Another link between Formula 1’s past and present has been severed – for now. Alessandro Alunni Bravi might not be a household name for fans but the announcement that he is to leave Sauber puts even more distance between F1’s corporate present and its past as Bernie Ecclestone’s personal fiefdom.
Alunni Bravi qualified and worked as a lawyer while moonlighting as a journalist for Italian publications Vroom and Autosprint, initially at weekends before landing a full-time gig covering F1 for Autosprint in the early 2000s. But arguably the making of him was a request to attend to some legal niceties surrounding the organisation of a European F3000 race in the Sardinian coastal town of Cagliari in 2002.
