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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, told Motorsport.com.

“We are putting more on the second push lap. This is something we were working on, and I think we are getting there in Q2 but then we have to make more progress.

“I think for Montreal, we don’t see a reason why we shouldn’t be on top of it. But the problems from Monaco, they are gone.”

Those problems from Monaco were that the team admitted they had gone in the wrong set-up direction with the C42, Bottas struggling for grip and confidence throughout the rain-affected race.

“In Monaco we had some difficulties, but that was different,” Pujolar explained.

“We changed the configuration of the car and if you see the level of