Alfa Romeo has revealed the first images of its 2020 Formula 1 car, the C39, with Kimi Raikkonen comple𝕴ting a shakedown test at Fiorano.

Running a special all-black snake-inspired shakedown livery, Alfa Romeo is using Ferrari’s private tꦓest track to complete the🌌 first running of its new C39 F1 car before heading to pre-season testing next week.

Raikkonen has been charge♛d with undertaking🔯 the first laps in the C39 at the shakedown test, with the team set to officially unveil its 2020 challenger on the morning of the first day of pre-season testing at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on Wednesday February 19.

The Finn completed𓂃 33 laps of the Fiorano track without any reported problems. The team will now head to Barcelona to prepare for pre-season testing. 

Alfa Romeo Racing has an unchanged driver line-up of Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi for a second consecutive F1 campaign, while it has hired Robert Kubica as reserve🐬 driver for 2020. The move has also seen Orlen join Alfa Romeo as official 𝐆co-title sponsor of the Sauber-run F1 squad.

The Swiss team will be hoping to build on its eighth place finish in the 2019 F1 world constructors’ championship having enjoyed a strong start to the season before fading as the development race intensified between the midfield team♔s.

Alfa Romeo did enjoy a late boost at the hectic Brazilian Grand Prix where Raikkonen grabbed fourth place and Giovinazzi claimed a career-best fifth place following a pos🍨t-race penalty for Lewis Hamilton.

Raikkonen is set to surpass Rubens Barrichello’s record for most F1 race e♎ntries and starts this season. Following the postponement of the Chinese Grand Prix, Raikkonen will celebrate takin✅g the record for most F1 race starts at the British Grand Prix - assuming he makes the start of each race this year.

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