It was announced earlier this week that Giovinazzi would be leaving Alfa Romeo at the end of the current F1 season, with the team instead opting to sign Formula 2 titl♕e contender Guanyu Zhou to🍷 partner Valtteri Bottas for 2022. 

Following the confirmation of his exit, Giovinazzi took to sꩵocial media to write F1 can be "ruthless when money rules" in what appeared to be a dig at Zhou’s significant financial backing. 

Giovinazzi’s comments did not impress Alfa Romeo team principal Frederic Vasseur, w🌌ho confirmed on Friday that the matter had been discu𒐪ssed internally.

“You can imagine that I was not very happy,” Vasseur said at the inaugural Qatar Grand Prix. “But on the other hand I ♔can understand that itꦑ was quite emotional for him. 

“We had a discussion. Now he knows perfectly that he has to stay focused on the next three evಌents - that it will be important for him. 

“Motorsport is a small world if you want to come back in F1 🦹he has to show that the motivation and pace are still there. 

“But now regarding the fact 💫that motorsport is driven by sponsors, it’s not new, I think every single team from the grid, they have sponsors, they have finance and that we have to deal with it. 

“But we 🎐a🤡ll have the same target at the end, to perform. It’s part of the job.” 

Ahead of the weekend, Giovinazzi vowed to remain professional in his final three F1 races🔯 with Alfa Romeo before making🐻 the switch to Formula E next season. 

"I think I have been professional in these last few years, and I will be professional these last few races," Giovinazzi said o﷽n Thursday. 

"So [I have] nothing to add, to be honest𓄧. With myself I'm happy, and I think I feel that I've been professional in these last few years, and will be in the last three races.