On the afternoon of February 27, Beijing time, Alfa Romeo F1 team ORLEN released its new car C42 for the 2022 season, the whole vehicle adopts bold and eye-catching red and white livery, and the green, white and red livery of the tail wing part highlights its identity as an Italian manufacturer.
What is Zhou Guanyu's evaluation of the first car of his F1 career, which has caught up with the big changes in the shape of the car under the new rules of the new season? In an exclusive interview with Five Star Sports, Zhou Guanyu, who has completed a three-day winter test driving the C42, said that he can quickly adapt and hopes to get points for the team!
I don't know what everyone thinks when they see this car
Anyway, the first reaction in the editor's head
It's the Italian team's 4WD "Excalibur"
This degree of reduction...
According to orlen, the design of this C42 is full of homage to the past, it looks back at the historical design of the past few years and the traditions of the Alfa Romeo and Sauber teams. It is worth mentioning that this year marks the 30th anniversary of Sauber Racing in F1.
In addition, Orlen Team Principal Fred Vasseur said at the launch of the new car: "The C42 is the car we are looking forward to seeing, not only because it is the first car we have built in the new regular cycle, but also because we have the greatest confidence in this car, the team will take a big step forward in the departure zone. ”
Technical Director Jan Monchaux added later: "Designing and building this car is a difficult task and we can be proud of what we have achieved, but our work is not yet done. As always, the development curve of the season will be the steepest in the new rules cycle, and we need to continue to extract new data from the tests of the C42 to perfect the vehicle and achieve the goals we have set for ourselves. ”
In the just-concluded Barcelona winter test, Zhou Guanyu has already driven this C42 for testing, but because it has not yet reached the release date, it is covered with limited camouflage paint, until this afternoon, the new car paint is officially unveiled!
At the same time, Zhou Guanyu also released his helmet livery for the new season and the makeup photo for wearing the racing suit of the new season.
The overall helmet is mainly purple and white, with some yellow lines. The most conspicuous thing on the helmet is undoubtedly the word "Guanyu" and the silhouette of Shanghai City on the side. In addition, the purple gold with the number 24 reflects Zhou Guanyu's heart to pay tribute to Kobe.
Zhou Guanyu is full of expectations for the upcoming F1 season, saying that the new era, new cars and new regulations have created an opportunity for all teams to improve, because everyone is starting from scratch.
Last season Alfa Romeo team only scored 13 points, the team leaderboard finished the 2021 season with ninth place, and the goal of the new season will undoubtedly be to fight for as many points as possible, but the new car C42 tested 175 laps in Barcelona, which is only more than the Haas team with the fewest number of test laps, which makes the team led by technical superintendent Jan Monchaux have to pay more attention to the reliability of the C42 before testing in Bahrain to recover the loss of these three days.
On March 10, F1 will launch its second three-day pre-season test in Bahrain, so let's look forward to Zhou Guanyu driving this cool red and white chariot to perform well!
Come on! Zhou Guanyu!