Ex-Sauber managing director and crew consultant Alessandro Alunni Bravi has joined McLaren within the crew’s newly created position 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 growth programme.
He’ll begin his new job on 1 February 2025.
In a crew assertion launched on Thursday, McLaren introduced that Alunni Bravi’s position will even embrace authorized affairs, driver contract administration and what it calls “rights holders/governing physique administration”.
“McLaren is a crew I’ve been an enormous fan of my complete life, and it subsequently sparks particular feelings personally to have the chance to now work with such an incredible group of individuals,” mentioned Alunni Bravi, who labored at Sauber from 2017 till the beginning of this 12 months.
“I am so grateful to be becoming a member of such an incredible organisation with the values and tradition which can be so clear to see from the skin.
“I wish 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 imagine teamwork is essential to all the things.
“I’m so glad to be becoming a member of a crew that I actually imagine units the benchmark in F1 each on and off the observe, and I am unable to wait to get began at the start of February.”
Alessandro Alunni Bravi, Group Consultant, KICK Sauber
Picture by: Andy Hone / Motorsport Pictures
Brown added: “I am delighted to have Alessandro becoming a member of us along with his intensive experience and motorsport background.
“Alongside managing our authorized and driver growth capabilities, he will even present invaluable assist on all skilled driver enterprise administration issues, racing governance actions throughout our numerous rights holders and governing physique relationships and broad enterprise assist to all our racing sequence as wanted.
“We sit up for 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 known as “further tasks inside Components 1, persevering with to report into [team principal] Andrea Stella”.
Carlin was beforehand McLaren’s crew enterprise operations director.
After two years within the position, McLaren Racing’s chief communications officer, Steve Atkins, is stepping down for private causes on the finish of February.
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