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Make history!Alfa Romeo official announces Zhou Guanyu to join F1 as China’s first man in 2022_Grand Prix

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Original title: Make history!Alfa Romeo official announced Zhou Guanyu to join the F1 race in 2022 as the first man in China

On November 16, Beijing time, the official of the Alfa Romeo team announced that Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu will become teammates with Bottas in the 2022 season and compete in the F1 Grand Prix together. Zhou Guanyu also made history and became the first F1 racing driver from China.

Zhou Guanyu was born on May 30, 1999. He has been in karting since he was 8 years old. At the age of 10, he won all the eight championships of the National Championship. In 2010, Zhou Guanyu went to the UK and went to school while training. In 2012, he started his karting career in Europe. During those three years, he successively won the All-American Championship, the All-British Championship and the European Championship in the 14-17 years old category.

At the age of 14, he was selected by the F1 team, joined the Ferrari Driver Academy, and officially started his formula career. In the 2015 Italian Formula 4 competition, Zhou Guanyu won the runner-up of the year. In the second round of the F2 Russia sprint on September 27, 2020, an accident caused a red flag. The race will announce that the race will not restart. Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu won the first F2 race championship of his career, becoming the history of F2 racing The first Chinese driver to win the championship.

On July 2, 2021, in the first free practice session of the 2021 Austrian Grand Prix, Zhou Guanyu drove a Fernando Alonso car for the race, collecting relevant data and performance tests for the team. This is his first F1 driving in a Formula One car. He is also another one after Ma Qinghua, who participated in the first free practice session of the Chinese Grand Prix in 2013, and Fang Junyu, who participated in the first free practice session of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in 2014. A Chinese racer driving a Formula One car, but neither Ma Qinghua nor Fang Junyu were able to get the chance to play in qualifying and the race.

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With the end of the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, news about the signing of the Alfa Romeo team with Zhou Guanyu spread. In addition to Zhou Guanyu’s excellent car skills, the sponsors behind Zhou Guanyu and the Chinese market are also important driving forces for Zhou Guanyu to appear in the F1 arena.

Earlier, Zhou Guanyu said in an interview: “My dream has always been to enter F1, become an official F1 driver, and win glory for the motherland. F1 is the apex of the pyramid in the racing world. My efforts over the past so many years are all for one day. To achieve this goal.” On March 20, 2022, Zhou Guanyu will usher in his personal and Chinese F1 race debut at the Bahrain Grand Prix in Sakir. (Tauranga)Return to Sohu to see more

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