The Italian, who started 16th on the Sochi grid after a gearbox penalty, dropped positions following a hit from Mick Schumacher's Haas at Turn 2 on the opening lap and went𒊎 on to endure a difficult race due to a communications outage.

Giovinazzi’s radio silence prevented him from capitalising on a late downpour by pitting early for intermediates as he missed the chance😼 to potentially join his teammate Kimi Raikkonen in the points and ultimately finished 𒈔in P16.

“A silent race with no radio again from lap one to ꦡthe end,” Giovi💙nazzi said.

“I had contact on lap one and then I lost some time behind the Haa✤s and Willi🔯ams.

“Then no radio from lap one, so no 🌠commu🍸nication with the team,” he added. "That didn’t help with these conditions.

“I had no communication with the team, and in this case, you need communication, so just a difficult r💯ace from lap o🅺ne to the end.”

Alfa Romeo’s head of trackside engineering Xevi Pujolar said Giovinazzi was initially able to receive ♌messages from his race engineer but that the team could not hear him, before all commun꧋ication was lost.

“It was a tricky r🐎ace with the fue♍l management and then especially towards the end of the race with the weather,” Pujolar explained.

𓆉“Initially for a few laps we had the radio where he could꧋ hear us but we could not hear him and after a few laps we lost everything.

“So it was getting a bit difficult with what we♚ wanted to achieve and effecting his performance. We could not run to our optimum due to that.”