AlphaTauri hopes to melt some F1 hearts as it announces St Valentine's Day launch. The Red Bull-owned, Faenza-based outfit will take the wraps off its 2022 contender on Monday 14 February. Finishing 6th in the 2021 team standings, fifth would have been possible had rookie Yuki Tsunoda lived up to the pre-season hype. Though he began (and ended) the season in style, for much of the year he left his team exasperated, and one has to wonder if Franz Tost would have been quite so forgiving if the youngster hadn't had the support of Honda. Clearly believing some of the hype, in no time at all Tsunoda was effing and blinding with the best of them, criticising other drivers and even his team. All...
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