Alfa Romeo formally unveiled the C42 in 🍌an online launch on Sunday morning.

The livery maintains its tradition♓al red and white colours, with the former more prominent for thi🎀s year.

The Swiss outfit decided to run an interim liv🥀ery during the first test at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya while running its 2022-spec car.

It was a difficult t🧔est for Alfa Romeo as it managed 175 laps. Only Haas completed fewer.

Alfa Romeo has an entirely new driver line-up for this season with former Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas teaming up wit🎃h F2 graduate Guanyu Zhou.

Bottas’ Barcelona test was blighted with reliability gre𒆙mlins as he completed🐟 only 54 laps in the C42, setting the slowest time of the test (excluding Alfa Romeo test driver Robert Kubica).

Zhou fare🐟d better as he set the 15th best time of the Barcelona test, totalling 112 lꦚaps.

The Chinese drive꧅r is the only rookie on the grid for this season after spending the last 🍸few years in Formula 2, finishing third in the standings in 2021.

Alfa Ro♏meo finished ninth in the constructors’ championship in 2021, slipping behind Williams despite often having a more competitive 🅠car throughout the season.

Wi🅘th Bottas’ vast experience and proven race-winning pedigree, Alfa Romeo will be hoping to improve on ninth in the championship.

Speaking at the launch, team principal Frederic Vasseur said: "The start of the season is always an exciting time, one in which we see the fruit of the work of hundreds of people over a long period of time. The C42 is a car we look forward to seeing racing, notꦜ just because it is the first we built in this new regulations cycle, one in wh꧑ich racing should be closer and more thrilling, but because we have the utmost confidence in this car helping the team make a big step forward towards the front of the grid.”

Alfa Romeo will get another chance to get some important mileage under its belt when pre-season testing resumes in 🌱Bahrain o🐻n March 10-12.