Alfa Romeo has had a busy morning. Watch 08.20 local time on the garage presented officially the new C38-car and nine were launched at the F1 winter tests.
Maybe excessive rushing to produce a small focusing error, since only five minutes of the test period after the start of the Kimi Raikkonen to spin up a new car, deep in the Catalan motor speedway of the gravel barrier.
the Alfa Romeo was buried in there so deep, it didn't get my own out, so first, Raikkonen was brought to the civil the backseat of a car back to the pits and after the C38 was raised pickup truck.
a Small setback does not, however, in the end, it hampered. Already in the first hour after Raikkonen had climbed as high result list, the second former team-mate Sebastian Vettel after. The lap time doesn't really matter at this stage. Much greater weight is the odometer reading, since it tells the car's reliability.
Raikkonen is there, too (10 rounds) shared third place together with mclaren's Carlos Sainz . Two more have had time to run only Vettel (15 laps) and Mercedes Valtteri Botta s (13).
Alfa romeo's tyres were buried in the gravel. AOPAlfa Romeo was buried too deep viitosmutkassa security area. Were called to the scene apuvoimaksi crane, which allows the car to get lifted. AOP