7 Jan 2021
Having won the MotoGP title, Suzuki confirms it is losing team manager Davide Brivio ahead of its championship defence in 2021
Davide Brivio has confirmed he is exiting both the Suzuki Ecstar team and MotoGP as a whole ahead of a widely anticipated move to take on a new role in F1.
After leading Suzuki to its first MotoGP title since 2000, multiple publications had reported that team manager Davide Brivio is to leave the project for a senior role at Renault s rebranded Alpine F1 team.
Though his whereabouts remains unconfirmed, Brivio s Suzuki exit is now assured, the Italian revealing he made the difficult personal decision because it represents a brand new challenge for him professionally.
MotoGP icon Davide Brivio is departing Suzuki to join Fernando Alonso’s Alpine Formula 1 team.
The man who took Suzuki to the top of the world after years in the doldrums has called it mission accomplished on two wheels, for now, as he begins his adventure with four wheels.
Although no confirmation has been forthcoming as yet from Renault F1 Team, which morphs into Alpine F1 Team this year with Alonso leading the charge alongside Esteban Ocon.
Brivio released the following statement: “A new professional challenge and opportunity suddenly came to me and in the end I decided to take it. It has been a difficult decision. The hardest part will be to leave this fabulous group of people, whom I started this project with when Suzuki rejoined the Championship.
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