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The partnership between Red Bull and AlphaTauri is a hot topic in F1 with one simple reason why some team bosses are concerned about the alliance.
In the opening rounds of the 2023 season, AlphaTauri had a poor start, with driver Nyck de Vries struggling and the AT04 car being slow. Team Principal Franz Tost publicly expressed his lack of trust in his engineering team after missing targets. Tost later stepped down and was replaced by Laurent Mekies as Team Principal and Peter Bayer as CEO. Under the new leadership, AlphaTauri plans to have a closer alliance with the senior Red Bull team and take advantage of transferable components. This has caused concern among other team bosses, with McLaren’s Zak Brown calling for such cooperation to be prohibited. AlphaTauri’s performance improved towards the end of the season, earning them respectability, and they narrowly missed out on seventh place in the Constructors’ Championship. The team’s late-season momentum and improved form has caught the attention of rival team bosses, leading to dissatisfaction and concerns being voiced about the increased alliance between AlphaTauri and Red Bull.
