Alpine, David Sanchez hypothesis as the head of the technical department – News

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Sanchez in Alpine?

Alpine may once again change its command line. The French team could be David’s new home Sánchez, former head of Ferrari’s aerodynamics department and technical director of Concept Car and Performance McLaren. Sources within the team contacted by the Japanese talked about this possibility like-jp.

For the transalpine engineer, Alpine will be the third team in more than a year. A small record due to the sudden departure of Ferrari and then McLaren, the latter leaving a few months after the end of garden. Sanchez wants that freedom which – according to him – would not be recognized either in Maranello or Woking.

At Alpine he would definitely find himself in a team in trouble and ineffective at the level of organization and management. For this reason, it would be a challenge that Sanchez could accept: if he accepted, the Frenchman would find himself facing a new “triad” of special technical directors, consisting of Joe Burnell, David Wheater and Ciaron Pilbeam. It would be the same type of organization he ran when he was at McLaren. So it is likely that Sanchez will oversee the work of the three, insert himself between them and team principal Bruno Famin and become the team’s Chief Technical Officer, accompanying it towards the 2026 revolution.