Formula 1
We have the utmost confidence in C42 – said Team Principal Fred Vasseur
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11 months agoon

Alfa Romeo has become the final Formula 1 team to reveal its race livery for the upcoming 2022 season.
Alfa Romeo formally unveiled the C42 in an online launch on Sunday morning.
The livery maintains its traditional red and white colours, with the former more prominent for this year.
In the 2022 season, Alfa Romeo will have Valtteri Bottas joining the team. The Finnish driver moves from Mercedes after Toto Wolff opted for a driver from the new generation in George Russell. Bottas will team up with Guanyu Zhou, who is the only rookie on the grid.
After not producing a positive display in the 2022 Formula 1 winter tests, Alfa Romeo team boss Frédéric Vasseur says he has the “utmost confidence” in the new C42 as the team look to move up the standings with the rule and regulation changes.
inishing seventh in this year’s Formula 1 standings is “a decent target” for Alfa Romeo in 2022, according to team boss Frederic Vasseur.
Alfa Romeo became the final team to officially unveil its 2022 car, the C42, when the covers were taken off its new livery for the upcoming campaign on Sunday.
Alfa Romeo slipped to ninth in last year’s standings, after three years of classifying eighth, and has not finished higher since 2013, under Sauber, when it was seventh.
“The most important thing is to improve, always to improve and close the gap with the best ones on the grid,” said Vasseur.
“You can have different KPIs in terms of performance, but for sure we are fighting for the championship and, at the end of the day, the final target is to improve the championship position.
“We had a disappointing season last year with P9 and we want to do much better this season, but I also want to close the gap in terms of pure performance – because this is the reality of the job of the people back at the factory.
“If it comes to numbers, I would say that P7 would be a decent target.”
Vasseur is wary that sizeable progress is only likely in the long-term but is hopeful the strategy approached in 2021, as well as the cost cap, will pay off for Alfa Romeo.
“It’s the first time we are developing and producing a car under the cost cap regulation,” he said.
“Of course, I think the big teams will probably retain an advantage, so we have to be realistic.
“It very often feels the same when you start a season: the first day is like the first day at school, you want to see who will be sitting next to you, but this one is even more exciting.
“We know that we stopped our development quite early last year, and that we were fully focused on 2022, so we want to see if we can reap the rewards of that decision.”
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Day 1 | 23rd February | 8:00am – 12:00pm | 1:00pm – 5:00pm |
Day 2 | 24th February | 8:00am – 12:00pm | 1:00pm – 5:00pm |
Day 3 | 25th February | 8:00am – 12:00pm | 1:00pm – 5:00pm |
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![]() | Haas | VF-23 | 31 January |
![]() | Red Bull | RB19 | 03 February |
![]() | Williams | FW45 | 06 February |
![]() | Alfa Romeo | C43 | 07 February |
![]() | AlphaTauri | AT04 | 11 February |
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![]() | McLaren | TBA | 13 February |
![]() | Ferrari | TBA | 14 February |
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Bahrain 2023 | ![]() | 05 Mar |
BRITISH TIME | ![]() | SESSION |
14:30 - 15:30 | Free practice 1 | |
18:00 - 19:00 | Free practice 2 | |
15:00 - 16:00 | Free practice 3 | |
18:00 - 19:00 | Qualifying | |
18:00 - 20:00 | Race | |
Bahrain | 57 laps | 308.238 km |
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1 | ![]() | Bahrain | Sakhir | 5th Mar. |
2 | ![]() | Saudi | Jeddah | 19th Mar. |
3 | ![]() | Australian | Albert P | 2nd Apr. |
4 | ![]() | Azerbaijan | Baku City | 30th Apr. |
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2 | ![]() | Lewis Hamilton | ![]() | |
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