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20 juin 2021

Grand Prix de France 2021 FIA (en anglais)

La séquence de points consécutifs d'Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN a pris fin au Grand Prix de France, Antonio Giovinazzi et Kimi Räikkönen franchissant la ligne respectivement 15e et 17e après une course difficile pour l'équipe (en anglais).

Grand Prix de France 2021 FIA (en anglais)

 

Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN’s streak of consecutive points finishes came to an end at the French Grand Prix, with Antonio Giovinazzi and Kimi Räikkönen crossing the line in P15 and P17 respectively after a challenging race for the team.

Coming into Sunday on the back of the positive results in Monaco and Baku, and a qualifying session yesterday in which Antonio missed out on Q3 for less than 0.2s, the team expected to be in the battle for the top ten: a good start by both drivers seemed to presage an afternoon scrapping for the points, but the reality of the race turned out to be different. In the end, in a race that evolved in a strategic chess game at the front but that ended with no retirements – for only the tenth time in Formula One history – the team couldn’t make an inroad into the points-paying positions.

A step backward after two forwards then – but the opportunity for redemption is not far away: we’re back racing in a few days already, as the team heads to Austria for a Spielberg double-header.
 
Frédéric Vasseur, Team Principal Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN and CEO Sauber Motorsport AG: “After two good races in the points and a promising qualifying yesterday, today was a rather difficult afternoon for the team. We made some progress at the start, but unfortunately our choice to go for a reverse strategy didn’t pay off. We started on hards but got caught in a lot of traffic and that cost us quite some time. In the second part of the race, we weren’t able to maximise the potential of the medium tyres as we had to deal with all the blue flags, so we couldn’t really make up any ground. We will learn from this, of course, and come back stronger for the double-header in Austria.”

Kimi Räikkönen (car number 7):
Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN C41 (Chassis 04/Ferrari)
Race result: 17th
Fastest lap: 1:37.992 (L46)
Tyres: New Hard (33 laps) – New Medium (19 laps)

“We will need to understand why we couldn’t replicate the good performance we had recently. I had a good start, then we struggled with tyre management, but I think it was the same for everyone: in general, we didn’t really have the speed we enjoyed lately. We had a much better pace when we switched to mediums, but by then we were already a bit too far back and, with all the time we lost to blue flags, we couldn’t make a difference to the final position. We’ll analyse this race and see how to improve for Austria.”

Antonio Giovinazzi (car number 99):
Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN C41 (Chassis 05/Ferrari)
Race result: 15th
Fastest lap: 1:38.702 (L36)
Tyres: New Hard (28 laps) – New Medium (24 laps)

“Unlike the last couple of races, we did not have the pace to get into the points today. We were good on the single lap yesterday, so we will need to understand what happened today. In the end, it was not an easy race, struggling in the first stint with the hard tyres and then not making enough progress on the mediums. I am looking forward to being back in the car in Austria: different track, different conditions and hopefully a different, better outcome.”

Media contact:

Alfa Romeo Brand
Alessandro Nardizzi      
Alfa Romeo Communications - EMEA
+39 338 623 9046         
alessandro.nardizzi@alfaromeo.com

Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN
press@sauber-group.com

Will Ponissi
+41 79 591 57 85
william.ponissi@sauber-group.com

Katharina Rees
+41 79 757 52 85
katharina.rees@sauber-group.com

 

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