The Italian, who started 16th on the Sochi grid after a gearbox penalty, dropped positions following a hit from Mick Schumacher's Haas at Turn 2 on the opening lap and went on to endure a difficult rac𓃲e due to a communications outage.

Giovinazzi’s radio silence prevented him from capitalising on a late downpour by pitting early for intermܫediates as he missed the chance to po🃏tentially join his teammate Kimi Raikkonen in the points and ultimately finished in P16.

“A𒊎 silent race with no radio again from lap one to the end,” Giovinazzi🥀 said.

“I had contact on lap one🍌 and then I lost some time behind the Haas and Williams.

“Then no radio from lap one, so no communication with the team,” he added. "That didn’t help with th🐼ese con𝄹ditions.

“I had no communicat𒉰ion with the team🗹, and in this case, you need communication, so just a difficult race from lap one to the end.”

Alfa Romeo’s head of trackside engineering Xevi Pujolar🥃 said Giovinazzi was initially able to receive messages from his race engineer but that the team could not hear him, before all communication was lost.

“It was a tricky race with the fuel management and then especially towards the end of the race with the weather,” P🌳ujolar explained.

“Initially for a few laps we had the radio where he could hear us but we could not hear him and after a few laps we🌱 lost everythin⭕g.

“So it was g🔴etting a bit difficult with what we wanted to achie🦹ve and effecting his performance. We could not run to our optimum due to that.”