“We will hit the cost ceiling next year” – Alfa Romeo will receive a budget increase with the arrival of Valtteri Bottas in 2022

“We’ll hit the cost ceiling next year” – Alfa Romeo gets a financial boost as Valtteri Bottas joins the team next year.

The Sauber-led Alfa Romeo team is on a modest budget and relies mainly on their partnership with Ferrari and its sister company, after which the team’s name is adopted – Alfa Romeo.

On the way towards 2022, however, team boss Frederic Vasseur has announced that Alfa Romeo will receive a budget increase with the announced arrival of Valtteri Bottas.

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“We were well below the cost cap and will hit the cost cap next year,” said Vasseur. Signing Bottas is a crucial addition to the Switzerland-based team as Vasseur envisions his team’s progress on Bottas’ caliber.

You can see the progress

Vasseur boasts of his team’s progress, describes his arrival as the beginning of every step forward and aims to achieve more success with the additional funding.

“When I came into the company, we took a huge step forward, we were about 260 people – now we’re 520 or 530,” said Vasseur. “In the last three or four years we’ve had to work with around 300, including sales [of staff leaving]. “

“Now we have to do some fine-tuning in the organization, because I want to stay roughly at this level. We had to completely renew the factory. “

“The investment of my shareholders was very important because the basis at least on the system was good, but we had to take a mega-step forward and we did it and now we are more in the fine-tuning.”

“You also have to remember that nobody can say ‘OK, my organization is good’. Because we are in competition mode. And if you stop improving, you’re dead. “

“Even if you are Mercedes or Red Bull and you win every single weekend, you have to find the next step – ‘OK, I can do better in this area and in this area’. It’s probably a bit easier for us to find areas that need improvement! But we have to have exactly the same mentality. “