Alpine F1 boss Otmar Szafnauer says his team’s clear target is to join the battle for second place behind dominant Red Bull. ⬇️
“We've lost out a little bit to Red Bull and the team that has made the most gain that we're racing, or hopefully we'll be racing against, is Aston Martin. So we've done a decent job over the winter. It could have been better, but we still haven't optimised.
“We had a decent race in Australia, running fifth until nearly the end... then a red flag, and we come together, and we lose a bunch of points. So the good news is the competitiveness was looking better at the last race, the bad news is we got zero points. “To me the most important thing is the competitiveness. As long as we have a competitive car, the points will come.”“We're not quite where we want to be,” he said. “So therefore we have to out-develop our competition. Our development curve has to be just a little bit steeper than the others, so that we can make up those three, four-tenths of a second that we're behind.“And I know everyone else says that too. I've seen Mercedes say a similar thing.
“So that's what we're all trying to do. And somebody will get it done. I just hope it's us. And we're working hard at making sure that it
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