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Added on the 02/03/2022 06:46:21 - Copyright : Auto Moto EN
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.
Lean, mean and absolutely gorgeous, Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake unveiled its 2023 challenger, the C43, at a launch event held jointly in Zurich and at the team headquarters in Hinwil, Switzerland. The world of Formula One has an early contender for the title of most beautiful car on the grid already. The C43, in a striking livery of red and black, will guide Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu in the 2023 World Championship as the team seeks to continue on its path of constant improvement.In the reveal video, the C43 emerged from raw materials and atomized parts, the resulting assembly symbolizing how the team is a union of individuals, each playing an important part in ensuring Alfa Romeo F1 Team’s success. The livery was designed by Alfa Romeo’s Centro Stile.Designed by the technical team, led by Jan Monchaux, and powered by a new Ferrari power unit, the C43 is an evolution of last year’s successful challenger, the C42; however, due to significant changes to the regulations from FIA, the C43 incorporates several updates and complete new parts with its overall development path still promising a steep improvement curve.The car is now ready to hit the track in a shakedown session, scheduled this week in Barcelona, and for winter testing in Bahrain at the end of the month.
"Stellantis Spotlight" is a weekly recap of some of the major stories at Stellantis. The top stories for the week ending January 27, 2023, include Fiat 500X makes Cars.com best value list, the Jeep brand celebrates 20 years of X Games and Alfa Romeo releases its third installment of its F1 docuseries.
The Tonale, the first all-new model from Alfa Romeo since the Stelvio in 2016, met all requirements for a 5 star rating, despite lacking centre airbags and proving to be an aggressive collision partner in frontal crashes. Overall, the SUV performs well in car to car and car to vulnerable road user crash avoidance tests and it offers an Attention Assist system that can detect driver drowsiness.
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