Alonso in the Barcelona test with the A522, photos and information

Despite carrying out a first day of filming on Tuesday at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Alpine did not publish any image of its new single-seater on the track, following a line opposite to that of other teams that did show their cars in video form. and photo.

However, this Wednesday, on the first day of the 2022 F1 preseason, no team could do anything to hide their cars (or at least the version they tested), and we could finally see the blue and pink A522 in all its splendor .

(See the photos of Fernando Alonso in the 2022 F1 test in Barcelona)

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After taking the start of the day with some calm, at 10:45 in the morning the Spaniard set the first competitive time with the C3 tires, a 1m23.317 that served him to be 3rd at that time, although he was soon overtaken by Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari. In almost two hours of session he did almost 30 laps with the new A522, and the French car was reliable.

However, Alonso had to wait in the garage for much of the time because his mechanics were working on the rear wing , theoretically with DRS problems. With less than half an hour to go in the morning, Alpine decided to go out again and rode consistently to add a total of 54 laps , which made them the fifth team with the most kilometers, and 7th in the standings, just thousandths ahead of Williams.

Alpine decided to split its first two days giving each of its drivers the full day, and at the premiere it gave all the activity to Fernando Alonso, before the A522 passes into the hands of Esteban Ocon on Thursday.

In the afternoon, leaving behind the possible problems in the rear, the two-time world champion accumulated laps and more laps until he exceeded 125. In fact, there was confusion with his real count of the kilometers he completed. Formula 1, in its table on the circuit and in what they showed on social networks, gave it 127, while Alpine published 129. And a mistake that was made in Live Timing, where Ocon appeared for much of the afternoon despite not participating in the test today, made us think that perhaps in those 127 Alonso had not been added the ones that they did tell Alpine.

Be that as it may, only Max Verstappen (147) did more laps than Alonso on this first day in which, with a time of 1:21.746, he finished eighth, but after having made his best time with C2 tires, the equivalents to the soft ones, slower than those used by most of its rivals.