F1 | GP Styria, bitter qualifying for Alfa Romeo

Saturday to forget at Alfa Romeo Racing. The two standard bearers of the Biscione team did not go beyond the sixteenth and nineteenth times, with Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi forced, like last Sunday, into a comeback race on the Red Bull Ring track. The driver from Martina Franca in the final stages of the first heat, also due to the adverse weather conditions, hit the barriers, losing some parts on his car and forcing the race direction to close Q1 prematurely.

"It's disappointing to go out in Q1 because today we had decent speed, much better than last week, but in the end we couldn't make it – said Kimi -. We had the potential for a good result and our times looked really good. I was doing some good laps at the start of the session, but I hit some traffic and was unlucky. I was putting everything on the line in the last attempt, I was improving, but then the red flag prevented me from finishing the lap. It's a wasted opportunity, but tomorrow we will try to recover positions. The conditions will probably be different, it will be a different day: we will do our best".