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2023 Belgian Grand Prix – Preview

Alfa Romeo F1 Team KICK heads to one of the most iconic venues on the calendar, Spa-Francorchamps, for the final race ahead of the mid-season summer break. The team’s C43 will sport a special livery for the event, commemorating the successful partnership between Alfa Romeo F1 Team KICK and the Kick.com streaming platform. 

Alessandro Alunni Bravi, Team Representative: “We head to Belgium, on the historic Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, for the second leg of this final back-to-back before Formula One heads into the summer break. As the first half of the season wraps up, it is time to take stock of the work done so far: there is no denying we were expecting more from our 2023 campaign, but there are still several races to go before the chequered flag in Abu Dhabi, and we are determined to give our all to turn the tide, starting from this weekend. Sunday’s race in Budapest was a challenging one, as we couldn’t convert our strong starting positions into a double points finish; nevertheless, the team has been working on analysing what went wrong, in order to avoid repetitions in the future. We aim to keep building on the solid performance shown on Saturday in qualifying, to get back in the top ten and finish the first half of the season on a high. With this being a Sprint event, we will need to execute perfectly from Friday onwards and make the most of any opportunity we may be presented with.” 

Valtteri Bottas (Car 77): “Racing in Spa has always been enjoyable for me, and I have been on the podium three times there. It’s a great place to bring the first part of the season to the end and hopefully turn a page from last Sunday. We definitely expected more from Budapest, especially taking into consideration the solid performance we had put up in qualifying. As a positive, we got confirmation that the fine tuning that has been done ever since we brought the new aero package has been working, and I am looking forward to being back on track again to unlock further potential from our car. Indeed, we wanted more from these first eleven races, but we are just halfway through the championship, and everything can still turn in our favour. We have seen in the past how races in Belgium can often be unpredictable, and on top of that, this will be a Sprint weekend: we will need to be at our very best from the very beginning to catch any potential opportunity to do well, to go into the summer break with more points added to our scoreboard.” 

Zhou Guanyu (Car 24): “Hungary didn’t go the way we had expected, as an unfortunate issue with the brake system strategy during the starting procedure compromised my race, pushing me at the back of the field, and Valtteri’s as well. Still, that is now behind us, and we have used the few days between the two races to properly go through what happened. Spa usually marks the start of the second half of the season, while this time, it’ll be the last race before the summer: it’s been a tough first part of the season for our team, in which we surely had set higher expectations. Still, there are still many opportunities for us to kick back and put ourselves back where we belong, starting from this race.” 

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