Sauber managing director Alessandro Alunni Bravi has been appointed as group consultant for the Alfa Romeo Method One group — a task just like a standard group principal.

Former CEO and group principal Fred Vasseur left Alfa Romeo on the finish of final 12 months to hitch Ferrari, with McLaren group principal Andreas Seidl becoming a member of the group as Sauber Group CEO.

Alunni Bravi will work beneath Seidl within the new construction and alongside the heads of the technical and operational departments of the group.

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The group, which is run by the Sauber Group, is getting into a interval of transition as its Alfa Romeo naming deal involves an finish on the finish of this season and German automotive producer Audi takes over forward of its official F1 entry in 2026.

Alunni Bravi, who’s Seidl’s first appointment since becoming a member of as CEO, will act because the group’s official consultant at race weekends and away from the observe. He has been on the group at board stage since 2017 and was named managing director of Sauber final March.

“I wish to thank Andreas and our shareholders for his or her belief, and I wish to reiterate my dedication to giving my finest to stay as much as their expectations and signify the group in the absolute best approach,” Alunni Bravi mentioned. “It’s a enormous privilege to maintain working with a gaggle of unimaginable individuals who, over a few years, have helped me combine inside the Sauber Group: what they gave me on this time will allow me to fulfil this process and signify the group in accordance with our shared imaginative and prescient and our targets.

“I’m absolutely acutely aware of the work we’ve forward of us and of the challenges that face us: I method this process with humility, figuring out I’m a part of a robust group that can get the job achieved, and with the idea we’ve all the things we’d like for a profitable future.”

Seidl added: “I’m delighted to verify the appointment of Alessandro Alunni Bravi to the position of group consultant, along with his current duties of managing director of the Group. His huge expertise in motorsport has geared up him with all of the instruments he must succeed, and his intimate information of the group, of which he has been half for greater than 5 years, will guarantee stability and continuity in our development.

“Alessandro representing the group throughout the Method One championship will permit me to give attention to rising the Group and getting ready for the challenges and alternatives that await us. I thank Alessandro for his perception in our imaginative and prescient and I welcome him to this extra place: I’m satisfied that is one other precious addition to what’s with none doubt a really robust group, from the drivers to the administration group, to every considered one of our staff, able to constructing on final 12 months’s success and making a vivid future for Sauber.”