AlphaTauri reveals February launch date for 2021 F1 car
AlphaTauri has announced that it will reveal its 2021 Form𝓰ula 1 car on Friday 19 February.
The Fa൲enza-based squad has become the fourth team to confirm its launch plans for 2021, with its event taking place four days afterꦉ McLaren and three days before Alfa Romeo’s unveiling of its C41.
On Thursday, AlphaTauri confirmed 19 February as the date it wiꦓll reveal its 2021 challenger - the AT02 - on social media.
Reigning world champions Mercedes will present its W12 2021 F1 car two weeks later o🐭n 2 March, while the newly rebranded Aston Martin team is also set to launch its car in early March🌼 prior to pre-season testing in Bahrain on 12-14 March.
it's time to mark your calendars!
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the AT02 is coming...
All of the launches confirmed so𓄧 far will be digital, with physical unvei෴lings currently made impossible due to restrictions in place because of the coronavirus pandemic.
AlphaTauri’s latest F1 machine will be driven by Pierre Gasly and Yuki Tsunoda, who 💖has replaced Daniil Kvyat i﷽n the team’s line-up after a stellar 2020 Formula 2 season in which he finished third in the championship.
The 20-year-old Japanese driver has been 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:♈carrying out an extensive testing programme ahead of his rookie F1 campaign with pওre-season testing cut bܫack to three days.
Teams are carrying a significant proportion of their 2020 cars into the new sᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚeason due to a freeze on chassis development in a bid to save costs ahead of a maj💛or looming technical regulation overhaul in 2022.
Tsunoda has so far conducted four F1 tests with AlphaTauri in a bid to get him up to speed for his debut considering he will only get 1.5 days behind the wheel of the team’s🌺 2021 car before the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix on 2💯8 March.
AlphaTauri is planning on handing Tsunoda a further outing at Imola prior to pre-season testing so it can prepare him as much as possible as it eyes improving on its seventh-placed finis🌱h in the 2020 constructors’ championship.
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