Ex-Sauber managing director and crew consultant, Alessandro Alunni Bravi, has joined McLaren within the crew’s newly created function of chief enterprise affairs officer.
Alunni Bravi will report on to McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown and as a part of his new remit will head up McLaren’s driver growth programme.
He’ll begin his new job on 1 February 2025.
In a crew assertion launched on Thursday, McLaren introduced that Alunni Bravi’s function may also together with authorized affairs, driver contract administration and what it calls “rights holders/governing physique administration”.
“McLaren is a crew I’ve been an enormous fan of my entire life, and it due to this fact sparks particular feelings personally to have the chance to now work with such a tremendous group of individuals,” stated Alunni Bravi, who labored at Sauber from 2017 till the beginning of this 12 months.
“I’m so grateful to be becoming a member of such an excellent organisation with the values and tradition which are so clear to see from the skin.
“I wish to reward the belief and confidence that Zak and the board have put in me by giving my full dedication and energy to assist contribute to the continued success, as I consider teamwork is essential to all the pieces.
Alessandro Alunni Bravi, Staff Consultant, Stake F1 Staff KICK Sauber
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“I’m so blissful to be becoming a member of a crew that I actually consider units the benchmark in F1 each on and off the observe, and I can’t wait to get began in the beginning of February.”
Brown added: “I’m delighted to have Alessandro becoming a member of us together with his in depth experience and motorsport background.
“Alongside managing our authorized and driver growth capabilities, he may also present invaluable help on all skilled driver enterprise administration issues, racing governance actions throughout our numerous rights holders and governing physique relationships and broad enterprise help to all our racing collection as wanted.
“We stay up for welcoming him to the McLaren Racing household in February.”
McLaren has additionally introduced a number of different modifications to its administration construction.
With Alunni Bravi heading up its younger driver programme, Stephanie Carlin has been transferred to what McLaren’s assertion referred to as “further tasks inside Formulation 1, persevering with to report into [team principal] Andrea Stella”.
Carlin was beforehand McLaren’s crew enterprise operations director.
After two years within the function, McLaren Racing’s chief communications officer, Steve Atkins, is stepping down for private causes on the finish of February.
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