Alfa Romeo Retains Zhou Guanyu For The 2023 F1 Season

Subsequent season is slated to be Alfa Romeo’s final season in partnership with Sauber in Formulation 1. Whereas Audi has introduced its 2026 entry into the world championship as an influence unit provider, the German producer has but to disclose a accomplice F1 crew that it’ll provide. It’s broadly believed that Audi will take over Sauber to function as a manufacturing facility crew. Nonetheless, it’s enterprise as normal for 2023 on the Switzerland-based crew.

The Alfa Romeo F1 Workforce has introduced that Zhou Guanyu will stay on the constructor alongside Valtteri Bottas for the 2023 season. Zhou entered F1 as a rookie below intense scrutiny as he was chosen by Alfa Romeo forward of the 2020 Formulation 2 runner-up and crew reserve driver Callum Illot. F1’s first Chinese language driver earned the respect of many by means of the point-scoring end on his debut or the startling race-start crash he endured in Britain. As anticipated of most, Zhou has had a turbulent season up to now. Although, he has stored inside arm’s size of his veteran teammate by way of tempo.

On Zhou’s re-signing, crew principal Frédéric Vasseur stated:

“I’m wanting ahead to persevering with working with Zhou. From day one with the crew, on the Abu Dhabi check final 12 months, he has impressed me along with his method to work and that is all the time a really optimistic trait. We knew he was fast, however the best way he tailored to Formulation One in such a short while has been top-of-the-line surprises of our season. He’s a really good man, everybody within the crew likes each his persona and angle. He has had the humility to ask questions and be taught, from the engineers in addition to Valtteri, and the intelligence to use all the data he acquired to enhance race after race. He could have this expertise to attract on subsequent season, and I’m positive he’ll make one other step ahead as we proceed to develop our crew.”

The 23-year-old driver stated, “There’s extra that I need to obtain on this sport and with the crew, and the laborious work now we have put collectively for the reason that begin of the 12 months is simply step one in direction of the place we need to be subsequent season. There’s nonetheless so much to be taught, so much to develop however I’m assured in our work: I’m wanting ahead to the subsequent chapter of our story collectively.” Zhou continues to indicate the potential he had in F2 behind the wheel of a Formulation 1 automobile, and I’m excited to see how he develops as a driver in his sophomore season.