First pictures: Alfa Romeo reveals its new F1 car for 2023

28 comments on “First pictures: Alfa Romeo reveals its new F1 car for 2023”

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   Tomcat173 (@tomcat173)
   7th February 2023, 9:44

   Looks great, but it’s got some Ferrari vibes!
   1. 

      Jay
      7th February 2023, 10:07

      Yeah! Rear wing is incredible, from behind. I hope it performs this year. It’s the first car launch I’ve watched live and they didn’t really seem all that excited about their prospects. I hope I’m wrong. I don’t really have a favourite team but if I had to pick, I’d pick Alfa!
   2. 

      David
      7th February 2023, 11:57

      Aside from being red, I see more Red Bull than Ferrari. But I’m sure the chassis design pros will have a full analysis soon enough.
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   Proesterchen (@proesterchen)
   7th February 2023, 9:48

   That’s a lot of bare carbon for a team that prided itself on being the only ones below the weight limit a year ago.
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      Dex
      7th February 2023, 10:41

      They’ve learnt from their mistakes then…
3. 

   Gubstar
   7th February 2023, 9:54

   The commentators are gonna have fun identifying this and the Ferrari from the front facing cameras. And if the Alpine livery is the same blue they will also have fun with that and the Williams.
   1. 

      Gusm.ai
      7th February 2023, 10:20

      I’ve been saying for some time that FIA needs a director of photography.
      Some cars in most condition – sunnny, cloudy, rainy – are impossible to distringuish, particularly when the camera position does provide for good contrast/light.
4. 

   MattJ
   7th February 2023, 11:01

   More bare carbon. I think the teams should get a weight allocation added to the minimum weight so they can paint the car. If they choose not to paint the car they can add it as ballast – preferably to the roll hoop. That’ll get the paint gun out.
5. 

   Qeki (@qeki)
   7th February 2023, 11:24

   Red and black work together but livery could have made better. Looks like a baby ferrari
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   Jere (@jerejj)
   7th February 2023, 11:35

   Cool livery & better than in the last seasons, & I notice that they’ve changed their steering wheel design from the slightly round-ish shape to a more squared one similar to Mercedes.
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   Fab
   7th February 2023, 11:43

   the front wing seems to be inspired by the idea of Mercedes’s front wing that has been banned
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   Bullfrog (@bullfrog)
   7th February 2023, 11:57

   The white bits were a mess, just like on the Ferraris, so this’ll look better especially if it’s a deep, sparkly red.
   Should be easy to tell them apart – the Ferraris will be the ones near the front…
   I’ll miss last year’s 20s-style Alfa logo (that’s 1920s!) but they never settled on an identity, which kind of sums up their time with Sauber
9. 

   Stephen Higgins
   7th February 2023, 11:58

   Faux-rarri…
   1. 

      Proesterchen (@proesterchen)
      7th February 2023, 12:18

      If anything, it’s a Faux-di.
10. 

    amian
    7th February 2023, 12:09

    Hah, they took the sidepods from Ferrari.

    It looks like it’s becoming a (boring) standard for many teams in terms of livery on the nose just being a colour stripe on top of it. Eh…
    1. 

       Proesterchen (@proesterchen)
       7th February 2023, 12:19

       Hah, they took the sidepods from Ferrari.

       Err … no? That’s a version of the sidepod ramp design that Red Bull was successful with last season.
       1. 

          amian
          7th February 2023, 12:40

          I meant specifically the front of the sidepods – the air inlets are Ferrari’s, and the top surface is a bit concave along Ferrari’s design as well.
          1. 

             Proesterchen (@proesterchen)
             7th February 2023, 13:18

             Ah, okay, thanks for the clarification! 👍
11. 

    theRealMax (@millionus)
    7th February 2023, 12:43

    Those wing mirrors look mahooosive.
12. 

    Jazz (@jazz)
    7th February 2023, 12:43

    Nice looking car and all, but the real news here is Valtteri’s magnificent mullet.
    1. 

       Bullfrog (@bullfrog)
       7th February 2023, 15:03

       but how much does it weigh?
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    davidhunter13 (@davidhunter13)
    7th February 2023, 13:26

    Now that’s how you do it. Wow.

    I hope the paint weight savings gives us some more black and less white all over the place like this. Looks so good.
14. 

    Alesici
    7th February 2023, 13:26

    And *still* that cursed rollover blade design will not die. So far it’s been used once, and it’s failed that once, in Zhou’s crash last year. I appreciate that the safety test’s static load has been increased for this season, but a crash instead involves dynamic impacts, and a rollover blade is not as efficient a structure at transferring dynamic loads as a rollover hoop.

    It’s also disappointing to see that the new rules on the mirrors have not moved them inboard, to be more within the driver’s peripheral vision. So the driver still has to turn their head to see behind them. I guess the teams construed to prevent the new rules agreed from affecting the mirror’s primary function of downforce generation.
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    JezH79
    7th February 2023, 15:23

    Hah! An actual car presentation and not just a livery slapped on the old or mock-up model. Interesting to see the sidepod design, seems to be more the Red Bull direction adjusted to suit the Ferrari engine. Makes me curious what direction the other Ferrari teams will go and what Mercedes has done! Nice livery by the way, Haas should take notice..
16. 

    mmertens (@mmertens)
    7th February 2023, 17:15

    Great livery, and an actual car! Hope it’s fast!
17. 

    Richard
    7th February 2023, 17:55

    The floor looks interesting
    1. 

       Alesici
       7th February 2023, 22:52

       The floor looks fake. I don’t expect to see them to even test it. Does look cool though.
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    cdfemke (@cdfemke)
    9th February 2023, 9:49

    Its so pretty!!! Just like a glossy ferrari :-) it will be so hard to differentiate between ferrari and alpha on TV, especially in night races tho

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