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Alfa Romeo launch new 2021 car with dramatic debut ahead of new Formula 1 season

Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi on hand as the new Alfa Romeo C41 is revealed in glitzy Warsaw unveiling; Alfa Romeo struggled with distant eighth-place finish in 2021 F1 season and have focused at the front of new car for pace gains

By James Galloway

Last Updated: 22/02/21 3:48pm

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Watch the most eye-catching car reveal of F1's launch season yet as Alfa Romeo's C41 is revealed at an event in Warsaw.
Watch the most eye-catching car reveal of F1's launch season yet as Alfa Romeo's C41 is revealed at an event in Warsaw.

Alfa Romeo have launched the car they hope will start to transform their Formula 1 fortunes in the 2021 season.

The third challenger to be unveiled for the new F1 campaign which begins in March, Alfa Romeo's C41 was launched in a dramatic unveiling in Warsaw's Grand Theatre featuring drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi.

Alfa Romeo slipped behind the midfield with a distant eighth-place finish last season but have used their two permitted development tokens on a new 'nose' and front suspension to find more performance.

"Hopefully we are better off than we were last year," said 2007 champion Raikkonen, beginning his 19th season of Formula 1.

"We'll do our best whenever we'll end up to be."

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The C41 - which also features what engine suppliers Ferrari are confident is a new-and-improved power unit for 2021 - will make its track debut in a shakedown at Barcelona on Friday.

"I think the philosophy upon which the team is based remains the same - we have to do a better job tomorrow than we are doing today," said team boss Frederic Vasseur.

"We finished last season in P8, so we have to target a better result in 2021. To do so, we have to keep improving in each department, trackside and back at HQ.

"Every team on the grid has very high expectations right now: all the teams expect to do a good job in the winter and to be in a good position for the first race, but soon it will be the time for everyone to show their cards."

Can Alfa Romeo rejoin the midfield pack?

Alfa Romeo are one of only three teams to maintain their driver line-up from last year with the evergreen Raikkonen, 41, in tandem with Italy's Giovinazzi for the third season in a row.

Giovinazzi, whose seat had appeared under threat for this year from fellow Ferrari-backed Mick Schumacher before the German youngster was signed by Haas, enjoyed an improved 2020 relative to Raikkonen and outqualified the veteran over the course of the 17-race campaign.

But neither driver had the machinery to regularly compete for points, with the team scoring just eight compared to 57 in 2019.

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Quite an entrance! 🤩@alfaromeoracing reveal their 2021 C41 ⤵️#SkyF1 | #F1 pic.twitter.com/RSJ2XRTjA9

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Although running under the name of the famous Alfa Romeo car brand as part of a technical partnership which extended to naming rights from 2019, the team is still operated by Sauber Motorsport and based in Hinwil, Switzerland.

McLaren and AlphaTauri are the only other teams to reveal their new cars so far, with Red Bull next up on Tuesday.

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