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Alfa Romeo's ‘extreme' design and ‘mechanical issues'

Conceding that Alfa Romeo had gone 'very extreme' with the design of the C42, Jan Monchaux has no idea if the team has resolved the reliability issues that blighted their opening pre-season outing. Alfa Romeo covered just 175 laps in the first three-day group shakedown, the second lowest tally of all the teams. With that in mind it didn't come as a surprise that the pace also wasn't there, the team slowest of all on the overall timesheet. The team's best lap time was a 1:21.885 set by Guanyu Zhou, which was 2.7s slower than Lewis Hamilton's fastest with Mercedes. Like their rivals, Alfa Romeo are having to learn about their brand new car, Formula 1 have adopted new technical regulations...
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