MotoGP’s loss is F1’s gain

avide Brivio’s shock departure from Suzuki to Alpine in Formula 1 caused quite a stir, and for good reason. A former motorcycle journalist, Brivio worked with Yamaha for 20 years in World Superbikes and MotoGP from 1990 to 2010, taking on the role of the factory MotoGP squad’s team manager in 2002 and bringing Valentino Rossi – back then a three-time MotoGP world champion – to the marque from Honda in 2004. Rossi won on his Yamaha debut, and that year ended a title drought for the make dating