Bruno Famin | |
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Born | Bruno Famin 1962 |
Occupation(s) | Team principal Alpine F1 Team and vice president of Alpine Motorsport |
Bruno Famin is a French automotive engineer. He is the vice president of Alpine Motorsport since July 2023 and the current team principal of Alpine F1 Team, and will be until the end of August 2024.
He was technical director of Peugeot Sport before taking command of the latter in 2012. In 2019 he became director of operations for the FIA.
He obtained his engineering degree from the National School of Arts and Crafts. In 1986, he began his professional career in logistics and transport in West Africa. After continuing his studies at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs, joined Peugeot Talbot Sport in 1989, where he joined the design office of the customer racing department as a development engineer. In 1994, he left the competition remaining within Groupe PSA, and became a project manager, from where he left for Argentina before returning to France. [1] In 2005, he became technical director of Peugeot Sport. [2] In 2012, he was appointed director of Peugeot Sport, succeeding Olivier Quesnel. [3] [4] [5] [6]
In 2019, he left Peugeot Sport and joined the International Automobile Federation (FIA), where he became director of operations for the sports branch.
Bruno Famin became CEO in charge of engine development for the Alpine F1 Team in February 2022. [7]
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