Alpine to incorporate Antonio Giovinazzi in Hungaroring take a look at

Alpine are in a serious drawback proper now. They misplaced Fernando Alonso to Aston Martin and their reserve driver Oscar Piastri left for McLaren.

After being put on this unlucky state of affairs, Alpine should search for a second driver for the 2023 season. They’re reportedly conducting a particular take a look at at Hungaroring, the host of the Hungarian GP, earlier than the Singapore GP on October 2.

Motorsport.com additionally studies that the non-public take a look at will embody Antonio Giovinazzi, Ferrari’s reserve driver. Different rumored individuals of the take a look at embody Alpine academy driver Jack Doohan, Nyck de Vries, and Colton Herta.

Giovinazzi final raced in F1 within the 2021 season for Alfa Romeo. His seat was taken by Zhou Guanyu within the 2022 season. Giovinazzi was the 2015 F3 European Championship runner-up and the 2016 GP-2 world championship runner-up with Prema Racing. He made his full-season F1 debut in 2019 changing Marcus Ericsson at Alfa Romeo.

He completed the season seventeenth within the drivers championship with 14 factors and a career-best fifth place end on the Brazilian Grand Prix. The next season, he once more completed seventeenth within the driver’s championship with 4 factors, the identical as teammate Kimi Räikkönen.

Giovinazzi outqualified his Finnish teammate in 9 of the season’s 17 races. Within the 2021 season, the Italian completed 18th within the championship and scored three factors.

He was let go by Alfa Romeo on the finish of the season. Ferrari retained the Italian as a reserve driver for the 2022 season. Alfa Romeo changed the Italian with Chinese language F2 driver Zhou Gianyu. Giovinazzi was not pleased with the choice and voiced his displeasure on social media. He tweeted:

“F1 is emotion, expertise, automobiles, threat, pace. However when cash guidelines it may be ruthless. I imagine within the shock of an sudden consequence, of massive or small victories achieved thanks to 1’s dedication. This was my first photograph on an F1, the final one has not but been taken”

La @F1 è talento, macchina, rischio, velocità. Ma sa anche essere spietata, quando a dettarne le regole è il denaro. Io credo nelle piccole e grandi vittorie raggiunte grazie ai propri mezzi. Questa è stata la mia prima foto su una F1, l’ultima non è ancora stata scattata 💪 https://t.co/Tm5bgIteN5

Alpine wanting ahead to upgraded automobiles at Singapore GP

Alpine is bringing a brand new flooring to the Singapore GP which might significantly improve downforce and subsequently enhance the efficiency of the automotive. The French group want to not less than end fourth this 12 months however McLaren will not be easing up. With 18 factors separating the 2 groups, the stress to carry out nicely in each race may be very excessive.