Alfa Romeo F1 wants to make Giovinazzi a team leader

After a difficult debut season at Alfa Romeo in 2019, Ferrari-backed Giovinazzi showed a significant improvement in the 2020 season.

Due to a lack of competitiveness, Raikkonen and Giovinazzi were only able to score four points each when Alfa slumped to eighth place in the constructors’ championship, but Ferrari decided to give Giovinazzi a third season at Ferrari and opted for rookie Mick Schumacher at Haas. to place instead.

Although it is far from certain that the 41-year-old Raikkonen will stay in the sport beyond the 2021 season, Alfa boss Vasseur Giovinazzi has urged him to become more team leader and a more consistent performer in his third season “to take the lead take on his own shoulders “.

“I think the next step is to be more consistent during the race,” Vasseur told Motorsport.com. “But he’s been making a good step for some time now, improving on every single subject.

“It’s probably also about keeping the leadership of the team a bit on your shoulders in order to be able to make some decisions. But we’re on this path and he’s improving race after race. And I’m pretty confident about 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 got 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 gain valuable positions on the first lap of several races .