Ferrari sporting director Laurent Mekies will change Franz Tost as boss of the AlphaTauri Formulation One workforce after the 2023 season.

Mekies will take over as workforce principal on a date but to be decided, with long-serving boss Tost transferring right into a consultancy function.

AlphaTauri, Purple Bull’s second F1 workforce, will even rent former FIA govt Peter Bayer as CEO later this yr.

Mekies will oversee the day-to-day operation of the workforce, with AlphaTauri saying CEO Bayer shall be in a “strategically targeted function”.

Tost has been a key pillar of the Italy-based workforce, which beforehand raced underneath the title Toro Rosso (Italian for Purple Bull), since its arrival on the grid in 2005.

He joined as workforce principal and was tasked with guiding the early careers of Purple Bull junior drivers, together with Sebastian Vettel, Max Verstappen, Daniel Ricciardo, Pierre Gasly and Carlos Sainz.

Tost additionally oversaw the workforce’s two F1 race wins, which each got here at Monza, by way of Vettel in 2008 and Gasly in 2020.

“To begin with, I want to thank Dietrich Mateschitz, who gave me the unbelievable alternative to be Workforce Principal of Scuderia Toro Rosso and Scuderia AlphaTauri for the previous 18 years,” Tost mentioned in a workforce information launch.

“It has been a real privilege to steer the Workforce for such a protracted interval and an awesome pleasure to work with so many motivated and expert individuals, who share my ardour for Formulation One.”

Mekies labored beforehand on the workforce underneath Tost, first as a race engineer, earlier than transferring up into roles together with chief engineer and head of auto efficiency.

In 2014, Mekies left Toro Rosso to turn out to be security director and deputy race director for racing’s governing physique, the FIA, earlier than becoming a member of Ferrari in 2018.