London ¨C A year on from the summer shock of Fernando Alonso announcing his departure and Oscar Piastri ruling out replacing him, Renault-owned Alpine go into Formula One¡¯s August break in a state of upheaval again.
In the space of two weeks, an entire top tier has left the Enstone factory ¡ª chief executive Laurent Rossi, team principal Otmar Szafnauer, sporting director Alan Permane and chief technical officer Pat Fry.
On track they have slumped from fourth last season to a distant sixth and suffered more retirements than any team.
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