More Italian on Alfa Romeo's 2021 car? This is the expectation!

On Monday, Alfa Romeo will unveil the car that Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi will drive next season. The Swiss team under the name of the Italian car manufacturer will hope that 2021 will be a lot better than 2020. 

Everything seemed to indicate that 2020 should have been a good year. The Ferrari engine was very strong at the end of 2019 and there were good developments to be fast on the straight and in the corners. Ferrari, however, disappointed with the engine that Alfa Romeo had to use too. As a result, the team was very often out of the points and it was, therefore, a disappointing season.

Giovinazzi gets a leading role?

Alfa Romeo has been driving with the same line-up since 2019, namely Raikkonen and Giovinazzi. Where the Italian drove his first full season, Raikkonen came from Ferrari where he won a race the previous season. As a result, the Finn had little use for Giovinazzi in the first season. That already partially changed in 2020 and so 2021 must be the year for the Italian to take over the lead.

He should probably do that with a car that from the outside remains largely the same as the car of 2020. There are no major sponsor changes or changes within the team that the Alfa Romeo livery needs to be completely overhauled. Only the rule changes to the car will be reflected.

More Italian on the car

There is a possibility that Alfa Romeo, in addition to the red and white of recent years, will also go for green. They work with the colours of the Italian flag and that can cause popularity among the Italians. In Monza, Alfa Romeo has previously driven with an Italian accent and it could just be that we will see more of that on the new car.

In any case, Fred Vasseur's team aims to perform better than last year. With a record 23 races, they get at least enough opportunities to prove that they got stronger during the winter.

This article was written and originally published by Pelle on the Dutch edition of GPblog.com.