Overview

• For the first time in 16 years, Briatore represented Alpine at an FIA team principals’ press conference ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix.
• The 74-year-old took on team principal duties ten months after joining as executive advisor, following Oliver Oakes’s resignation.
• He denounced the two-stop strategy for Monaco as “a very bad idea” and clashed with host Tom Clarkson over his candor.
• Briatore urged that driver salaries be included under F1’s budget cap, challenging the sport’s current financial rules.
• Christian Horner praised his performance for injecting “refreshing” entertainment into what had become routine press sessions.