Martin Brundle says Mattia Binotto F1 return with Alpine is ‘not out of the question’
Alpine sacked team principal Otmar Szafnauer and long-serving sporting dire🌌ctor Alan Permane in a shock announcement that rocked the F1 paddock at the Belgian Grand Prix.&nb🦄sp;
The rumour 🐭mill has gone into overdrive in the days following the confirmation of their exits amid suggestions that former Ferrari boss Binotto could replace Szafnauer.
Binotto has been out of a job since being dismissed by the Italian outfit over the winter, though he was recently spotted in the F1 paddock 🌌at the British Grand Prix.
And Sky F1 commentator B✱rundle reckons there could be something to the rumours.
"I've heard the same🦩 rumour," Brundle said during Sky’s coverage in Belgi🔜um.
"This is a funny old place as you know, you can start a rumour just for fun and see how qꩵuickly it comes back to y꧋ou as fact. But it's not out of the question.
"Binotto has got a🃏 lot of experience, obviously in the Ferrari 🀅system, and knows about running a Formula 1 team.
"Obviously, it didn't work out fo𓆉r him at Ferrari otherwise he'd still be there. But I wouldn't be surprised if that was announced, no.”
Interim Alpine boss 💜Bruno Famin remained tight-lipped when he♔ was asked if Binotto is on the French team’s shortlist.
“We’re not at that stage,” Famin insisted.
“I think I'm going to, with all my direct reports, assess what is the situation, think about what are the priorities in Enstone, to consolidate the things and we will define if we need a new structure 🍬or not and when that will be done, we will see.”
Famin added: “I will 🀅take the necessary time to do this assessment and we will decide later on.”♑
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