Alfa Romeo

Kubica was announced as Alfa's reserve F1 driver last month, shortly after he left Williams at the end of the 2019 season.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Alfa Romeo F1 team rebranded as Kubica joins in reserve role<br><br><br>The 2008 Canadian Grand Prix winner will drive Alfa's 2020 challenger on the first morning of winter testing on Wednesday, before handing over to Antonio Giovinazzi for the ...

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Kimi Raikkonen conducted the running of the car at Ferrari's official test track. The running is likely being classified as an official filming day.<br>The Swiss team is due to hold an official unveiling of the car ahead of pre-season testing at Barcelona in Spain next week.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Mercedes launches its 2020 Formula 1 car<br>Gallery: Mercedes's new W11 from all angles<br>Mercedes ...

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The outfit, which is operated by the Swiss Sauber squad in Hinwil, will wait until February 19, the first day of pre-season testing, to publicly show off its new C39 car for the first time. The launch will take place at 8.15am local time at Circuit de Catalunya-Barcelona.<br>Along with its 2020 race drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi, the team's new reserve driver Robert ...

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The outfit will wait until February 19, the first day of pre-season testing, to publicly show off its new C39 car for the first time.<br>The launch will take place at 8.15am local time at the venue of the test, Circuit de Catalunya-Barcelona, in front of the team's pit garage.<br>Along with its 2020 race drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi, the team's new reserve driver Robert Kubica ...

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The Alfa team started 2019 brightly with new signing Kimi Raikkonen scoring points in the first four races and had eight top-10 finishes in 12 grands prix by the summer break.<br>However, in Azerbaijan, Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi were eighth and ninth fastest but neither was able to take those positions on the starting grid, and the team left Baku with just a single point as Raikkonen ...

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Kubica made his return to the F1 grid with Williams in 2019 following a long absence triggered by his life-threatening rally crash eight years prior.<br>The 35-year-old scored Williams' sole point in what proved a miserable season for the Grove-based team, and made way for Nicholas Latifi in Williams' driver line-up for 2020.<br>Kubica was instead courted by the likes of Haas and Racing Point for ...

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Ahead of the 2019 season Sauber's F1 entry was rebadged in the name of the Italian car manufacturer, to grow the partnership that started in 2018.<br>Alfa's 2019 car retained Sauber's long-standing 'C' designation but the Sauber name itself dropped off the grid for the first time since its made its debut in 1993.<br>At the end of the first season as the Alfa team, Vasseur told Motorsport.com he ...

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Although he had a difficult start to the year, the Italian's seat was never really in doubt after his form improved in the middle of the year, and because there was no obvious alternative for a seat that is reserved for a Ferrari junior driver.<br>The best result of his rookie season thus far was his ninth place in Monza, although he was eighth on the road in Germany before receiving a penalty for ...

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The works Ferraris of Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc are expected to take the new unit in Monza next weekend.<br>All three drivers who changed today took a new V6, turbo and MGU-H. None of them will receive any penalties, as they are still within their season allocation of three elements, and the works cars will also be penalty free when they change to the new unit.<br>However, Alfa's Kimi ...

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Motorsport.com understands Ericsson will be at Spa on duty for the Alfa Romeo team, with which he is official third and reserve driver.<br>Sources have indicated there may be an issue that could prevent the team's regular race driver Kimi Raikkonen from competing and Ericsson was understood to be travelling to Belgium on Thursday morning.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Raikkonen explains reason behind ...

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Raikkonen signed a two-year deal with Sauber, which morphed into Alfa Romeo for 2019, after learning he would lose his Ferrari seat once the 2018 season had ended.<br>The 2007 world champion is eighth in the championship with eight points finishes in 12 grands prix, and has scored 31 of Alfa’s 32 points so far in 2019.<br>Vasseur told Motorsport.com: “The advantage with Kimi is before he ...

