Alpine race director Davide Brivio says he doesn’t see any big differences in conversations with Fernando Alonso and MotoGP champion Joan Mir.
Brivio made a surprise move to Formula 1 from the Suzuki MotoGP team in January after leading the manufacturer’s efforts in motorcycle racing since 2013.
The Italian signed Mir for Moto2 in 2019, with the Spaniard winning the MotoGP world title in just his second season in the category. Since the two are world champions of their sport, Brivio says the conversations he has with the Spanish couple share many similarities despite their different career paths.
“Talk to me or [Alex] Rins and doing it with Fernando is not very different, ”Brivio told Autosport.
“The relationship that someone like me, who is not an engineer and not focused on technical or equipment problems, can have with the drivers is very similar in all cases.
“In my role, the relationship with the pilot is based on listening to him and making sure he is in the best possible position to offer his best version.
“You have to see if he’s happy or not, what he’s happy about and what isn’t.
“We’re talking about an athlete, so from this point of view there are hardly any differences between whether he drives a motorcycle or a car.”
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Brivio has previously spoken about the bigger differences he’s noticed between Formula 1 drivers and MotoGP drivers, and believes that F1 drivers have the higher workload of the two all weekend.
“I would say there are a lot of similarities,” Brivio previously told Quattroruote. “But I have to say that the driver in Formula 1 works more and spends more time with the team because everything is analyzed with great care and with a lot more people.
“He has to work with more engineers, he has to spend more time in briefings, analyzing data and taking it into account when he is on the right track.
“When the driver is on the track, he has radio contact with the team so that he continues to receive information that he has to consider.”
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