Alfa Romeo is the latest to get fired up for 2020

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The Alfa Romeo Racing team is the latest team to share footage of their 2020 challenger firing up for the new season for the first time.

Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes had already posted video of their respective cars coming alive on social media, and now the Hinwil-based, Italian branded squad has also joined the club.

From the number of fingers-in-ears visible among those assembled in the factory once the engine is finally revved up, the power unit is certainly loud enough this year!

You can see - and hear - for yourself, by pressing play:

Sadly. despite an introductory scene showing the team members looking on expectantly, Alfa has stopped short of showing off the full car ahead of the official unveiling.

That will take place on Wednesday, February 19 on the first day of pre-season testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya with Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi in attendance.

It's the same day that Haas will also be showing off their new car to the media in the pit lane, although the American squad has already posted full pictures of the VF-20 and this year's new livery on social media.

Ferrari will be the first team to hold a launch event on Tuesday, February 11, having decided to introduce their new entry at the historic Reggio Emilia theatre rather than at the team's headquarters at Maranello.

Renault will be launching their car in France on Wednesday 12th, with Red Bull inviting the press to Milton Keynes on the same day.

McLaren's new car will be rolled out on Thursday 13th at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, while both AlphaTauri and Mercedes have both gone for the romantic option of showing off their new sweethearts on Valentine's Day, Friday 14th.

Racing Point and Williams have both decided to wait until after the weekend to hold their car launch events at Mondsee, Austria and Grove, UK respectively.

Williams in particularly will be hoping for smoother pre-season preparations than last year, where delays in developing the FW34 caused them to miss the first days of pre-season testing - a setback they were unable to recover from for the rest of the season.

Following on-track testing in Spain between February 19-21 and February 26-28, the teams will head to Melbourne, Australia for the first Grand Prix of the year on March 15.

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.