Sorry, because after all we are talking about a team that bears an Italian name. And what name: Alfa Romeo. A brand that oozes history, this year debased by a team – Sauber – which has almost always complicated its life on its own with strategies that are at best bizarre.
Never as in this case is the vote explained by extra-racetrack factors. Of course, the car was not a masterpiece, but 13 points are a pittance, even considering the declarations at the beginning of the year, when the ambition was to return to the scrum package. Why didn’t this happen? The reasons are varied. The team that closed the midfield in 2020 – the AlphaTauri – has made an impressive leap in quality, vice versa the Alfa remained mired in its difficulties, blocked by its own contradictions.
Contradictions such as that of keeping a pilot clearly reluctant, as was the case with Antonio Giovinazzi, undeservedly treated as a patch and constantly disadvantaged by errors or incomprehensible strategies: in Bahrain a tire is missing at the pit stop, at Montmeló a tire is flat due to a defective valve, in Monte-Carlo and Mexico City it is stopped at the wrong time, in Hungary he is a victim of tire chaos; the Apulian will not have a perfect race pace, but in another team – with the same car – he would have collected more than the three points brought home. Same goes for Kimi Raikkonen, net of a few too many errors.
In our opinion, Alfa Romeo was the worst team in the championship. Not only because of the track, despite the ninth place in the constructors’ standings ahead of Haas alone, who deliberately gave up 2021 to focus on next season. Our 4+ also derives from a communication that is always wrong, for times and ways, just think of the radio teams with Giovinazzi in Turkey and the day in which the Italian was on foot: November 16, very late to find another solution. Solution that, fortunately for Antonio, has arrived. But Formula E is clearly a makeshift.
Alfa Romeo, 13 points. 9th place. Average: 0.59 points. In 2020: 8th place
Rating: 4+ | Seriousness sought
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