Alfa Romeo’s 2021 Formula 1 car - the C41 - has made its on-track debut during a shaꦰkꦫedown event in Barcelona.

The Hinwil-based outfit launched its C41 challenger at an event in Warsaw on Monday, with race drivers Kimi Raikkonen, Antonio ಞGiovinazzi, reserve driver Robert Kubica and senior team personnel incಞluding Fred Vasseur all present.

On Friday, Alfa Romeo released the first photograph of its new car running on track f🍸or the first time at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, where it was conducted one🎃 of its two permitted filming days with mileage restricted to 100km.

Kubica had ꦿthe honour of being the first driver to ge🎃t behind the wheel of the C41 as he logged a total of 29 laps. 

Alfa Romeo is the fifth team to have conducted a run for its 2021 F1 car, with McLaren, Williams, Red Bull and AlphaTauri also carrying out similar shakedowns ove🌌r the past fortnight.

Alfa Romeo technical director Jan Monchaux has predicted that reduced running ahead of the 2021 seaꦆson will result in a “very hectic” pre-season test in Bahrain.

"It's going to be frantic," Monchaux said. "Three days, it's quite short compared to previous seasons. The car car𓆏ries over a lot of components, so theoretically the risk to have a bad surprise is reduced.

"But I expect those three days to be very hectic on the track, with all the teams trying to put maximum mileage to make sure you have reliability, but also to ti𓄧ck off the box with respect to the performance expectations."

The Swiss squad will be hoping its latest F1 car is an improvement on last year’s C39, after Raikkonen and Giovinazzi were only able to muster eight points between them across the 17-round season as Alf🐻a Romeo ended the season eighth in the constructors’ championship fo🐟r the third year running.