Motor racing-We have to do better, says Alfa Romeo F1 boss Vasseur

We were P8 last season, we have to target to do a better result," said team principal Frederic Vasseur. Alfa Romeo have Italian Antonio Giovinazzi and 2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen, the oldest and most experienced driver on the grid at 41-years-old and with a record 329 race starts, in an unchanged lineup with Poland's Robert Kubica in reserve.


Reuters | Updated: 22-02-2021 20:34 IST | Created: 22-02-2021 20:28 IST
Motor racing-We have to do better, says Alfa Romeo F1 boss Vasseur
The online launch, which opened with concert pianists playing music by Polish composer Frederic Chopin and Italian Giacomo Puccini, was in Warsaw as the home of oil refiner and co-title sponsor PKN Orlen. Image Credit: Wikimedia

Alfa Romeo put their new C41 Formula One car centre stage at Warsaw's Grand Theatre on Monday and aimed at getting back into the midfield battle on track.

The Swiss-based team have finished eighth overall for the past three years, in 2018 as Sauber, but are hoping a revamped Ferrari engine provides more of a push in the last championship before major rule changes. "The philosophy of the team is always the same, that we have to do a better job tomorrow than today. We were P8 last season, we have to target to do a better result," said team principal Frederic Vasseur.

Alfa Romeo has Italian Antonio Giovinazzi and 2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen, the oldest and most experienced driver on the grid at 41-years-old and with a record 329 race starts, in an unchanged lineup with Poland's Robert Kubica in reserve. Raikkonen, who made his F1 debut in 2001, said he was still motivated.

"The racing and the driving (excites me)," he said. "I've never been a big fan of all the rest. But I enjoy the racing and the challenge to try to improve things and getting better." Only champions Mercedes and tail-enders Williams will also start with the same drivers as last year and technical director Jan Monchaux said that made life easier with limited testing available.

The online launch, which opened with concert pianists playing music by Polish composer Frederic Chopin and Italian Giacomo Puccini, was in Warsaw as the home of oil refiner and co-title sponsor PKN Orlen. The mostly red and white car is an evolution of last year's C39 with noticeable structural changes at the front end, where the team have used their two development 'tokens'.

The car will have a shakedown run in Barcelona on Friday before three days of testing in Bahrain on March 12-14. The season starts in Bahrain on March 28.

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