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Oliver Oakes, lead actor in an unknown screenplay at Alpine
Oliver Oakes and George Russell with Hitech. © Gasperotti / XPB Images
The announcement of the arrival of Oliver Oakes in the main team caste of Formula 1 must have given Christian Horner a strange feeling. The boss of Red Bull Racing undoubtedly saw himself twenty years ago, when he arrived in 2005 in the big leagues with his early thirties and his past as team boss in promotion formulas. Two particularities that he shares with the new strong man ofAlpine F1 Team. When Horner cut his teeth at Arden, a team he founded in 1997, Oakes taught him the trade at Hitech Grand Prix, a structure he took over in 2015 and which allowed him to make himself known in industry.
If the child from Norwich will begin his career as a team principal at Zandvoort (Dutch Grand Prix, August 23-25), he could also very well have, in other circumstances and if life had smiled on him a little earlier, finding himself on the other side of the barrier, on the pilots' bench, leading an honorable career. Oliver has in fact always been exposed to motorsport, do
Jeremy Satis
Deputy Digital Editor & F1 Reporter
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dedeHJ37
10/08/2024 at 01:35 a.m.
a gravedigger who prepares the ground for Andretti who seems to have no other solution than to buy an already existing team, poor France, everything is gone, I am 74 years old and have had some beautiful, resplendent years for French motorsport but it smells bad!!! Di Meo and Briatore found the missing link in their turpitudes