2022 Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix highlights

Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN

Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN endured a tough weekend in Singapore, as Valtteri Bottas brought his C42 home in 11th place after a damp-to-dry race on the Marina Bay circuit. Team-mate, Zhou Guanyu, saw his evening end early as he was the victim of a collision with Nicholas Latifi, the resulting damage putting the Chinese driver out of the running.

Despite the challenging race, the team maintains its sixth position in the Constructors’ Championship with 52 points.

Valtteri Bottas (car number 77)

Considering where we started today, we probably got as much as possible. Of course, it’s always frustrating when you finish just one position away from the points, but at least we avoided any mistakes and kept it on track. Towards the end, the soft tyres were starting to drop, and I couldn’t close in on Gasly, but I think it was a good call to try going with them in the second stint today: I don’t think any other compound would have given us a better result. We can still take a few positives from the weekend: we showed good pace on Friday, and we have some upgrades coming to Japan; our car has proved to be working a bit better in dry conditions, so let’s hope for favourable weather in Suzuka to kick back right away.

Zhou Guanyu (car number 24)

It’s disappointing to finish a race with such a crash. There was not much I could do. I was side-by-side with Latifi in turn four, and he closed the space entirely and put me into the wall. The damage to the suspension was terminal, he got a penalty for this incident, but it’s not going to change much for me. It was not what we wanted, and it’s especially annoying as I think we had a decent pace. We just move on from today and shift our focus to Suzuka: it’s a new chance for us to do well, and I look forward to racing on that track.

Frédéric Vasseur, Team Principal

Despite the good pace we showed on Friday, it has been a difficult weekend. Yesterday’s wet qualifying compromised our day, as it was always going to be challenging to come back from 14th and 15th on the grid. The race itself was not easy, especially on a damp track: Zhou couldn’t do anything to avoid being taken out when he was showing good pace; Valtteri probably got as much out of the race as possible, and it was only a fast-charging Verstappen who kept him out of the points in the end. We tried giving him a fighting chance with the soft tyres, but in the end, that was not enough to finish in the top ten. We move on to Suzuka now, knowing our pace in the dry was ok and that we will be introducing some updates that should give us a boost in performance. We keep fighting to preserve P6 in the championship.

Alfa Romeo F1 Team best pictures:

BOTTAS Valtteri (fin), Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN C42, portrait during the Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix 2022, 17th round of the 2022 FIA Formula One World Championship from September 30 to October 02, 2022 on the Marina Bay Street Circuit, in Singapore

BOTTAS Valtteri (fin), Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN C42, ZHOU Guanyu (chi), Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN C42, portrait during the Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix 2022, 17th round of the 2022 FIA Formula One World Championship from September 30 to October 02, 2022 on the Marina Bay Street Circuit, in Singapore – Photo Florent Gooden / DPPI

ZHOU Guanyu (chi), Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN C42, portrait during the Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix 2022, 17th round of the 2022 FIA Formula One World Championship from September 30 to October 02, 2022 on the Marina Bay Street Circuit, in Singapore – Photo Antonin Vincent / DPPI

BOTTAS Valtteri (fin), Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN C42, portrait during the Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix 2022, 17th round of the 2022 FIA Formula One World Championship from September 30 to October 02, 2022 on the Marina Bay Street Circuit, in Singapore – Photo Florent Gooden / DPPI

77 BOTTAS Valtteri (fin), Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN C42, action during the Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix 2022, 17th round of the 2022 FIA Formula One World Championship from September 30 to October 02, 2022 on the Marina Bay Street Circuit, in Singapore – Photo Florent Gooden / DPPI

24 ZHOU Guanyu (chi), Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN C42, and 77 BOTTAS Valtteri (fin), Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN C42, action during the Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix 2022, 17th round of the 2022 FIA Formula One World Championship from September 30 to October 02, 2022 on the Marina Bay Street Circuit, in Singapore – Photo Florent Gooden / DPPI

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