While the others raised the tarpaulins to reveal their cars, or at least their design, to get to the Barcelona tests with their homework done, there was a team that went in the opposite direction and showed up for the preseason camouflaged, with a black pattern and white that we used to see so much before when tuning channels on analog television. Now, two days after testing ended, last in line, Alfa Romeo finally uncovers and reveals the C42 that Bottas and Zhou will carry in all its splendor.
As could be expected the decoration repeats its characteristic color palette in which red gains ground over white occupying most of a single-seater that already allows us to distinguish its shapes well. Studio images reveal what the camouflage of the new C42 was trying to hide, a simple nose line with a slight drop in the middle, wide open sidepods with a pronounced drop, upper air intake split in two or a fairly compact rear. As elegant as usual.
AS was already able to see first-hand how Alfa Romeo is facing the beginning of the new era by attending the coexistence days that the Swiss team held in La Thuile (Italy), but now the new drivers speak of the car in this way. “I’m impressed with our new car, I think the design is really beautiful,” says Bottas, who says the tests “helped confirm expectations and the progress” they’ve made. While zhou He is “very excited” to see the C42 in the colors with which it will debut at the World Cup.
“We have the utmost confidence that this car will help the team take a big step towards the front of the grid.” comment for your part FredVasseur, Alfa Romeo boss. The C42 will continue to be powered by the Ferrari engine, but it has its own gearbox and suspension, a real challenge for the team led by Jan Monchaux, technical director: “Designing and building this car has been a huge task, but our work is not done We must continue to extract performance to achieve the progress we have set ourselves as a goal.”
some difficult tests
Those from Hinwil will need that to recover the illusion that they may have seen diminished after a few difficult days in Montmeló. They were the second team with fewer kilometers behind Haas (175 laps) suffering obvious problems and they occupied the bottom of the combined times with their three drivers: Zhou was 16th and Bottas and Kubica (who remains as a tester and drove the first day), the last two. They have three days left, from March 10 to 12 in Bahrain, to try to correct their course or they risk not coming out of the last row.
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