F1 China's first man, the lone brave Zhou Guanyu, lost Q3 in the 2022 F1 World Championship and finished 14th.
In the qualifying round of imola station, Zhou Guanyu finished the Q1 competition with a high fourth place, and the performance in the Q2 stage was unsatisfactory, and he was eliminated and regretted to lose Q3. For the performance in this competition, Zhou Guanyu said that he was in good shape, and thought he could enter the third quarter, but the sky was not beautiful, and the heavy rain affected his play, and finally achieved the fourteenth place this season.
Zhou Guanyu, China's youngest F1 driver, born in 1999, has developed a keen interest in racing since childhood and has shown great talent. He began practicing karting at the age of 8, and two years later, Zhou Guanyu won all 8 stages of the National Karting Championship with his outstanding performance.
And Zhou Guanyu came into contact with go-karts, and he had to start with Ma Qinghua. Ma Qinghua is the first driver in China to enter the F1 race, and his resume is very impressive, he won the national karting junior championship at the age of 12, and then was tapped by the China Motor Sports Federation to participate in the 2004 Formula Asia Renault Combas Series and won the annual championship. In 2009, he competed in the British F3 Championship and finished fourth. In 2013, Ma Qinghua represented HRT in F1, and since then, he has become China's first F1 racer.
With such a teacher who has won countless championships, Zhou Guanyu's resume is also very shining. At the age of 11, he studied abroad and joined Team Strawberry Racing to continue his karting competition, winning the 2012 European Karting Championship in France in the 14-17 years old group!
In 2013, Zhou Guanyu won the All American Championship, the All England Championship and the European Championship in the 14-17 year old category, and ranked third in the World Finals; in the 2015 Italian Formula 4, Zhou Guanyu won the second place of the year.
At the 2016 Euro F3 opener, Zhou Guanyu became the first Formula racer in China to score points and reach the podium in intercontinental F3.
In 2019, Zhou Guanyu joined the Renault Athlete Academy and became the development driver of the Renault F1 team. In F2, Zhou Guanyu was on the podium five times, and in the Spanish race, Zhou Guanyu finished third in the Q1 stage and became the only Chinese driver in China to reach the F2 podium.
In 2020, Zhou Guanyu won the FIA F2 Championship in Russia; in 2021, Zhou Guanyu won the annual championship of the FIA Asian F3 Championship... Until he played for Alfa Romeo and finished 14th in qualifying at the 2022 Australian Grand Prix...
Zhou Guanyu's appearance as a Chinese driver in the world's top racing competitions is a groundbreaking feat and a milestone in Chinese motorsport!
Why? Because the Formula One World Championship, together with today's Olympic Games and World Cup football matches, is called the "world's three major sports events". Moreover, there are only 10 teams participating in each competition, and each team can only send 2 racers to participate, which shows the high specifications! And to become an official F1 racer is even more scarce than an astronaut! But Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu did it, and also let Chinese figure appear in the world's highest standard racing competition for the first time, which is worthy of the pride of all Chinese.
Zhou Guanyu once said in an interview: "I was able to enter F1, the process was very difficult, put in a lot of effort..."Qualifying into Q2, finish with points, this is my constant goal, I hope to be able to break through in the third quarter of qualifying, more extreme to promote the car." ”
For the F1 event, I believe that Zhou Guanyu will be able to complete the goals he set for himself in the next competition. Thanks also to Zhou Guanyu for showing the style of Chinese drivers in the world's top racing competitions.