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Alonso not involved too much in Alpine 2022 F1 car development

Alonso not involved too much in Alpine 2022 F1 car development

All-new cars will be introduced next year after the current set of regulations are finally replaced, having been originally scheduled for 2021 before they were pushed back because of the pandemic.

Despite the postponement, teams were banned from developing their 2022 cars during 2020 in order to keep costs under control so teams wouldn’t have to work on two different projects at the same time.

Alonso, who returned to Formula 1 this year, says early restrictions in what was allowed meant he was not a big part of the development.

Asked how involved he had been in the process of the 2022 car, he said: “Not much, to be honest.

“If I’m honest, then the development has been followed by all the designers, the simulations, the new regulations were too strict at the beginning so there were a lot of clarification as to what we could do and not do with FIA and things like that.

“It is a strange new project for everybody, I feel. Now from December and January we will start the work in the…

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