Alfa Romeo’s 2022 F1 car, the C42, has been seen in public for the first time at F1’s first test in Barcelona. Still in a heavy camouflage livery, details remain reasonably hard to define, but the Alfa Romeo C42 does seem to have one of the largest sets of air intakes on the sidepods yet seen.
The other obvious main difference to most cars is Alfa Romeo’s return to a split airbox air intake. With the roll bar reduced to a single vertical spike through two slightly set-back intakes. As it uses the same engine as Haas it’s perhaps not surprising that the two have similar sidepods, although only in terms of the broad shoulders for the C42 and VF-22. The car was running in the hands of Alfa Romeo reserve driver Robert Kubica. The full car and livery reveal will take place on 27th February.
Images courtesy of Motorsport Images and Alfa Romeo.
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