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Formula 1: the new Alfa Romeo promises to be "aggressive" and better than the previous model

2023-02-07T16:55:55.690Z


The C43, with a red and black chassis, was unveiled in Switzerland and has key rear-end modifications from the car that finished sixth in 2022.


There is less than a month to go before

Formula 1

starts the 2023 season, on March 5 in Bahrain.

For this reason, more and more teams are showing the weapons they will have for this championship in which

Max Verstappen

will defend his two-time championship.

This Tuesday it was the turn of

Alfa Romeo

, which presented the C43 with the promise of being "aggressive" and surpassing its previous model, which led it to occupy an important sixth place among the Manufacturers.

Now without the Frenchman

Frédéric Vasseur

as team leader, after he left to assume that role at Ferrari, the one who spoke at the presentation made in Switzerland was not the new head of the team, the German Andreas Seidl, but the director technician Jan Monchaux.

"I am very proud of what we have achieved in these last few months, because creating a new car is always a great team effort.

It is an evolution from last year

, it reflects the new regulations and introduces important changes in the areas where we find they are needed .

improvements," he said.

And he wished: "

I hope it is faster than the successful car of 2022

, that is the most important thing, and also more reliable. We have put a lot of effort in this direction," he remarked.

During the unveiling, which was held simultaneously in the Swiss cities of Zurich and in Hinwil, where the team is based, the C43 showed off bold red and black livery, aesthetically speaking, and several key modifications to the rear compared to with its predecessor, technically.

"We identified areas where we thought we still had potential to liberate.

We concentrated mainly on the rear of the car

, where we just wanted to be bold enough to take the next step in terms of pure development at the rear, which opened up the door to many other solutions that we were unable to implement last year," Monchaux reinforced.

Although the secrets of the new Alfa Romeo were kept, the team's technical chief explained that they changed "the rear axle, redoing the rear suspension and, therefore, the gearbox, which opens the door to new designs, especially on the coolant side."

"Then obviously all the rear end work that we see with the floor, together with the new regulations... So

the front end will be developed successively during the season

," he added.

“Last year we had the opinion that

we had reached a kind of plateau

and to unleash the next level of performance, we had to make all those changes that have been quite a journey for us, because it is a very, very big part and complex that we had to redo," he explained.

Lastly, Monchaux recalled the reliability issues they had last year and opened up that they lost what used to be one of their "greatest strengths."

"The (new) car hasn't run yet, so reliability is perfect!" Monchaux joked.

The new Alfa Romeo C43, driven by Finn

Valtteri Bottas

and Chinese

Guanyu Zhou

, will do a track test in Barcelona this week before heading with the rest of the teams to Bahrain for pre-season testing, from February 23 to 25. .

“We need to achieve more, it's as simple as that, we must always aim for the best, aim for the highest, the whole team and me included.

We always have to keep improving, that's what drives us, so we

hope for better consistency, more points, better results

, but how to get there, that's the tricky part.

That comes from all the details and from working very, very hard together as a team, ”reinforced Bottas, who since his arrival at Alfa Romeo from Mercedes has assumed a role" very different "from what his role has been in F1 .

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Source: clarin

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