
Scuderia AlphaTauri today unveiled its 2022 F1 challenger – the AT03 – alongside its drivers, Pierre Gasly and Yuki Tsunoda, in an advanced online launch. Also, the Italian outfit become the second squad to run a 2022 Formula 1 car on-track, it has released edits of the digital car at Imola as part of its launch content.
AT03 will make its first official F1 appearance at next week’s Barcelona pre-season test. Last season AlphaTauri made its record points aggregate to date – 142 points – good enough for a fifth-place finish in the Constructors Standings. Gasly secured 110 of those points, with Tsunoda adding the other 32.
Pierre Gasly said: “This year sees a huge change to the car as, due to the new regulations, the look and design is completely different, so the team has had to start from a clean sheet of paper. We won’t know the true performance of the AT03 until we get it out on track at pre-season testing in Barcelona but so far, I think it looks great and I am very excited to get this new season started!”
“It really does look great.” Yuki Tsunoda confirmed, “Of course we’ve not seen the real car on track yet, but the new shape and design are really cool, and I think the livery suits it really well and I hope everyone enjoys the launch video.”
Franz Tost, Scuderia AlphaTauri Team Principal, said: “I am excited to finally reveal what our 2022 Formula 1 car will look like. It is a completely new era for F1 and we hope that this package will be very strong, following last year’s success. Once again, we have worked closely with AlphaTauri to launch our new car and I think we’ve managed to deliver something very special.”
Ahmet Mercan, CEO AlphaTauri, said: “We are excited about new beginnings this season and have explored a lot of interesting opportunities to add style aspects to F1. For Scuderia AlphaTauri, it is a new era in Formula 1, and for AlphaTauri it is a new era in style.”