“Terribly unhappy” Giovinazzi hopes F1 fortunes will turn around in Portugal | F1

Antonio Giovinazzi is confident that his bad luck in F1 at the Portuguese Grand Prix this weekend will come to an end.

Although Alfa Romeo hasn’t scored any points in 2021, it has made progress in terms of performance.

Alfa Romeo has said goodbye to Haas and Williams in the competition order and missed the top ten finish with both cars last time at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.

Giovinazzi ran ahead of his teammate Kimi Raikkonen before he was forced to make an unscheduled pit stop after a visor tore off his brakes.

“I can’t wait to be back in the car for the races in Portugal and Spain,” said Giovinazzi. “I have the feeling that we definitely didn’t reap what we deserved in the first two laps: We had terrible bad luck, especially in Imola, where we would have been ninth or tenth if it hadn’t been stalled in a brake.

“We have to use the positive aspects of these performances and use them as an incentive to improve in the next races. We know we are in a very close battle and that we can come home with some really good results if things go well the way. “

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Kimi Raikkonen finished the race in Imola in ninth place, but was later given a 30-second time penalty for not following the correct procedure under the safety car.

The 2007 World Champion believes Alfa Romeo is currently “not miles away” from the top midfielders.

“Two more races mean two more chances of a good result – something that we came very close to at the opening events of the season, added Raikkonen. “We’re not miles away, we’re in the middle of this fight and we can fight anyone in midfield if we do our job right and have a little bit of luck that we’ve missed so far this season.

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“Last year I had a fun first lap in Portugal, but it won’t cross my mind: in the end it doesn’t really matter how you start a race, it’s where you finish it and we have to finish the top ten, to achieve our goal. “