Antonio Giovinazzi endured a frustrating start to his third (and potentially final) season of Formula 1.
Antonio GiovinazziBeat team mate in qualifying15/21Beat team mate in race10/20Races finished21/22Laps spent ahead of team mate466/1181Qualifying margin-0.28sPoints3
He ran in the top 10 in Bahrain but a slow pit stop ended his hope of scoring points. He missed another chance to bag his first points of the season at Imola, where he held 10th after the red flag period but was forced into the pits by rising brake temperatures.
The fates aligned against him in Spain as well where he gambled on an early pit stop during a Safety Car period only for the team to discover one of his replacement tyres was flat. His cursed day continued when he returned to the track and was given the wrong lap time delta information, delaying him further.
The upshot was Giovinazzi – and Alfa Romeo – could have scored their first points of the season much earlier. These were potentially valuable points lost…