F1’s newest team boss Oliver Oakes is quickly finding out that change does not happen quickly in grand prix racing
Alpine Formula 1 team principal Oliver Oakes has admitted that he has to learn to be patient when it comes to making the changes he wants at the squad. Having stepped up after the summer break to run the Enstone operation as it tries to plot its way back to the front of the grid, Oakes has quickly come to understand that success is not going to come overnight.
But while not an easy circumstance, Oakes says he has seen enough within Enstone to feel that the core qualities are there to make the right steps. 'I'd hope now at Enstone, people, they're smart enough to know where we started, what we have done, and they're on that journey that we need to bring some performance between now and the end of the year,' he said. 'But also, the true barometer of that is going to be how we start next year really.
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