2022 Formula 1 Mexico City Grand Prix highlights

F1 Grand Prix of Mexico – Qualifying

Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN

 

Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN brought home one valuable point from the 2022 Formula 1 Mexico City Grand Prix: Valtteri Bottas finished tenth, with team-mate Zhou Guanyu in 13th. It was a challenging race for the team, but the final reward of one point allowed it to extend its lead for P6 in the constructors’ standings to four points.

Valtteri Bottas (car number 77)

We got one point out of this race, and this is a positive, but we expected more today. We were doing okay until the second stint: when we switched to the hard tyre, we just couldn’t get them to work. I never got them up to temperature, and it was a bit of a struggle until the end. We thought the hards would be a good race tyre, but it wasn’t to be. It’s a shame, as in the first stint, we were on the pace with the cars around us, but at least we have something to show for it today, and we increased our advantage in the championship.

Zhou Guanyu (car number 24)

The beginning of the race was quite fun, and the extended stint looked good, but we ended up in traffic after the pit stop, which compromised my race a little bit. The second part of the race was trickier: making progress turned out to be quite difficult on this track, which of course, it is not easy, and it has definitely been one of the toughest for me as a rookie to get used to. I was happy to see Valtteri get the point for the team, and I hope some of my battles helped with this. In general, this weekend, we have been consistent and did a step up: we just need to keep working on our race performances to finish this season well.

Frédéric Vasseur, Team Principal

A point is always valuable, especially when it allows us to extend the gap on our championship rivals; of course, when starting in P6 and with the pace we showed throughout the weekend, the hopes and expectations were for more, but in the end, the race didn’t really go our way. We seemed to have the pace to be at the front of the chasing pack, just behind the three leading teams, during our first stint, but we weren’t able to make the most of the hard tyres after Valtteri’s stop, and we slowly dropped off. Zhou was on an alternative strategy but also seemed to struggle in the second part of the race and couldn’t return to the places he had before the stop. We’ll analyse this race and see what can be done better; in the meantime, we will keep building on the speed we’ve shown on Friday and Saturday, aiming to make the most of the final two weekends of the season to finish the job properly.

Alfa Romeo F1 Team best pictures:

Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN, ambiance during the 2022 Formula 1 Mexico City Grand Prix 2022, 20th round of the 2022 FIA Formula One World Championship from October 28 to 30, 2022 on the Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez, in Mexico City, Mexico – Photo Xavi Bonilla / DPPI

2022 Formula 1 Mexico City GP

24 ZHOU Guanyu (chi), Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN C42, action during the 2022 Formula 1 Mexico City Grand Prix 2022, 20th round of the 2022 FIA Formula One World Championship from October 28 to 30, 2022 on the Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez, in Mexico City, Mexico – Photo Florent Gooden / DPPI

14 ALONSO Fernando (spa), Alpine F1 Team A522, 77 BOTTAS Valtteri (fin), Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN C42, action during the 2022 Formula 1 Mexico City Grand Prix, 20th round of the 2022 FIA Formula One World Championship from October 28 to 30, 2022 on the Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez, in Mexico City, Mexico – Photo Florent Gooden / DPPI

VASSEUR Frederic (fra), Team Principal of Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN, portrait during the 2022 Formula 1 Mexico City Grand Prix 2022, 20th round of the 2022 FIA Formula One World Championship from October 28 to 30, 2022 on the Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez, in Mexico City, Mexico – Photo Xavi Bonilla / DPPI

ZHOU Guanyu (chi), Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN C42, portrait during the 2022 Formula 1 Mexico City Grand Prix 2022, 20th round of the 2022 FIA Formula One World Championship from October 28 to 30, 2022 on the Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez, in Mexico City, Mexico – Photo Florent Gooden / DPPI

during the 2022 Formula 1 Mexico City Grand Prix 2022, 20th round of the 2022 FIA Formula One World Championship from October 28 to 30, 2022 on the Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez, in Mexico City, Mexico – Photo Florent Gooden / DPPI




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