Following missing the best chance to enter Q3 in the Q2 stage of Qualifying on Friday night due to "natural and man-made disasters", Alfa Romeo's Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu was once again caught by bad luck in the Sprint race at this season's F1 Grand Prix Imola on Saturday night, and soon after the departure, he suffered a car accident and withdrew early.
Zhou Guanyu ushered in the first sprint of his F1 career with the 14th place ranking of the previous day's qualifying. Unexpectedly, he was eager to try it, and soon after he started the train, he was hit by a flying disaster.
At that time, the right front wheel of The Car of Alfatoli, who was trying to overtake on the inside, collided with the left rear wheel of Zhou Guanyu's car. Zhou Guanyu's car was damaged by tires and tail wings, and he had no choice but to withdraw after losing control and crashing into the wall, and the race also dispatched a safety car.
Fortunately, Zhou Guanyu himself was not injured, and the damage to the car was not too serious. It was also the first time since he joined F1 that he had suffered an accident or withdrawal in a race weekend.
Although there have been collisions and accidents, according to the determination that the race has already been made, this is a "track accident" and will not be investigated. This also means that in the regular tournament at 9 pm on Sunday, Zhou Guanyu will have to start in the last place.
Of course, for Zhou Guanyu, it is not that he has not experienced the situation of the last "start" of the main game.
The first and second stops of his F1 career, both of which had to start at the end of the team after starting out, had to start chasing forward from the last place, but still got good results in the tenth and eleventh places respectively. Only this time at the Enzo Dino Ferrari circuit, he will start the race from the end for the first time in the true sense of the word.
As the driver with the most overtaking so far this season, Zhou Guanyu is still very hopeful of achieving a better result at Imola than the starting place of the main race. In particular, Alfa Romeo's car is doing well here, and he himself has a good performance when he is running normally on this track.
Zhou Guanyu's teammate Bottas, who started in the 8th place in the sprint race, finally finished 7th, not only gained 2 points in the sprint, but also started in the 7th position in the main race.
Despite being overtaken by Ferrari driver Leclerc, who was second in the starting line, Deutsche Verstappen, the first-placed Red Bull driver in qualifying, used drS to complete the counter-overtaking on the penultimate lap and finally crossed the finish line.
Verstappen started first in Sunday's regular race, with second and third place being Leclerc, who finished runner-up and third in the sprint, and another Red Bull driver, Perez.