Raikkonen's team-mate remains the Italian Antonio Giovinazzi as the team continue with the same driver line-up, including reserve driver Robert Kubica. We have huge expectations and we will see what happens." We have some high expectations on some areas of the car. Vasseur said: "I hope we will close the gap. The car is driven by former Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas and rookie Zhou Guanyu. The C42 is built to the new generation of technical regulations, originally intended for introduction in 2021.
These modifications were aimed, he said, at recovering the aerodynamic downforce lost by a series of rule changes that have restricted the floor area.Īlfa Romeo were in a fight with Williams and Haas towards the back of the grid for much of 2020 and on average had marginally the slowest car in the field over one lap in qualifying. The Alfa Romeo C42 is a Formula One car designed and built by Alfa Romeo to compete in the 2022 Formula One World Championship. He said the front suspension and front wing, the aerodynamic shapers around the middle of the car and the floor at the rear had been the biggest changes. Technical director Jan Monchaux said the team had spent these on a new nose design, a structural part of the car that also has an aerodynamic influence. "We have to step by step work back to the top of the midfield."ĭriver Kimi Raikkonen said: "Hopefully we are better off than last year."į1 teams are restricted by regulation on the amount of changes they can make to their cars into 2021.Īerodynamic changes are free but structural changes are limited to two 'tokens'. All the team is motivated by the same target. Team principal Frederic Vasseur said: "We want to improve. La escudera Alfa Romeo F1 es una de las ms longevas y populares dentro del circuito de la Frmula 1, donde han corrido algunos de los pilotos ms talentosos a lo largo de ms de un siglo de existencia, por lo cual te daremos la mejor informacin del equipo para que puedas conocerlo mejor.