13 different drivers stood 🧸on the Formula 1 podium in 2020 and Alfa Romeo’s Antonio Giovinazzi is hoping to become the next new face on the rostrum this year.

Giovinazz♈i, who has a career best fin🌼ish of fifth place - scored in a chaotic 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix - heads into his third full F1 campaign with Alfa Romeo looking to move further up the midfield order after a difficult year.

Alfa Romeo’s 2020 campaign proved a struggle, with the Swiss🐻 squad rarely featuring in the battle for points after being hampered by Ferrari’s straight-line speed deficit and aerodynamic issues as♌ it took eighth place in the constructors’ championship.

A lack of competitiveness prevented Alfa Romeo from being in a position to fully c🍸apitalise on a number of crazy races throughout 2020, with three ninth-place finishes in Austria, Mugello and Imola the best the team c🌞ould muster.

The 2020 season produced five different winners - including shoc⛄k maiden victories for Pierre Gasly and Sergio Perez - while thre🍬e drivers notched their first appearances on the F1 podium.

Giovina🎃zzi is under no illusions that Alfa Romeo will need to make a significant improvement to⛎ be in with a chance of such a result, but the Italian remains confident.

“Hopefully we can have a better car just to fight more for the points,” Giovinazzi told ltxcn.top in an exclusive interview.

“This year [2020] was quite difficult, we would have two points just when i🥀t was a chaotic race or something happened at the front and we want to be fighting every race for points.

“My dream of course🍷 is to do a podium with ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚAlfa Romeo because it will be a really great thing for me and the team as well.

“This is my main target but of course we need a better car and try to be more close to the points and then we can fight also in so🍨me races when something happens, for a podium as well.”

While Giovinazzi could only manage four points across 2020, he came away from the season happy with his 🐎personal gains and performances compared to teammate Kimi Raikkonen, who he beat nine to eight in the qualifying hea♒d-to-heads.

And with an all-new Ferrari power unit already delivering “very promising” dyno figures, t✤here are reasons to be optimistic that Alfa can enjoy a much better 2021 campaign.

“Last season𝔉 [2019] we had a stronger car overall, en🐠gine-side and everything,” Giovinazzi explained.

“This season we have struggled a little bit more but saying that, I ꧂think♈ in terms of performance from my side I’m really happy.

“Also with the team, I think we’ve improved a lot from race one until the end of the seaꦯson and I’m re🅰ally happy with this.

“We worked quite hard to imprꦏove our car and𒐪 also to have a better car for next season and this is our target, to bring a better car from race one in 2021.”