On April 19, the qualifying session for the 2024 F1 Chinese Grand Prix sprint race ended, with McLaren Racing Norris taking pole position in the sprint race, with Mercedes-Benz Hamilton and Aston Martin Alonso in second and third place respectively. Sauber's Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu was 10th.
On April 19, Zhou Guanyu was in the game.
On the same day, the F1 Chinese Grand Prix sprint qualifying session was held in Shanghai, and Sauber Racing Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu ranked tenth.
Before the race, Zhou Guanyu said that the biggest challenge for the first time at the Shanghai International Circuit was to adapt to the time. In this morning's free practice, China Zhou showed good form and ranked 11th. In the afternoon sprint qualifying, Zhou Guanyu always implemented the strategy of winning steadily, on the slightly slippery track, he did not make any mistakes, and in the first two stages, he "passed the line" and successfully entered the third stage of the sprint qualifying, which surprised many fans in the rain watching the game in the stands.
In the third qualifying session, which was used to determine the starting order of the sprint race, accidents occurred frequently as the rain intensified. Ferrari's Leclerc skidded first and hit the wall, Red Bull's Verstappen then sprinted off the track, and Zhou Guanyu was also deemed invalid for driving off the track boundary. In the end, Zhou Guanyu finished 10th in the sprint qualifying, with Norris, Hamilton and Alonso finishing in the top three in the sprint qualifying.
Photo by China News Service reporter Yin Liqin