The race is on and Alpha Romeo became the third team to launch its 2021 Formula One car,

with a new nose design and a few other details for us to get our teeth into. I'm Ed Straw and

joining me to talk all things Alpha Romeo, Gary Anderson and Mark Hughes.

Well, Gary, we've taken the opportunity to have your verdicts on the launches,

so you've watched the Alpha Romeo one.

What did you make of the music-based activities of this one?

Well, I was a bit surprised they didn't have Antonio Givonacci and Kimmy dance to me those two girls at the beginning, because that would have been, you know, dancing on ice or strictly come dancing. We could have been the judges, really, to see what would happen. But, yeah, I mean, it's difficult to know because the releases seem to be losing their way. I mean, I go back to the Jordan days when our first car was released in the corner of the workshop in Silverstone,

but we did get to have a Cirque de Soleil doing big things with the cars,

but, you know, it never got any better by going away from what the press release for the car should be.

It should be the car, the technical director, team principal,

a bit of a word with the two drivers, probably.

You might want to leave Kimmy out of that because he doesn't say it very much.

But we're all here keen and eager to see the car, and the dancing or playing the triangles

or the fashion show doesn't light my fire.

So we're going to rank them, them what are they number two in our

current ranking mclaren was the most uh was the most digressive one with its uh with it with its various

musical activities and alphotari's probably been the most to the point yeah i i wouldn't say um yeah

McLaren's was the most sort of uh yeah something or other i'm not quite sure what the word would be to use there. Disconnected, I suppose, from racing cars. So yeah, you know, it's one of those sort of things where I'm interested in the car. I'm not interested in all the paraphernalia around it. We've also got Mark Hughes. You joined me in the press conference, which was quite fun because I kept turning off the sound, and there was some random background music going and involved in it. But we did get to hear a little bit about the car from Yemon show, the technical director, and get a bit of a feel for it. So we'll take that as a win. Yeah. The one question that we didn't get time to ask, and which is the most obvious, is why it's the C-41. And last year's car was

a C-39. So what happened to the C-40? Was it just thrown away? Was it a bad design? So, yeah,

that's the most pressing thing that remains unanswered for me. I can actually answer the question.

What is now the 2022 car project started before? So that was the C40 project.

It gained its code. So next year's car is a C40. So we go backwards next year. Excellent.

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