Who should Alfa Romeo sign for 2022's F1 season?

OPINION: With Valtteri Bottas already signed up for 2022, all eyes are on the race for the second seat at Alfa Romeo next year. Antonio Giovinazzi is the current incumbent, but faces a tough competition from appealing short and long-term prospects

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Although Formula 1's driver transfer market has colloquially become known as silly season, most of the moves in preparation for 2022 were condensed into the first half of last week. That said, given the brevity of summer in the UK, perhaps it counts as a season after all.

In review, Alfa Romeo first cemented the signing of Valtteri Bottas after Kimi Raikkonen formally announced his arguably overdue retirement from F1. That preceded George Russell's long-awaited move to Mercedes, which then opened the door for Williams to sign Alex Albon. Apart from the Aston Martin seats, which are due to remain occupied by Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll unless the unexpected happens, there is only one seat left unclaimed – an Alfa throne without a steward.

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Jake Boxall-Legge Autosport’s Technical Editor. Having studied Automotive Engineering with Motorsport at the University of Hertfordshire, West Country-born Jake's original ambition was to design racing cars. During a year between studies in which he accidentally rekindled a love of writing, he took up a Master's in Motorsport Engineering at Oxford Brookes. Halfway through his master's year, he was offered a place on the Autosport Academy, conducting occasional freelance duties before becoming the press officer for Formula 2 and GP3 in 2018. Autosport offered him a return to the fold later that year to serve as its Technical Editor. His voice appears on a number of videos and podcasts, and can often be found writing about terrible Formula 1 cars in excruciating detail. In his spare time, Jake enjoys baking and blames his failure to make it past the Great British Bake-Off interviews on his tenuous grasp on choux pastry. His dream is to open a brunch cafe - and his willingness to make outrageous puns in inappropriate situations has earned him the contempt of his colleagues.