Several glitches with its C42 car curtailed the team’s running during the first test in Barcelona, with new signings Bottas and rookie Guanyu Zhou only getting a limited amount of laps in.
Alfa Romeo’s mileage improved at this week’s second and final test in Bahrain, the Hinwil team topping Saturday’s lap charts with 150 tours of Sakhir.
But it still encountered several issues, the latest one causing Bottas to lose drive in Turn 8 some 40 minutes before the end of the test.
While Bottas was reasonably happy with how his car felt, he admitted reliability was a major concern ahead of next week’s opening grand prix at the same venue.
“I’ll be more confident once we speak with the team next week and when I hear that all the issues we understand 100% and we make sure that they don’t happen again,” he said.
“Because at the moment my kind of biggest concern is doing a race distance because we’ve had multiple different kinds of issues during this test.
“We’ve been able to fix them,…
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