Alfa Romeo

Alfa had at least one car in the top 10 in all three practice sessions. Kimi Raikkonen was ninth in FP1, and his teammate Antonio Giovinazzi earned eighth in FP2 and then an impressive sixth in FP3.<br>After making it out of Q1 the two drivers could manage only 14th and 15th in Q2, with Giovinazzi then picking up a three-place grid penalty for impeding Nico Hulkenberg.<br>Both men lost places on ...

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The Italian outfit fast-tracked the introduction of its upgraded power unit for the Spanish Grand Prix in the hope of adding more performance to its car.<br>Team principal Mattia Binotto said in Spain that the move to bring forward its introduction, which had been originally planned for the Canadian GP, had not been easy.<br>"It has been a big effort and not straightforward and not obvious," he ...

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Alfa and the Ferrari Driver Academy have confirmed that the Formula 2 rookie will complete one day in the Alfa Romeo C38 at the Barcelona circuit, following the Spanish Grand Prix, after Mick Schumacher drives for the team in Bahrain.<br>This fulfills part of the team’s requirement to field two ‘rookie’ drivers across half of its four days of official testing during the season.<br>Schumacher ...

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Correa will drive for the Sauber Junior Team in F2 this year – an outfit run by Czech team Charouz Racing System – having graduated from the GP3 Series in which he finished 12th in his rookie year. <br>He struggled in GP3 with the Jenzer team, but was ahead of his teammate David Beckmann, before the later switched teams and immediately began winning races with Trident Racing. <br>American ...

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Nowhere is that more apparent than by comparing Mercedes’ and Alfa Romeo’s designs, with the five-time world champion outfit taking a more conventional approach while the former Sauber squad opted for a radical solution.<br>Ahead of the start of the new season, Jake Boxall-Legge takes a closer look at the two concepts to explain the different ways in which their wings attempt to manage ...

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The former Sauber entry appears to be in the thick of the midfield battle, although not quite at the front of it as the first week of pre-season had indicated.<br>Raikkonen said he had yet to find the limit of Alfa’s C38 but believes the team has the same unclear picture of the competitive order as the rest of the field.<br>“It’s a big mystery,” he said of his team’s position. “We’re ...

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Calderon joined Sauber, now Alfa Romeo, in a development driver role in 2017 and tested Formula 1 machinery for the first time in Mexico last year.<br>She had a second outing with the team later in year, taking to the Fiorano circuit in a Sauber C32 from 2013.<br>On Friday, Alfa Romeo announced Calderon will stay with the team as a test driver in 2019, and said she will get "some more mileage in ...

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The 2007 world champion is not driving on Thursday, with teammate Antonio Giovinazzi at the wheel of the C38 instead.<br>However, Raikkonen has not detached himself from Alfa's pre-season preparations on the penultimate day of testing.<br>Pictures and a short video posted on his official Instagram account show the Finn engaging in small repair job on his seat, ahead of his final day in the car on ...

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Schumacher, the son of seven-time world champion Michael, has joined the Ferrari Driver Academy after clinching the European Formula 3 title last year.<br>As reported by Motorsport.com, this new role had the potential to facilitate his first F1 test opportunity, either with the Maranello team or one of its customer outfits, Alfa and Haas.<br>"There is a shortlist and Mick is part of the shortlist ...

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Raikkonen has joined Alfa, which has taken over the title of Sauber’s F1 entry, after five years with Ferrari. <br>He drove Sauber’s 2018 car in the post-season Abu Dhabi test last year and believes serious progress has been made since then, after an encouraging first day of 2019 testing on Monday at Barcelona.<br>“It is very positive,” said Raikkonen, who finished fifth-fastest and ...

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Following its rebranding from Sauber over the winter, the team has tweaked the red and white colours compared to last year.<br>The new car, the C38, features an aggressive front wing design with the elements sloping down towards the endplate, plus an aggressive nose concept to help channel airflow.<br>The team’s 2019 challenger completed a successful shakedown at Ferrari test track Fiorano last ...

