Alfa Romeo established to race with unchanged driver line-up in 2024

Alfa Romeo will head into the 2024 time with an unchanged line-up, as the staff verified that present motorists, Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu, will proceed their romance with the Hinwil squad for a 3rd 12 months managing.

Forward of the Singapore Grand Prix, Alfa Romeo set all items of the puzzle in put as they verified that they will race with an unchanged driver line-up in the forthcoming time.

Bottas, a 10-time race winner in Method 1, will enter the 3rd chapter of the multi-12 months offer he struck with the staff from 2022 onwards. The staff will proceed to companion the sport’s very first Chinese driver Guanyu, who will race on dwelling soil for the very first time in F1, with the Chinese Grand Prix returning to the calendar up coming 12 months.

Commenting on the announcement, Alfa Romeo Workforce Agent Alessandro Alunni Bravi extra: “The selection to proceed our journey with our driver line-up unchanged is testomony to the financial investment we have built in our job. Almost nothing in Method 1 alterations right away, and we have taken a acutely aware selection to concentrate on security and to retain creating our staff up with each other as we embark on an crucial time period of changeover.

“Valtteri and Zhou are motorists of identified expertise and ability and they do the job truly effectively with each other: they are effectively-matched and can force every single other. Valtteri has taken a authentic leader’s function inside of the staff, pushing us all to give our very best Zhou has built remarkable measures ahead in the very last two decades and we assume him to proceed on this trajectory in 2024. Now the baton is again to us – we have to give both of those motorists a very good car or truck and set them in the very best problems to execute.

“At last, I am pleased that Théo will keep on being with the staff for 2024 as a person of our reserve motorists: he has performed an remarkable work this 12 months, not just in F2, where by we will all assistance him as he fights for the title in Abu Dhabi, but also driving the scenes, performing with the staff in Hinwil.”

10-time F1 race winner Valtteri Bottas claimed: “I have a sensation we have an enjoyable journey forward of us, so I am pleased and grateful to be in a position to glimpse ahead to 2024 figuring out how the staff is shaping up. There is a very good environment inside of our squad, I get alongside with Zhou and we both of those force every single other difficult to increase.

“There is an remarkable sum of do the job heading on driving the scenes, in Hinwil and past, and now that the line-up is established for up coming 12 months, we can concentrate completely on increasing, starting off this weekend in Singapore presently. Each action ahead we make is a action ahead for this 12 months and up coming, so we are determined to give every thing we have each time we’re trackside or at the manufacturing facility.”

Zhou Guanyu extra: “Signing once more with the staff is usually a good sensation, specifically when we know how matters are shaping up. I am happy to be portion of Alfa Romeo F1 Workforce Stake and grateful for their rely on: I have been performing exceptionally difficult considering that working day a person and there is an remarkable degree of enthusiasm to retain performing so each working day ahead.

“My romance with Valtteri is truly very good, and we are performing carefully with each other and with the staff to force everybody ahead. I am also incredibly psyched about the chance to at last race with my staff in China, in entrance of my dwelling group. It will be a good instant and I’m happy to be in a position to share it with all people who have supported me.”

In addition, the Swiss-Italian staff has also verified the extension of its romance with 2023 FIA F2 championship chief Théo Pourchaire as a person of its reserve motorists. The twenty-12 months-outdated Frenchman has juggled a hectic program of racing along with his critical do the job in the simulator in Hinwil.

Théo Pourchaire commented: “Over the decades, the staff has turn out to be a family members to me and, thus, I am truly pleased and grateful to proceed my journey with Alfa Romeo F1 Workforce Stake and the Sauber Academy.

“The assistance I have gained from everybody in the staff has been fantastic, and I’m happy to be in a position to lead to the development of the total procedure. I have a great deal in me I can give to this distinctive team of people today and I’m wanting ahead to the long run. Of program, a good way to say thank you would be to complete the work in F2 in Abu Dhabi – I’ll give every thing to convey it dwelling for the staff.”