On 10 April, the 2022 F1 Australian Grand Prix returned to Melbourne Park after two seasons off due to covid-19. Zhou Guanyu, a Chinese driver driving Anfa Romeo racing, started from 15th and completed the overtaking of the 58th lap race many times, but unfortunately, in the end, because of the serious degradation of the tires, he was snatched up by Williams driver Alben, who only entered the station for the first time on the last lap, and regrettably won the 11th place again after the last leg, rubbing shoulders with the points. However, whether it is the adjusted Alfa Romeo car or Zhou Guanyu himself, this stop makes people see a stronger competitiveness. Zhou Guanyu, who set his goal of getting points before the season, also said after the game that the goal of each stop after that was to get points.
The Australian Grand Prix departs
This season, due to the adjustment of technical rules, various F1 teams are groping and adapting. Between the Bahrain Grand Prix and the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix over the "back-to-back" weekend, the teams did not have enough time to commission and upgrade the car, but before the third Australian Grand Prix, they had a 14-day preparation period, which immediately brought new changes to the track situation, such as the first two races only won a seventh-place McLaren team, both cars in Australia got points, and Williams team won 1 point in Australia, so that Aston Lee won a point in australia. Martin became the only team left this season to have no points.
Specific to the Alfa Romeo team, the problem of the anti-stall system that caused Zhou Guanyu to lose the first two stations in the starting link was solved, and it did not appear again at the Australian Grand Prix. The rear wing of the car was also adjusted at this stop, becoming smaller and thinner, which did make them more competitive in the race, and most of Zhou Guanyu's lap results were faster than the Haas team Schumacher Jr., Magnussen and Alps team Alonso, who were competing with him in this station, especially in the second counting period with fewer sharp corners, and the car was equipped with hard tires. This is also evidenced by the fact that he and Bottas have improved their final race position by 4 places compared to the starting position.
Albon pitted on the final lap
With another 14-day interval between Melbourne Park in Australia and Imola in the next stop, Bottas has revealed that in the coming rounds, Alfa Romeo's racing upgrades will continue. Then in this case, for Zhou Guanyu, who is in the "F1 debut" stage, the challenges and pressures brought by adaptation will be greater. But we can see that Zhou Guanyu showed enough competitiveness in the first three races, although due to lack of experience, he encountered problems in the first two races, although he encountered a series of chaos in the second leg, but the stable performance of the three qualifying races and the results of one 10th and two 11th places showed that he had the ability and conditions to do better. Because of this, from hoping to get points at the beginning of the season to now hoping to fight for points at every stop, Zhou Guanyu's season goals are also constantly improving. He said: "Looking back at the three races that have ended, my worst result is 11th (just 1 place away from the points). It's a very positive motivator for me and I'm going to try to earn points at every subsequent stop. ”
Leclerc hugged the team members after the race
In terms of the final result of this stop, Ferrari Team driver Leclerc, who started from pole position, finally crossed the line first and took the fastest lap, scoring 26 points in one fell swoop, 34 points ahead of the second place in the drivers' standings with 71 points, so that Ferrari Team has once again won pole position, championship and fastest lap in one sub-station since the 2010 Singapore Grand Prix. Red Bull Racing driver Perez finished runner-up and finally finished in the top six on his 10th visit to Melbourne Park Circuit. Third place was mercedes driver Russell, who made his debut on the podium for the team and finished nine points ahead of team-mate Hamilton, who finished fourth in the first three races. Four-time drivers' annual champion, Aston Martin driver Vettel, had another bad weekend after missing the first two stops of the season due to COVID-19. Crashing in the practice session, which caused him to run only one lap in qualifying, rushed out of the track shortly after the start of the race, and then crashed the nose cone of the car on the parapet, causing the safety car to withdraw from the race, while the defending champion and Red Bull driver Verstappen withdrew for the second time of the season, after the race he said indignantly: "If you want to compete with Ferrari for the championship, this is not okay." ”