BREAKING: Alpine Team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":447342,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18140,20663],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[18141,20664],"acf":{"announce":"The American will leave after Belgium along with sporting director Alan Permane","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/447341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/447341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447341"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=447341"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=447341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}