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The members of the Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN spent the past few days in the beautiful alpine landscape of La Thuile, a winter sports paradise in the Italian Aosta Valley. In an atmosphere of team spirit and camaraderie, the team focused on its strategies and goals for the upcoming Formula 1 World Championship. Jean-Philippe Imparato, CEO of Alfa Romeo, and Frédéric Vasseur, Team Principal Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN, were present along with the entire management and communications department, as well as Formula 1 drivers Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu.In the 2022 season, Bottas and Guanyu will pilot the newly designed racing cars called the C42. You face the competition in a Formula 1 World Championship, which is facing major changes due to fundamentally new technical regulations and therefore promises high tension.As the guest of honour, just a few days after the official online presentation, the Alfa Romeo Tonale celebrated its premiere in Italy. Alfa Romeo's first electrified SUV represents the metamorphosis of the brand. Alfa Romeo remains true to the Italian sportiness embedded in its DNA since 1910. But the new Alfa Romeo Tonale marks the beginning of a radical evolution of the brand in the areas of connectivity and electrification.
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.
The 21st edition of the Gumball 3000 is a non-competitive road trip covering some 3,000 miles, or just under 5,000 kilometers, connecting venues of the international jet set with numerous celebrities including artists, businessmen, trendsetters and philanthropists With their commitment, they support the goals of the non-profit Gumball Foundation, which promotes projects in youth work worldwide focusing on sports, infrastructure and environmental protection, so the real winner is always the good cause.The 2019 edition of the "Gumball 3000" has started on the Greek island of Mykonos and the finish will be reached on June 15 in Ibiza. Along the way are Athens, Thessaloniki, the yachting paradise of Tivat in Montenegro, Croatia and on 11 June 2019 the lagoon city of Venice. On the 12th of June, the participants stop in Balocco, northern Italy, on the test site of Alfa Romeo. Balocco is one of the historically most important places in the history of the traditional brand. Among others, the world-famous racing cars of Alfa Romeo were built here. From Balocco the "Gumball 3000" "goes on the last stages, over Monaco and Barcelona until finally to the finish in Ibiza.But the fast laps on the test track in Balocco are not the only tribute by Alfa Romeo to more than two decades of "Gumball 3000". Also on board is an Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio, which the Centro Stile Alfa Romeo has created for this occasion with a unique finish. In a similar action had already received the Formula 1 bolide Alfa Romeo C38 for official presentation on February 14, 2019, a "one-off" - painting of San Valentino. The race car piloted by Kimi Raikkonen on that day was decorated with shamrocks and hearts
On the stage from Venice to Monaco, the" Gumball 3000 "station at the Alfa Romeo test site in Balocco made it one of the most historically important places in the history of the traditional brand, producing many of Alfa Romeo's world-famous racing cars. It was fitting that the participants in the road trip through eleven countries in Balocco were welcomed by Antonio Giovinazzi, one of the two Formula One team Alfa Romeo Racing drivers.During their stay in Balocco, the teams of the "Gumball 3000" received a comprehensive insight into the Alfa Romeo brand, from their sporty character through their unique style to the great history. The Centro Stile Alfa Romeo presented a whole series of showcars as a representative of the extensive range. On show were, among others, the "Alfa Romeo Racing" special models by Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio and Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio, which stand in the characteristic colors of the current Grand Prix car Alfa Romeo C38 for the deep connection of the brand with the Formula 1.
2019 1000 Miglia - this year’s edition will be remembered as having further consolidated the historic bond between Alfa Romeo and the “Freccia Rossa” or Red Arrow Race: the highest podium step in Brescia was occupied by the Alfa Romeo 6C 1500 SS from 1928, driven by Giovanni Moceri and Daniele Bonetti, while the Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 SS Zagato driven by the Vesco-Guerini duo came a valiant second. Moceri is the current Italian Champion of Grandi Eventi ACI Sport, and in recent years has won all the major Italian historical regularity competitions: the Mille Miglia, the Targa Florio, the Nuvolari Gran Premio and the Coppa d’Oro delle Dolomite. The car he drove in this year’s competition, with bodywork by Farina, is part of the official FCA Heritage collection, normally on display in the Alfa Romeo Museum in Arese… the same car that won the re-enactment event in 2005, 2007 and 2008. Alfa Romeo was also awarded the Sponsor Team Trophy, thanks to Moceri’s win and the fifth place of the 6C 1750 SS Young driven by Cavalli and Gamberini.
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