The technical director and aerodynamic chief of Alpine have “resigned” after the team’s poor performance in the Formula One season-opening 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix where Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly qualified on the back row of the grid and went on to finish 17th and 18th respectively, in the race.
Technical director Matt Harman and head of aerodynamics Dirk de Beer have resigned from their roles.
Ciaron Pilbeam has been promoted from head of race engineering to technical director responsible for performance while engineering will be led by Joe Burnell and aerodynamics by David Wheater.
Alpine – powered by Renault – finished fourth in the constructor’s championship in 2022, then fell to sixth in 2023.