The Alfa Romeo Racing C41 is a Formula One car constructed by Alfa Romeo Racing to compete in the 2021 Formula 1 World Championship. The car was driven by Kimi Räikkönen and Antonio Giovinazzi, who returned for their third year with the team.[1] Robert Kubica drove for the team at the Dutch and Italian Grands Prix replacing Räikkönen who withdrew from the events after testing positive for COVID-19.[2] The chassis was designed by Jan Monchaux, Luca Furbatto, Lucia Conconi, Alessandro Cinelli and Nicolas Hennel with the car being powered by a customer Ferrari powertrain.
The car is an evolution of its predecessor, the C39. Development of the C40, Alfa's next-generation car, had already begun before the new regulations were pushed to 2022; the designation was retained, with the 2021 car adopting the C41 designation.[3]
2020 cars were carried over into the 2021 season as a cost-savings measure due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. To allow development, the FIA introduced a token system allowing teams to develop only certain areas of their cars. Alfa Romeo spent their tokens on improving the nose of the car, adopting a slimmer design to redirect air over the bargeboards.[4]
Journalists and technical analysts Mark Hughes and Giorgio Piola described the C41 as the most-improved car over its 2020 equivalent, calling it "both more powerful and more aerodynamically competitive than its C39 predecessor" due to a combination of power unit development by Ferrari and Alfa Romeo's own improvements.[4]
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| Year | Entrant | Power unit | Tyres | Driver name | Grands Prix | Points | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| BHR | EMI | POR | ESP | MON | AZE | STY | AUT | GBR | HUN | BEL | NED | ITA | TUR | USA | MXC | SAP | QAT | SAU | ABU | ||||||||||
| Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN | Ferrari 065/6 | 13 | 9th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Kimi Räikkönen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Robert Kubica | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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