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Although Alfa Romeo believe McLaren, Alpine and AlphaTauri are their main rivals, Xevi Pujolar is enjoying the occasional fight with Mercedes.
Until this season, Mercedes have been a lot further up the road from Alfa Romeo, the Brackley squad fighting for World titles while Alfa Romeo have been in a battle to avoid last place.
This year, it is a very different story.
The all-new cars have boosted Alfa Romeo to the front of the midfield, while Mercedes have fallen to the back of the front-runners so much that Valtteri Bottas has found himself racing against his former team for position.
He lost that fight in Miami, a mistake from the Finn after the restart dropping him from fifth to seventh as he was overtaken by George Russell and Lewis Hamilton.
But while Alfa Romeo were disappointed with the result, team principal Fred Vasseur saying that shows how much progress they have made, Pujolar says in truth they are battling McLaren, Alpine and AlphaTauri, not Mercedes.
“For us, our rivals in this race, we were mainly focusing on McLaren, Alpine and AlphaTauri,” said the head of trackside engineering, quoted by GPFans.
“But obviously if Mercedes were on target, as far as we can
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