Alfa Romeo believe they will be on top of their soft tyre warm-up issues at the Canadian Grand Prix. With neither Valtteri Bottas nor Zhou Guanyu managing to make it into the top 10 in qualifying in Monaco or Azerbaijan, Alfa Romeo only scored two points over those two weekends when Bottas came home ninth in Monte Carlo. With qualifying being a clear weakness for Alfa Romeo at both rounds, the suspicion from the team has been an inability to switch on the soft C5 compound. 'Here [in Azerbaijan], some competitors are able to extract more performance on the first timed lap, and for us on the first timed lap we are struggling more,' Alfa Romeo's head of trackside engineering, Xevi Pujolar,...
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