This weekend, the F2 World Championship also had its finale in Abu Dhabi. Zhou Guanyu, who will enter F1 next season, performed well, winning his fourth title of the season in his second sprint race of his last F2 weekend. In the main race, he also won the runner-up and stood on the podium, achieving his goal of winning the top three in the drivers' points of the season. With four main races and nine podiums, he drew a successful end to his F2 career.
● Zhou Guanyu's last F2 weekend was perfect
In the sprint, Zhou Guanyu finished third, and just two laps later he grabbed the inside line at Turn 6 and completed a clean overtaking, overtaking Ralph Boxiong to second. After lap 11, the safety car had just withdrawn, the race restarted for more than ten seconds, and Marcus Armstrong's car broke down again, and he had no choice but to retire to give up the first place. In the end, Zhou Guanyu took the lead in crossing the finish line so that the national anthem once again resounded through the F2 car paddock!
In the final regular race, Oscar Piastri started in pole position (this was his fifth consecutive leg), Jack Dohan finished second, and Zhou Guanyu started in third place. This time, Zhou Guanyu's start was very good, and the first bend began to fight with Du Han. Finally, on lap 4, Du Han was forced by the pressure brought by Zhou Guanyu behind him, and the improperly operated body slipped out of the track, hitting the protective wall and triggering the track safety car.
After the restart of the game, the first Piastri continued his excellent form in these several stops, and the gap between him and Zhou Guanyu was always maintained at about 3 seconds. Although he was once chased by Zhou Guanyu to within 2 seconds because of the obstruction of the slow car, after that, he did not give Zhou Guanyu any chance. In the end, Piastri won the fourth consecutive race, and Zhou Guanyu did not make any mistakes, and finished second in the second round to finish the F2 drivers' standings this season.
Unlike F1, which saved the suspense of the championship until the last race, preme team driver Piastri locked up the position early before the start of the main race in F2 Abu Dhabi.
He first scored four points in qualifying for pole position and then 10 points on the podium in third place in the first sprint, which allowed him to stretch his point gap from second place to an unattainable number.
In the end, Piastri won his 2021 F2 championship driver title on the podium, and he became the third rookie season driver to win after Leclerc and Russell (6 titles, 10 podiums and 5 pole positions)! There are many foreign media that after Alonso retires next year, he will replace the position of the head brother to join the Alpine team. Think about the retirement of Kimi today, the car god in the hearts of these older generations is really a race to watch one less game. We look forward to these new generation of drivers to surprise us!
But in any case, after finishing the competition for F2 this season, what we are most looking forward to is our China "Week" next season! What kind of excitement will this bring to the No. 24 driver who will compete with Bottas in F1? I'm really looking forward to it!