Julian Rouse takes on the role of Sporting Director at BWT Alpine F1 Team, reporting to Team Principal Bruno Famin.

Julian joined the team during the 2022 season when he became Alpine Academy Director, overseeing the team’s young driver programme as well as identifying opportunities for young talent within the wider Alpine motorsport realm.

His involvement in motorsport began at a young age, inspired by his father Andy Rouse’s career in the British Touring Car Championship. Julian started working at Fortec Motorsport in 2001 during a dominant era for the team becoming a race engineer and later Team Manager on a number of different programmes.

In 2009, Julian joined Arden Motorsport, which was owned by Christian Horner, as Team Manager and Race Engineer, setting up their GP3 program, which later went on to win the Championship in 2012 and 2013 under Julian's leadership.

He was then promoted into the role of Sporting Director as the company expanded and eventually became General Manager overseeing all of Arden’s race activities across GP2, GP3, World Series by Renault and Formula 4 categories. Julian was then tasked by Arden to set up the R Motorsport GT program where he took on the role of Sporting and Performance Director with huge success in Blancpain GT World Challenge and events like the Bathurst 12 hours. He also spent one year as Chief Engineer for one of the R Motorsport DTM teams in 2019 looking after Ferdinand Habsburg and Daniel Juncadella.

Prior to joining Alpine, Julian worked as Team Manager at Garage 59 and TF Sport and experienced success at both the Le Mans 24 Hours and Spa 24 Hours.

Julian has over 100 race wins and 175 podiums whilst working in the motorsport industry.