Briatore: We need not famous engineers, but good ones.

      After last year's voluntary resignation of Oliver Oakes, Flavio Briatore became the de facto head of Alpine F1, but the operational management of the team is handled by managing director Steve Nielsen, whose experience in Formula 1 spans four decades.

      The position of technical director is held by David Sanchez, who previously worked with Ferrari and McLaren, and Jason Somerville, who moved from the FIA to the Enstone team, became his deputy. The responsibilities of the racing director are carried out by Dave Greenwood, who was Kimi Raikkonen's race engineer during the Finn's time at Ferrari.

      This year, Alpine is using customer power units from Mercedes for the first time in its history, which has allowed the team to rise to 6th place in the Constructors' Championship, and it is possible that in the second half of the season, they could overtake the Racing Bulls.

      Progress is evident, especially compared to the disastrous last season, and according to Briatore, the process of strengthening the engineering department continues, but Alpine will not invite technical specialists with high-profile names.

      "We are working on strengthening the technical side, as we have the engine, and now we need to improve the quality of our technologies," Briatore is quoted by RacingNews365. "When I came to Alpine, the situation was quite poor; many specialists had left the team, there were too many personnel changes, and the management composition changed every year. There was no stability at all.

      We needed to gradually build a strong technical team, regain stability, and strive to improve the quality of work. We need to improve in everything—there is no single area where we need to achieve improvements. All of this is necessary if we want to win.

      We have not yet reached that level, but we must continue to work, primarily focusing on reorganizing the foundations of the team, which takes time. We need experienced specialists; we are looking for them, but it is not such a simple task.

      We need not famous engineers, but simply good specialists, as an impressive track record is not always a good thing. Formula 1 can create monsters, and only after some time will it become clear whether such a monster can achieve something or not.

      Everyone knows that Aston Martin has the best specialists in the world; Lawrence Stroll has done an incredible job building a new base in Silverstone and all that, but that doesn't mean the team will achieve results. Therefore, we will never invite such a monster.

      In due time, our team produced such celebrities as Ross Brawn, Bob Bell, Pat Symonds, and James Allison. We have found our path and are now looking for not celebrities—first and foremost, the team of technical specialists needs to be cohesive and achieve results.

      This will take time, but not ten years, rather two or three years. It was the same when I first came to Benetton (in 1988), and we did the same at Renault (in the 2000s).

      When I came to Alpine, there were 1,300 people working in the team, and now there are about 900 because there were 400 people who had no relation to us. In general, when we talk about changing the structure of the team, it is a certain process that initially goes through a lot of pain, but now we see the goal and are moving towards it."