Flavio Briatore
Alpine Salary
Executive Adviser
Flavio Briatore's Alpine Salary and Net Worth in 2026
Alpine has never published Flavio Briatore’s pay, and even RacingNews365 lists his salary as unknown. Our band puts his base at £1m-2.5m ($1.3m-3.3m), pitched for an adviser who sits above the managing director and shapes driver and hiring decisions.
A bonus of £100k-750k ($133k-994k) would make his year £1.1m-3.25m ($1.5m-4.3m). Kursiv’s April 2026 salary list had him on €2.5m ($2.85m), which falls inside that range.
None of it compares with his wealth, which RacingNews365 puts at $400m, made mostly in business rather than F1.
Anonymous motorsport pay survey behind the 10% to 30% bonus range applied to Briatore's base band.
Source of the $400m net worth figure, which has no asset breakdown and treats his Alpine salary as unknown.
April 2026 list that puts Briatore on €2.5m, with unclear definitions of what the pay includes.
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What Briatore Does at Alpine Without the Team Principal Title
Briatore’s title is executive adviser, and the brief Alpine gave him covers recruitment, the driver market, how the team is organized and its competitive strategy. In practice, driver signings and senior hires go through him.
He doesn’t run the factory week to week. Steve Nielsen does that as managing director and reports to Briatore, so the two jobs sit one above the other. What Briatore adds is a record of winning at the same Enstone base, with Benetton in 1994 and 1995 and with Renault in 2005 and 2006.
Reports his June 2024 appointment as Alpine's executive adviser at 74 and the brief that came with it.
Briatore's Pay Beside Other F1 Team Bosses
Briatore sits with the F1 team principals because he’s the senior figure over Alpine’s F1 operation, and his £1m-2.5m ($1.3m-3.3m) band is above the £600k-1.5m ($795k-2m) we give Ayao Komatsu at Haas. Kursiv’s April 2026 figures show him on €2.5m ($2.85m), half the €5m ($5.7m) listed for Alan Permane.
Briatore's F1 Career at Benetton, Renault, and Alpine
Briatore has had three spells with the Enstone team, and the first two brought drivers’ titles for Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso.
Briatore at the Top of Alpine's Pay Scale
No one on Alpine‘s staff has a higher band than Briatore’s £1m-2.5m ($1.3m-3.3m). Philippe Krief, who runs the Alpine brand as CEO, comes next on £500k-2m ($663k-2.7m), and Steve Nielsen, the managing director who reports to Briatore, is on £300k-1m ($398k-1.3m).
Flavio Briatore Net Worth and Alpine Questions
Flavio Briatore is worth around $400m according to RacingNews365. There’s no published breakdown of his assets and debts behind that number, so it’s a rough guide rather than an audited figure. Most of the money came from his businesses outside F1, and his Alpine base of £1m-2.5m ($1.3m-3.3m) a year is small beside it.
Business made Flavio Briatore rich. He started out in fashion alongside the Benetton family, then built hospitality and fashion ventures under the Billionaire brand and invested in sport, including Queens Park Rangers. His F1 pay at Benetton and Renault, and now at Alpine, came on top of that.
Flavio Briatore was at the center of Crashgate, the plan for Nelson Piquet Jr. to crash on purpose at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix so a safety car would help Fernando Alonso win. He left Renault in 2009 and the FIA banned him, but a French court overturned the ban in January 2010.
Flavio Briatore’s title at Alpine is executive adviser, not team principal. He took on Oliver Oakes’s duties when Oakes resigned in May 2025 and has been the senior figure in charge since, with Steve Nielsen running Enstone as managing director. His team principal years were at Benetton and Renault.
Flavio Briatore’s Alpine base is £1m-2.5m ($1.3m-3.3m) on F1 Salaries’ figures, and a bonus of £100k-750k ($133k-994k) would take him to £1.1m-3.25m ($1.5m-4.3m). Alpine hasn’t disclosed his terms. Kursiv’s April 2026 list put him on €2.5m ($2.85m).
Flavio Briatore sets Alpine’s direction and Steve Nielsen runs the operation. Briatore’s adviser brief covers recruitment, the driver market, the team’s structure and competitive strategy. Nielsen reports to him as managing director and handles the day-to-day work at Enstone, so they hold different jobs, one above the other.
Between Benetton and Renault, Flavio Briatore ran Supertec, which leased rebadged Renault engines to F1 teams from 1998 to 2000. Renault had stopped supplying engines as a works partner after 1997, and once it bought Benetton in 2000, Briatore returned to run the team.