Alpine F1 Team

What are the main characteristics of the legendary Imola?

“Imola is a classic Formula 1 circuit. In fact, I’ve been going there for 30 years, so it’s certainly seen a lot of different Formula 1 cars in that time! I think it will be interesting to see how this year’s cars can race at a circuit like Imola and hopefully we are able to put on a show. The track has a mix of low-speed chicanes and challenging medium speed corners, it will be good to see how our car stacks up with these different challenges from the first three rounds. It’s the first European race of the season after the early international races, so we’ll see how we fare and aim to continue our promising start to the season.”

How satisfied are you with the team’s start to the 2022 season?

“We can be reasonably satisfied with the first three races. Clearly, our qualifying performance is relatively competitive since we’ve had both cars regularly in Q3 and, had we got things right in Melbourne, we could have been as high as the second row. We need to improve our race pace and we’re investigating what can be done. There’s always the right balance to be found between qualifying pace and race pace and we need to continue to work on this to get comfortable with the car on low and high fuel. Overall, we’ve done a reasonable job and there’s plenty for us to improve. We’re in a sensible position and we’ve given ourselves a strong base where we can move forwards from. Our job now is getting on top of the niggling reliability issues to allow us to focus on bringing upgrades to the car.”

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