Ex-Sauber managing director and workforce consultant Alessandro Alunni Bravi has joined McLaren within the workforce’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 improvement programme.
He’ll begin his new job on 1 February 2025.
In a workforce assertion launched on Thursday, McLaren introduced that Alunni Bravi’s function may also embody authorized affairs, driver contract administration and what it calls “rights holders/governing physique administration”.
“McLaren is a workforce I’ve been an enormous fan of my entire life, and it subsequently 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 yr.
“I am so grateful to be becoming a member of such a fantastic organisation with the values and tradition which might be so clear to see from the skin.
“I need 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 every little thing.
“I’m so glad to be becoming a member of a workforce that I actually consider units the benchmark in F1 each on and off the monitor, and I can not wait to get began in the beginning of February.”
Alessandro Alunni Bravi, Workforce Consultant, KICK Sauber
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Brown added: “I am delighted to have Alessandro becoming a member of us together with his intensive experience and motorsport background.
“Alongside managing our authorized and driver improvement 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 look ahead to 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 System 1, persevering with to report into [team principal] Andrea Stella”.
Carlin was beforehand McLaren’s workforce 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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