He may be the youngest team principal in Formula 1, but Alpine’s Oliver Oakes, 37, is by no means lacking in experience of running a racing team – he’s done that since before he even hung up his helmet as a driver. And while his new employer continues to sack one team principal after another (usually around the time of the Belgian Grand Prix), there are reasons to believe that Oakes may actually be the right man for the job.
He’s certainly ambitious enough: F1 was his one and only goal during his own racing career, and then he also made an attempt to climb to the top of the motorsport ladder with his Hitech GP team. And while neither of those efforts proved successful – Oakes’s racing career stalled once he reached GP3, and Hitech’s F1 bid was rejected by the FIA – he nonetheless made it to F1.
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