Laurent Rossi: ‘climbing the mountain’ with Alpine

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🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Win races. Catch F1’s ‘big three’ teams. Turn ‘beasts’ into team players. Laurent Rossi’s to-do list is intimidating. The Alpine CEO runs the French road car company and the F1 operation, which is split between France and the UK. He grew up in a racing heartland. He studied at leading universities and worked at top-tier companies. All that experience helped him handle clashing teammates Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso in 2022. Alpine’s 2023 line-up, Ocon and Pierre Gasly, have been rivals since they were 6 years old. Now, Rossi needs them to work together to help the team ‘climb the mountain’, and close the gap to Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull. Laurent tells Tom Clarkson how he and Team Principal Otmar Szafnauer plan to make Alpine winners. He also explains what the team learned from the 2022 departure of junior driver Oscar Piastri, who now races with McLaren.

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0:00.0	I'm Jimmy Femme Reuer, writer, broadcaster and restaurant critic.
0:06.1	In each episode of my brand new podcast, We're's Home Really, I'll be getting under
0:10.5	the skin of a well-known name and I'll ask them to share a person, a place, a phrase
0:16.8	and a plate to help us understand We're's Home Really, for them.
0:22.6	From Podomo and Listen, you can find We're's Home Really with me, Jimmy Femme Reuer, wherever
0:27.8	you get your podcasts.
0:36.7	F1 is a team sport, but at the centre of every squad are two fierce opponents. The drivers.
0:44.6	What makes them champions is their instinctive desire to fight. When the visors down, they
0:51.2	are just turning into beasts, so you want to keep that, you don't want to curb that.
0:55.5	Unleashing those beasts, but making sure they don't eat each other, is one of the many
0:59.9	things on Loro Rossi's to-do list. The Alpine CEO helped keep the peace between Esteban
1:06.5	Ocon and Fernando Alonso when they were teammates.
1:10.0	I told them, I said, I'll let you race as long as you behave like adults. I'll treat you
1:15.8	like adults. If one of you is in the ditch and we don't finish and have as many points
1:20.4	as we could have because the car is the potential, then that means you behave like kids. I'll
1:25.0	treat you like kids. And I will basically ground one of you or the both of you and I will
1:29.4	do it and it can sue my back. You will. I will do it.
1:37.0	Now it's Ocon and Pierre Gasly in the blue and pink cars, childhood rivals of the past.
1:43.3	Wins with Alpine could be in their future and Rossi needs them to join forces and fire
1:48.7	up the team.
1:50.0	Those two basically could reckon all a relationship, not a friendship necessarily, but a relationship,
1:57.0	but that's nice.
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