The Swiss squad was one of the first to call time on any upgrades for last year’s challenger, as it instead decided to focus all its resources on preparing its 2022 design for the new regulations.
But while it hopes that the work for this season will pay off, Vasseur has confessed that there were some negatives from not progressing with its 2021 car that he had not expected.
“We took very early the direction for 2022, at the end of ’20,” he told Motorsport.com. “And perhaps I underestimated the fact that we had 22 races to do with the same car.
“On the psychological side, it’s not an easy one. When you have updates coming in or into the pipeline, you always have a kind of, not motivation, because the motivation is there, but hope that we will bring updates. And that was not the case.”
Alfa Romeo eventually finished ninth in the constructors’ championship last year, as Williams leapfrogged it, but Vasseur is clear that the change of form was not just down to performance.
“The pure…
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