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In the early morning of March 21, Beijing time, the opening of the new season of F1 ended at the Bahrain Grand Prix, and Zhou Guanyu, a Chinese driver who played for Alfa Romeo's team, participated in the F1 race for the first time and finally ranked 10th, getting 1 valuable point for the team. After the game, Zhou Guanyu was so excited that he burst into tears, and in an interview, he frequently said, "This is simply incredible! For Zhou Guanyu, who is writing the new history of Chinese racing, I am afraid that it is only at this time that the pressure on him has been slightly released. It is worth mentioning that in the first time after the game, "Zhou Guanyu F1 debut scored" quickly landed on the first place in the hot search list, this 23-year-old boy this weekend, really stimulated the F1 sport to speed up in China, so that the sport really entered thousands of households in China.
In fact, in his F1 debut, Zhou Guanyu's departure was not smooth. He started at 15th and lost his rhythm when he reached the first corner, falling to 20th at one point. However, after 10 laps, Zhou Guanyu chased to 14th place, and by lap 11, he staged a very wonderful overtaking scene. As the first set of tires was close to exhaustion, 7-time world champion and British star Hamilton led the first station to change tires, and when he returned to the track with a hard tire that had not yet heated up, he happened to meet Zhou Guanyu. Zhou Guanyu's newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, using hamilton tires to grasp the problem of insufficient grip to surpass the opponent, although soon he was regained by Hamilton, but this picture has become a hot search in the whole network in China, and this is destined to become one of the most famous "famous scenes" of Zhou Guanyu's career.
At the moment when Zhou Guanyu drove the car across the finish line, the team took the lead in congratulating him through the walkie-talkie, and Zhou Guanyu, who finally relaxed, shouted excitedly, venting his inner excitement and joy. How valuable is this 1 point? You know, "car king" Schumacher's son Mick Schumacher from last year to F1, the entire debut season so far, has not yet scored points, and now Zhou Guanyu only used one game to complete the surpassing of Mick Schumacher, but also let the experts who look down on him smash the "colored glasses". After the game, Zhou Guanyu confided in the interview camera.
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It's incredible, really, it's hard to express your inner feelings in words right now. Because I think my dream since I was a child is to become an F1 driver, and then the debut can go from qualifying to Q2, to the main race, and now I get my first points, for me, this is not only to show the best of myself in the dream work, but also a great affirmation of myself. Because this winter, including last year when I officially announced, there were too many voices from the outside... For me, I feel like I deserve to be in the F1 family... Now I've done it and showed all my skills. I was very happy, and then I was very excited and proud to represent my hometown shanghai.
———— F1 Alfa Romeo team driver Zhou Guanyu
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As the first Chinese to appear in F1, Zhou Guanyu not only carries the hope of Chinese racing, but also carries the pressure of fighting alone. In mid-November last year, after learning that he had become an F1 racer, Zhou Guanyu said: "I have realized my dream, but after so many years, only I know how much suffering I have endured and how much pressure I have endured, which is invisible to others." So, how much effort did Zhou Guanyu put into this historic moment?
Born in 1999, Zhou Guanyu has been interested in racing since childhood. At the age of 8, Zhou Guanyu began to practice karting, and he quickly showed his outstanding talent in motorsport. After 3 years of studying karting, Zhou Guanyu won all eight races of the National Karting Championship NCJ-B (12 to 16 years old), becoming the first person of the same age group in China.
For the beloved motorsport, in 2012, zhou Guanyu, who was only 13 years old, went to the United Kingdom for further study. In the years that followed, he won the National Championship, the All England Championship and the European Championship in the 14-17 years old category, and a series of dazzling achievements began to attract the attention of the big-name teams, he became a ferrari and Renault driver academy youth driver, began to train in F3 and F2. In the 2020 F2 Championship, Zhou Guanyu took the podium six times and became the first Chinese driver in F2 history to win the championship in The Russian race in September. In F2 2021, Guanyu took it a step further, winning the championship 4 times and standing on the podium nine times, and finally winning the third place of the year. Zhou Guanyu proved his strength to the outside world with a stunning performance and entered F1 as desired.
To officially enter F1, having a "super driver's license" is a hard condition. But it is not easy to obtain this driver's license, Zhou Guanyu needs to be at the top of the F2, F3 and other events, in addition to completing 40 points in various events in three years, but also has at least 300 kilometers of F1 test mileage. As a lone Chinese player in the F1 racing world, Zhou Guanyu has no choice but to win respect and points by strength, and justifiably get valuable opportunities to participate.
In addition to the harsh conditions for qualifying, F1 also places high demands on the physical fitness of the drivers. During the race, the racer's heart beats 160 beats per minute. In addition, the neck is the most vulnerable part of human beings, F1 racing cars in the high-speed corner, the centripetal force of the driver is around 5G, coupled with the weight of the driver's head and helmet, the driver's neck will bear nearly 40 kg of weight when cornering at high speed. Also, while fighting gravity, the temperature of the cockpit during the race is as high as 50 or 60 degrees Celsius, and the total consumption and dehydration of body fat will exceed 4 kg after a race. In the face of these difficulties, the racer must constantly report the situation and tactics of the vehicle to the team, and respond to unexpected situations on the field at any time. It can be said that Zhou Guanyu can now become a qualified F1 driver, just in response to that sentence - where there are so many talents, excellent people always strive to cross the mountains. Of course, it is undeniable that Zhou Guanyu can join the ranks of F1 drivers thanks to the sponsorship he received behind him, but it should be noted here that 85% of the drivers in the F1 arena are self-funded, and the other 15% of the drivers are top drivers who do not need to bring capital to the group. For Zhou Guanyu, his next goal should be to go from "85%" to "15%".
Among the 20 drivers of F1 this season, Zhou Guanyu is the only "rookie". Compared with other people's hometown revisits, for Zhou Guanyu, each race is a new experience. When Zhou Guanyu left the relatively familiar Bahrain Saskill circuit, the "devil's test" against the newcomer really began. But no matter what, Zhou Guanyu completed the goal of scoring points in his debut, and for this young man who has been completely released, his future is worth more people looking forward to!