F1 | Alfa Romeo, Raikkonen: “The car has a good balance, but we will only discover the true potential in Melbourne”

Among the positive notes of the first four days of collective pre-season testing, which ended yesterday on the Catalan Montmeló track, the name of theAlfa Romeo Racing. The Biscione team has in fact toured continuously both with Kimi Raikkonen that with Antonio Giovinazzi, not showing any type of problem related to reliability.

Raikkonen, who returned to the Hinwil team after 18 years, expressed all his satisfaction with the work done on the track without, however, going unbalanced in view of the official events which will start on March 17th with the Australian GP, ​​the inaugural race of the World Championship 2019.

"We didn't do any qualifying laps, we just ran with different types of tyres – underlined the 2007 world champion to Formula1.com -. Overall I think the car has a good balance, we will see our true level when we push".

The Finn, continuing with his discussion, then added: “Only rehearsals at the moment, but it was still fun to shoot. We are quite satisfied. We might have an idea next week, but we will discover the real potential in the first race and in the two/three weeks later".