Alpine F1 team leader Marcin Budkowski said the Alpine F1 team would fully support Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu if he had the opportunity to join Alfa Romeo F1.
With few places left for F1 drivers in the 2022 season, Romeo's second driver at F1 is Zhou Guanyu's only chance. Romeo, after signing Valtelli Bottas, needed a young driver with a lower annual salary as a match. Zhou Guanyu is an important candidate for the F1 driver market, but Zhou Guanyu is Alpine's youth driver, belonging to the Renault racing camp, and if the Chinese driver joins Romeo, he must get Alpine's consent.
Commenting on the rumors that Alpine would rather the youth drivers lose their F1 entry and forcibly leave these young drivers in Alpine, Budkovsky said: "There are indeed some rumors, for which we do not want to explain, we are evaluating our youth drivers. ”
"If we can develop F1 drivers, our training program will undoubtedly be successful. If these drivers have the opportunity to get into F1, we have no reason to stand in the way. It's a no-brainer for the driver's career and it's not good for us, it's a lose-lose situation. ”
'We'll be very deliberate, of course, it also weakens our reserve drivers.
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