Valtteri Bottas Gets Off to Rocky Start With Alfa Romeo F1 in Barcelona

We have finally been able to witness the new 2022 cars on track. The F1 teams are currently doing their official preseason shakedown at the Catalunya circuit in Barcelona. Every team is trying to get the mileage into the cars before heading to the official pre-season test in Bahrain. But there is already one team in trouble with the reliability of their car.

The Alfa Romeo racing could only manage 32 laps on day one of the shakedowns. Alfa Romeo driver Valtteri Bottas mentioned the team understands the reason behind the problem they faced on the first day.

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We just hope that we can get good two days here in Barcelona: Valtteri Bottas

As reported by Motorsport, the Finnish driver mentioned they faced some reliability issues and some technical issues with their car on the track. The team needs to work on these issues so they can get a better understanding of their new 2022 car.

“Yes, we did have some issues, and unfortunately, the issues we had were pretty costly with time. Some issues with reliability, some mechanical things. But we understand it luckily completely, and we know how to fix it. We just didn’t have enough time during the day to fix it properly,” said Bottas.

“For sure, today was compromised. I mean, we lacked quite a bit of mileage, but at least we got some running, and some kind of idea how to how to progress for tomorrow. We just hope that we can get good two days here in Barcelona after this,” said the Finnish driver.

The team is yet to officially launch its 2022 livery and has been running the camo livery to hide its new features. But encountering such problems so early in the shakedown is worrying as they need to deliver a car that is competitive.

Bottas would hope that the problems get solved before he heads to the track on Day 2 of the shakedown. Let us wait and watch how the car behaves next and if they can clock respectable timing and mileage at the end of the shakedown.

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