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The team, which has taken over Sauber's name and entry for 2019, gave its new challenger a shakedown run at the Fiorano circuit in Italy – using one of two permitted promotional events to run the car before the start of pre-season testing at Barcelona next week.<br>Autosport's Technical Editor Jake Boxall-Legge joins Glenn Freeman to analyse what the pictures reveal about Alfa's challenger ...

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The team, which has taken over the branding of Sauber's 2018 entry, is using one of its two allowed promotional events to run the car ahead of pre-season testing next week.<br>These first images from Fiorano reveal Kimi Raikkonen behind the wheel of the Alfa, which has appeared in a black-and-red camouflage livery.<br>The livery incorporates hearts, as the car has appeared on Valentine's Day, and ...

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A revised F1 entry list published by the FIA has confirmed Alfa has successfully requested to take over the chassis name from Sauber, as well the team's entry.<br>It cements the Italian manufacturer's first full F1 entry since 1985 as an extension of the partnership that began with Sauber last year, and confirms the Sauber name will not be visible on the 2019 grid after last week's announcement ...

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The emergence of Charles Leclerc in 2018 and his subsequent promotion after just one year in F1 has established the Monegasque as Ferrari's next big thing.<br>While 2019 is a major year for Leclerc, it also marks the end of a near-two-year wait for fellow Ferrari starlet Giovinazzi to move his F1 career on from two heavy crashes.<br>Giovinazzi would not be partnering 2007 world champion Raikkonen ...

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Alfa's title sponsorship of Sauber last year marked its first major F1 involvement since the 1985 season.<br>That partnership was always intended to expand onto a technical front to enable Alfa, part of the Fiat group that includes Ferrari, to become more actively involved.<br>The team will be entered into the 2019 world championship as Alfa Romeo Racing, effectively reviving the works entry that ...

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There was a time when Alfa Romeo meant a lot more to Formula 1 than some stickers on the side of a Sauber. The Quadrifoglio, an emblem forever identified with unequalled automotive grace and style, was the first superpower of the embryonic world championship and will always carry a special significance in F1.That's because the Alfa you see here not only won the first grand prix of ...

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Apart from minor branding on its sister manufacturer Ferrari, Alfa has not been involved in F1 since its works team project of 1979-85.The multi-year collaboration between Sauber and Alfa was announced last December with intentions beyond the significant branding the team's C37s are carrying this season.Sauber team principal Frederic Vasseur told Motorsport.com the technological ...

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Though Alfa has retained a minor link to F1 through small sponsorship tie-ups with sister brand Ferrari, its Sauber deal marks its first major grand prix racing role since 1985.Asked by Motorsport.com to explain the benefits of the Alfa Romeo deal compared to the one Sauber has struck with Ferrari as an engine supplier and technical partner, Vasseur said described it as “much more a ...

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Sauber has put itself on a completely different level for the 2018 season. Its close association with Ferrari and bringing the Alfa Romeo name back to Formula 1 can only be a positive.I was involved with the early Alfa Romeo/Brabham engine project in the 1980s and was only talking with Gordon Murray about those years the other day. There are many memories from that time, not ...

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As part of a closer partnership with Ferrari this season, team boss Fred Vasseur concluded a title sponsorship deal with Alfa for 2018.The logos of the Italian car manufacturer, a sister brand of Ferrari, prominently feature on the engine cover of the C37.The car itself adopts a new aero philosophy, which technical director Joerg Zander hopes can deliver a step forward in form."The ...

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Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne had long mooted both bringing the Alfa name back into F1 and using Sauber as a fully-fledged junior team, and those ideas came to fruition in December when Sauber announced its Alfa tie-in and deal to run Formula 2-winning Ferrari protege Charles Leclerc.Asked by Motor ...

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The Swiss team announced Marcus Ericsson and Charles Leclerc as its 2018 race drivers at a launch event near Milan. The covers were then pulled off a showcar, revealing a red and white livery, with a large Alfa Romeo logo on the engine cover.Sauber will have closer ties with Ferrari next season through the deal with Alfa Romeo.The multi-year deal includes strategic, comme ...

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