After 18 years at the helm of Toro Rosso and AlphaTauri, Franz Tost will leave the team at the end of the 2023 F1 season. But he says his squad's race victories are not the highlight of his tenure as team principal. Interview:
"That's good. And to see now how Yuki [Tsunoda] is developing, and then [Nyck] de Vries will also get there. So, this is a good feeling for the team.""I don't like the word 'proud'," he says."I have no reason to be proud about anything. It's the team. And the team did a really good job, I must say, also with educating the young drivers, because it's much more complicated and a much higher workload than people think.
However, logic suggested that it could only be in the role of team principal, which would mean that Tost would be out. However, it was also time for change at AlphaTauri as the main company reorganises in the post-Mateschitz era, and its second F1 team has to justify its existence. Horner certainly backs the new twin-pronged leadership arrangement, which he sees as potentially improving the synergies between the two teams.
"I can tell you now, I'm not the guy to look behind the shoulders or what Peter and Laurent will do," he says. AlphaTauri is following a recent trend that has seen a highly-qualified engineer in the team principal role, often working in tandem with a CEO who has more of a business and political overview of the organisation. In other words, it's no longer a job for one clear leader.
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