Frédéric Vasseur felt that Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN The team did not demonstrate the full potential of their C41 Ferrari in qualifying for the team Grand Prix of Emilia Romagna on Saturday, which leaves the drivers sixteenth and seventeenth on the grid.
Kimi Raikkonen was closest to Q2 in Enzo and Dino Ferrari International Circuitbut the Finn was unable to find the few tenths of a second that would have gotten him through at the expense of Alpine F1 team‘s Fernando Alonso.
Teammate Antonio Giovinazzi will start in seventeenth, with the Italian losing a chance of another attack at the end of the first quarter after his round was ruined by the actions of Uralkali Haas F1 Team‘s Nikita Mazepin Direction Tamburello chicane.
Vasseur, Team Principal at Alfa Romeo and CEO of Sauber Motorsport AG, openly admitted that the qualifying result was not what the team had hoped or expected, especially with the pace the team showed during practice on Saturday.
He knows it will be difficult to recover from the back of the grid but they will do whatever they can to move forward and possibly fight for a top ten result on Sunday.
“Today’s result is not what we wanted, especially after the good performance we put in yesterday,” said Vasseur. “We just couldn’t demonstrate the full potential of our car.
“If we start where we are, our job won’t get any easier, but we know we can face a lot of the cars ahead of us and we’ll do our best to be on the ground we lost today. to make amends. “
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