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Kimi Räikkönen and Antonio Giovinazzi face their fifth Formula One Grand Prix in Barcelona this weekend as official drivers of the Alfa Romeo Racing team and do so with the aim of continuing to improve race by race. The team has scored in all the great prizes of the season played so far and in Barcelona are especially optimistic, given the good results they got in this circuit a few months ago in the pre-season tests.The team's drivers, Räikkönen and Giovinazzi, in a meeting with the press in Barcelona with their respective street cars, the Alfa Romeo Stelvio and Alfa Romeo Giulia, were optimistic for the race in Spain and for the rest of the season.
A ceremony in the Grand Theatre in Warsaw, Poland, saw the attendance of a limited number of senior personnel from the Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN Formula One team – with media, fans and employees being invited to watch virtually in respect of the local COVID-19 regulations. Team drivers Kimi Räikkönen and Antonio Giovinazzi and reserve driver Robert Kubica entered the stage as the C41, in a striking new livery, was shown for the first time.Featuring a new color scheme designed by Alfa Romeo’s Centro Stile and featuring the now traditional red and white colors of the team, the car, designed under the coordination of Technical Director Jan Monchaux, represents an evolution of the C39 that competed in the 2020 season. Owing to the restrictions imposed by the regulations, the car carries over many of the components of its predecessor, while still standing out with its renewed appearance, in particular in regard to the nosecone, an area on which the team chose to focus its development tokens. Under the bodywork lies a new Ferrari engine, ready to rev in less than a week when the team embarks on a new season with the C41’s shakedown in Barcelona on Friday.
Kimi Räikkönen and Antonio Giovinazzi – Alfa Romeo Racing –ORLEN Formula 1 team drivers – participated in a day of real-world tests with Alfa Romeo’s new super sports sedans, the Giulia GTA and GTAm. Run at the famous Balocco Proving Ground, where all Alfa Romeo sports cars have undergone development and testing since the 1960s, the test session allowed the F1 drivers to test the cars to the limit and provide feedback in real time. Briefing and set-up sessions took place within the workshop of “Autodelta”, the historical Alfa Romeo racing department.
Alfa Romeo won its first Formula 1 race in Silverstone on 13 May 1950. The finish line was crossed by Nino Farina, who would go on to win the world championship in an Alfa Romeo Gran Premio Tipo158. Today, another world champion, Kimi Räikkönen, stars in a video that draws an exciting parallel to celebrate that feat.
The Alfa Romeo line-up representing the utmost in sportiness and beauty are there with the drivers: Giulietta Veloce, Giulia Quadrifoglio and Stelvio Quadrifoglio are present for a day on the Balocco proving grounds ahead of what is gearing up to be an extremely exciting racing seasonThe drivers of the “Alfa Romeo Racing” Formula One team experienced a day steeped in the Alfa Romeo brand ethos at the famous Balocco Proving Ground, the FCA group's iconic testing complex. It was here, at the famous Autodelta site, that the very first Alfa Romeo models were assembled. Since then, its sporting legend has been a string of victories and top-three finishes in many international championships, including Formula One. The brand won the very first edition of the Grand Prix championship in 1950, with Nino Farina driving an Alfa Romeo158. And the following year, Juan Manuel Fangio repeated this Formula One season victory in an Alfa Romeo 159.
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