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Antonio Giovinazzi says Alfa Romeo had no issues at all on testing day one!

Antonio Giovinazzi says Alfa Romeo had "no issues at all" on testing day one!

20-02-2020 12:44

Antonio Giovinazzi says that he is very happy with Alfa Romeo's first day of testing despite setting the slowest lap time of anyone. The Italian says that the team were doing mostly high fuel runs, explaining the slow times compared to their rivals.

Test driver Robert Kubica was in the car in the morning but Giovinazzi got his chance in the afternoon, completing 78 laps and setting a best time of 1:20:096.

Giovinazzi had a tough start to his first full season in F1 last year, but improved towards the end and ended up scoring 14 points.

He said after day one: “I’m happy the start of this season was a positive one. The first feeling with the car is quite good and I can’t wait to be behind the wheel again. We mostly did long runs, so we still need to see how the car behaves with less fuel and a softer compound, but the important thing is that we had no issues at all. Let’s see how we continue in the next few days.”