On Friday, Alpine announced they will part ways with team principal Otmar S🦹zafnaue❀r and sporting director Alan Permane following this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix.

Alpine have also lost chief technical officer Pat Fry, who is joining F1 rivals Williams to🐷 head up the British outfit’s technical division. 

Alpine Motorsports v✅ice pre🎶sident Famin has been installed as interim team principal from the Dutch Grand Prix. 

The latest upheaval comes just over ൩a week after former Alpine chief executive officer Laurent Rossi was replaced as CEO.

Speaking in Friday’s FIA press conference in Belgium, 𒈔Famin admitted Renault’s F1 works team have failed to meet their targets. 

"We have ambition and we've decided to make some changes in order to go faster i💃n reaching the level of perfo👍rmance we are aiming for,” Famin said. 

Famin adde꧋d that the team, Szafnauer and Perm🍃ane “were not on the same line, on the timeline to recover the level, or reach the level, of performance we are aiming for.” 

The Frenchman stressed that the decision was “a🧸 mutual agreement, first”, but acknowledged the changes ultimately reflect "a decision of the top management”. 

"It's not something that was decided from one day to another,” he continued. “It’s not that I was appointed two weeks ago as vice president of motorsport that I starꩵted to work two weeks ago.” 

On Alpine’s succession pl💞an, Famin said: "I have just been appointed two weeks ago as a vice president of motorsport at Alpine, of course we have been discussing that topic with the top management for weeks.

"Now I will really assess with the whole team what is the real situation and what will 🤪be the plan. I will take the necessary time to do this assessment and we will decide later on.

"The season so far, the results do not match 💖our expectations, clearly. We were fourth last year. We know that the top three is very strong but we were aiming to keep that fourth place and to maybe fight a little bit more for the third.

"We are not where we wanted, and we will work🍒 hard with all the team, with the Enstone guys, with the Viry-Chatillon guys, to extract the best possible performance of our car.”

Famin, who repeatedly referred to the reshuffle as “pha꧒se two” of Alpine’s project, expressed confidence that the changes will not derail the team’s 100-race plan to join the fr💖ont. 

“It’s 😼not going backwards,” he said. “It’s moving forward. Of course its a lot of change but its an opportunity also to have a new foundation or to consolidate the foundation to go faster.”

He added: “We have a clear project, a clear objective. And it's not only the Formula 1 team that has the strategy, it's the full brand, and both are totally linkღed.

"I'm confident we'll make it work. I don't know what's happened before, as I said we are now launching phase♋ two of the Alpine project, phase one started in '21. 

“We improved a lot of things in Enstone and Viry [Renꩲault's engine base], we are moving the team forward and we will continue to do that.”