After a difficult debut season with Alfa Romeo in 2019, Ferrari-backed Giovinazzi showed a significant improvement in the 2020 season. He qualified his much more experienced teammate Kimi Raikkonen by nine to eight and scored the same number of points as the Finn.
Due to a lack of competitiveness, Raikkonen and Giovinazzi could only score four points each when Alfa dropped to eighth place in the constructors’ championship. Ferrari, however, decided to give Giovinazzi a third season at Ferrari and place rookie Mick Schumacher at Haas instead.
While it’s far from the 41-year-old Raikkonen staying in the sport beyond the 2021 season, Alfa boss Vasseur has urged Giovinazzi to become more team leaders and a more consistent player in his third season, as the Italians say should “Take the lead on your own shoulders”.
“I think the next step is to be more consistent during the race,” Vasseur told Motorsport.com. “But he took a good step for a while, improving every single subject.
“It is probably also necessary to keep the leadership of the team on your own shoulders a little bit to be able to make some decisions. But we are on this path and he is improving race after race. And I’m pretty confident about the next year . “
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Vasseur is also impressed with the successes the 27-year-old Italian saw in his sophomore year.
“If you look at last year, he scored a third of Kimi’s points and was six times ahead of Kimi in qualifying,” said the Frenchman.
“Now they fit together, they have the same number of points, the same performance in qualifying.”
Giovinazzi told Motorsport.com that he was “very pleased with the work I have done this season,” particularly with his focus on improving his race starts which helped him take valuable positions on the first lap of several races .
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