Flavio Briatore takes on Alpine F1 team principal duties after Oliver Oakes exit

Briatore to return 17 years after Crashgate scandalDriver Doohan expected to be replaced by ColapintoThe Alpine team principal, Oliver Oakes, has resigned from the team with Flavio Briatore, the Italian who was once given a lifetime ban from Formula One, set to step up to assume team principal duties.Oakes was appointed only nine months ago and the 37-year-old’s resignation, which a statement from Alpine read they had accepted with “immediate effect”, comes with the team expect