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The team formerly known as Sauber ended 2018 fighting regularly for top-10 finishes, but had a small slip in performance at the start of this year.<br>New signing Kimi Raikkonen has led the team’s progress to the head of the midfield battle again, and Alfa only trailed McLaren in the races leading into F1’s summer break.<br>Vasseur told Motorsport.com he was splitting the championship ...

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With Alfa Romeo being part of the wider Ferrari family, in terms of corporate structure as well as a technical tie-up that means Alfa’s F1 operation utilises Ferrari technology and some ex-Ferrari personnel, being at this year’s race to cheer Alfa Romeo on will effectively make you a cheerleader for Ferrari’s F1 B-team.<br>Kimi Raikkonen was on pole position and briefly led last year’s ...

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In this video, Edd Straw and Scott Mitchell join Glenn Freeman to assess Raikkonen’s switch back to his old team and explain why he is performing so well.<br>Raikkonen currently has 31 points in eighth place in the 2019 standings compared to team-mate Antonio Giovinazzi’s one point in 18th place, which reflects the 2007 world champion’s ability to lead a team trying to move up the ...

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Correa, who races in Formula 2 for the Alfa-aligned Sauber Junior Team, will sample the 2013-spec, V8-powered machine at French Grand Prix venue Paul Ricard.<br>The American will take over from fellow F2 racer Tatiana Calderon, who will make her third F1 test appearance for Sauber/Alfa Romeo in the C32 on Friday.<br>"Driving a Formula 1 car is something I have dreamt about since I was seven years ...

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But the details of how the matter unfolded after the German Grand Prix has opened up a fascinating scenario where the Swiss-based team may have found itself actually better off getting disqualified from the Hockenheim race rather than getting a time penalty.<br>Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi finished seventh and eighth at Hockenheim last week, but a post-race technical inspection found a ...

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The International Court of Appeal hearing will take place on September 24, the Tuesday between the Singapore and Russian Grands Prix.<br>Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi finished seventh and eighth on the road at Hockenheim, but both were given 30-second penalties for a breach of F1's clutch regulations.<br>The drivers who benefitted, and who would thus lose points the points they gained if ...

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The Swiss team’s drivers dropped from seventh and eighth to 12th and 13th at Hockenheim after they were given 30-second time penalties for a breach of F1’s clutch regulations.<br>The FIA stewards ruled that the clutches of the two cars operated in a way that potentially gave the drivers an advantage at the wet standing restart following the formation laps behind the safety car.<br><br>Read ...

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The 44-year-old replaces Jan Monchaux, who was recently promoted to the role of technical director as Simone Resta is leaving this week to return to Maranello.<br>Cinelli will start work at Sauber Motorsport on August 19th after what appears to be a short gardening leave following his 17-year-stint at Ferrari.<br>A graduate of London’s Imperial College, Cinelli’s first job out of university ...

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Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi were stripped of their seventh and eighth place finishes respectively after there was found to be an infringement with the clutch settings on the Alfa Romeo which potentially mimicked traction control.<br>Specifically, the team was found to have breached Article 27.1 of F1's sporting regulations, which specifies “the driver must drive the car alone and ...

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The drivers were penalised for an offence related to the way the clutch of the cars operated during the wet standing start, which was deemed to have potentially mimicked traction control in the tricky conditions.<br>The penalty - equivalent to an in-race stop-and-go - was the same as that which which be given for a false start.<br>Alfa boss Fred Vasseur has confirmed to Motorsport.com that the ...

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Giovinazzi has been compromised by bad luck on several occasions this season, and at Silverstone last weekend he spun off due to an issue at the rear of the car.<br>Although the lack of points is not entirely the Ferrari protege’s fault – his only score was 10th in Austria – it has inevitably put him in the spotlight.<br>Vasseur has been encouraged by Giovinazzi's recent progress, especially ...

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Resta joined Alfa one year ago when it was entered in F1 as Sauber, after establishing himself as an important part of Ferrari's design team.<br>Heading up Sauber/Alfa’s technical department gave Resta more responsibility and experience but it was not expected to be a long-term appointment.<br>Alfa has now announced Resta will leave the team at the end of July, with current head of aerodynamics ...

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