Alpine F1 Team Spanish Grand Prix – Charging on

2021 FORMULA 1 SPANISH GRAND PRIX
Circuit Barcelona Catalunya
7-9 May 2021

The team enjoyed a successful Portuguese Grand Prix weekend with both cars inside the points. Attention turns to Barcelona for this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, as Executive Director Marcin Budkowski explains the team’s development plan.

What makes the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya an interesting Formula 1 track?

Barcelona is the usual benchmark circuit in Formula 1, its combination of low, medium and high-speed corners means it highlights pretty well a car’s strengths and weaknesses. Additionally, Formula 1 pre-season testing happened on this track for many years, so the drivers know it particularly well.

Even if the conditions can be quite different between winter testing and May, when we usually race in Barcelona, it’s one of those circuits where teams and drivers are so prepared that there aren’t usually too many surprises. It will be interesting to see if this is any different this year given we all arrive here less prepared than usual.

What upgrades are planned for this race and beyond?

We have small things coming through on the back of some successful testing in Portimão, where we improved a few specific areas of the car. There’s more to come and, in general, we’ll continue to bring performance improvements to the car for the next few races, before we switch entirely our focus to 2022.

How does the team look back on the Portuguese Grand Prix and what’s the confidence level heading to Spain?

On the back of a strong race in which we showed good pace and achieved a double points result, we want to build on this good momentum. Barcelona, historically, hasn’t been one of our strongest tracks, but neither was Portugal last year, so we will aim to confirm our progress by putting both cars in Q3 and scoring more points.

Tyres:

Hard, C1 (White)
Esteban – 2
Fernando – 2

Medium, C2 (Yellow)
Esteban – 3
Fernando – 3

Soft, C3 (Red)
Esteban – 8
Fernando – 8

Drivers in Spain

Esteban Ocon
Starts – 3
Points – 10
Average Points – 3.33
Fastest Qualifying – 1:17.567 (2020)
Fastest Lap – 1:22.117 (2018)
Best Finish – 5th (2017)
Best Grid Position – 10th (2017)

Fernando Alonso
Starts – 17
Points – 124
Average Points – 7.29
Fastest Qualifying – 1:14.648 (2006)
Fastest Lap – 1:16.098 (2005)
Best Finish – 1st (2006, 2013)
Best Grid Position – 1st (2006)

Renault-powered cars in Spain

Starts – 141
Wins – 12
Podiums – 28
Pole Positions – 10
Fastest Laps – 8
Total points – 522
 

Last season’s team result

Ricciardo
Grid – 13th
Race – 11th

Ocon
Grid – 15th
Race – 13th

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