Alpine A522

[GoranF1]

Alpine mechanics seem to prepare FIA car in the box.

[Tombola37]

Yes just a showcar. Presuming lunch break will be over soon so we should get some images this avo

[factory_p]

It is currently 4PM in Barcelona. Tracks usually stop the running at 5PM, on rare occasions it can be extended to 6PM.

It is surprising and slightly worrying we haven't heard anything about Alpine having covered at least a few laps yet.

[wogx]

He deleted it? I don't see that video

it is still on his instagram story

I couldn't find it.

It's really weird

[jacobianminkowski]

Thats the show car

[wogx]

Exactly. Then why they are preparing it? Alonso is in his racing suit

[NtsParadize]

Does it mean they will do the shakedown with a showcar?

[wogx]

No chance. it's a maquette, even that airbox inlet is fake

[Varusi_12]

The top air entry its fake. I think they are creating hype and I’m sure they’re hiding something. We didn’t see any real carbon yet.

[diffuser]

it is still on his instagram story

I couldn't find it.

https://www.wykop.pl/cdn/c3201142/comme ... Z4zdgs.jpg

It's really weird

That's an old video that they super imposed stuff on. Think even the tires are 13"

[wogx]

It's a fresh one from Alonso's IG. He wears his new racing suit, this can't be outdated. Additionally - it looks like it was recorded in a racing track garage, probably they are in Barcelona now

[Jolle]

Some might even think they don't have their car ready for the first test?

[max_speed]

I hope they have something good to hide. I am more concerned on whether they have hit reliability issues which prevented today's running.

[bucker]

Plot twist: They will run FOM show car for 22 season.

[stan_french]

I hope they have something good to hide. I am more concerned on whether they have hit reliability issues which prevented today's running.

you could be right, but i learnt yesterday that aparently they had bought 3 show cars, and since we saw 2 in Paris, the 3rd one is the one we see in barcelona. That would mean that they had anticipated using the show car, implying they more probably have something to hide?

Because if they had to bring the car from paris to barcelona today it would have been a mess, and on top of that we would have had pitlane pictures of it coming out of the truck this morning. At least I would think so.