Valtteri Bottas has conceded he couldn't live with his youngster partner Zhou Guanyu's speed during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
Alfa Romeo showed up with high expectations in Baku, however with the proviso of requiring a "inconvenience free end of the week" to understand the maximum capacity of the C42.
However, it was everything except, with the speed that has procured Bottas a triplet of top-six completes this season tragically missing as he battled to try and arrive at Q2 and afterward began fifteenth - simply behind his partner.
In the race, the Finn barely neglected to add to his 40 focuses this term by getting back home eleventh, however he was dominated by Zhou who overwhelmed him among a few great maneuvers in the principal half of the race before distressingly being told by the group his vehicle would need to be resigned as an issue had been spotted.
The exhibition circle back was a surprising situation for Alfa Romeo over the setting of the time, with Zhou having just scored one point up until this point, and Bottas felt there was something substantially wrong with his vehicle which had been given a few reports on Saturday.
Asked by Motorsport.com what had caused his absence of speed, Bottas said: "I wish I knew. It nearly feels like something is on a very basic level wrong since we were so off the normal lap times and speed - even Williams were quicker than us toward the finish of the race, which isn't where our vehicle ought to be.
"We transformed from the old bundle to the new bundle for Saturday and from that point forward the issue began with the way of behaving of the vehicle. We'll see. I'm quite persuaded we will track down something.
"From Friday to Saturday it just felt like we lost back hold which is a piece odd in light of the fact that with the parts we transformed, it ought to have been expanding the backside. So we really want to figure out what's turned out badly.
"I got no opportunity to match Zhou's lap times today - he was in another association, right around one second quicker, which for me is very odd."
Xevi Pujolar, Alfa Romeo's head of trackside designing, was in total agreement as Bottas concerning what had occurred.
"Since Saturday we began to have some question marks on Valtteri's vehicle," said Pujolar. "Furthermore, in the race it was clear something was off-base. We really want to comprehend what it is, yet we can see something isn't correct.
"The two vehicles are unquestionably a similar setup. I would agree that it's a similar set-up, everything was something similar. There's something not functioning true to form."
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