After the week off, Formula One will get back on track with the Barcelona Grand Prix. The sixth round of the season will be a real watershed for many teams, called to moment of truth.
The competition for novelties
Therefore, define the Montmelò weekend as key moment of the season is clearly exaggerated, but not wrong either. Precisely for these reasons, there will be many teams ready to bring new riders packages of update for next week. Red Bull plans to continue his weight loss diet with the loss of weight checked which will range between 3 and 5 kg. Without forgetting the great expectations on Ferrari updates, perhaps considered the Favorite of the Spanish weekend. It will also be the moment of truth from Mercedes: the W13 is completely a project mistaken? The time will have come think see you next season?
There is also the Alfa
However, those who for the moment must focus on the 2022 vintage are undoubtedly Alfa Romeo. Valtteri Bottas' season is without for now exceptional doubt. The Finn has been almost perfect every weekend. Even in the last race, in Miami, despite the mistake in the last laps, ha finished in seventh place in the rankings. And to think that following the accident on Friday, he hadn't even raced in the second session. The Finn is really at ease on the C42 and who knows whether the combination: Bottas-Alfa Romeo can really represent the perfect couple per entrambi.
Word to Vasseur
Therefore focusing on this season, Alfa Romeo also cannot miss out with a new update package for Barcelona. There Bisicone stable in fact, in Montmelò, he will keep the top teams company and bring news to the fondo and on ali. Team principal Frederic Vasseur confirmed this exclusively to Formel1.de:
"We are experiencing a very close comparison in the central areas of the grid. We need to focus on our work and continue to develop the car. There will be a big update coming to Spain and we are currently focusing on the production of the parts".
"We have to think about ourselves, not about fifth, sixth or seventh position. The floor is a crucial part of the car, but performance doesn't just depend on it. There are many factors that need to be put together and we are all working hard on evolution” concluded the team principal.
STATEMENT SOURCE: Motorionline
