After 14 years out of Formula One, Italian entrepreneur Flavio Briatore (right) is back on the track for the third time with Alpine as team principal. — AP
BEFORE his return to Formula One in June of last year as an executive adviser to Alpine, Flavio Briatore made a vow to Luca de Meo, the chief executive of the Renault Group.
“I promised Luca that in two, three years, the team would be on the podium, or very close to the podium,” Briatore said in an interview in May. “That was only nine months ago.”
