As you know, Nango said that there is not much coverage of car racing, but recently because of the appearance of a young driver in his early 20s, we have become interested in F1 and racing circles.
The focus of this fan and the media is Zhou Guanyu. "The closest Chinese to F1", "the most handsome Chinese driver", "Chinese driver NO.1" and so on are all labels on Zhou Guanyu's body.
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Fans who know racing know that it's harder to become an F1 driver than to get to the top. Outstanding in terms of technology, physical fitness, money and even appearance, in order to get the key to enter the F1 hall. As for F1's willingness to open the door to you, it ultimately depends on the power of capital and personal background and network. In a word, it is not as simple as a good car drive.
So where is this Zhou student who is only one step away from F1? What about his story?
"Wang Sicong" in the racing circle? Dad has 23 companies under his name, with a registered capital of more than 500 million
Searching for "Zhou Guanyu" in Baidu Encyclopedia, there are only a few hundred words of description - Zhou Guanyu, born in 1999, a Native of Shanghai, a Chinese racing athlete, and a record of achievements. In fact, his backstory is more interesting to us.
Daddy is very good, do you have a temper? “
"This is the age of a spelling daddy" may not sound good to say, but it is the reality of the moment. Being young is like playing racing or Formula 1 on the tip of an ivory tower, and it is impossible to do without a rich family foundation. Zhou Guanyu's family is such a "rich family". The network shows that his father Zhou Wenfang is the owner of a well-known business.
According to the "Tianyan Check", there are as many as 23 companies under the name of Mr. Zhou Wenfang, and the registered capital alone is about 580 million, which is really a low-key invisible rich man! It was also revealed that one of Zhou Guanyu's auto sales companies had an operating income of 3.2 billion yuan in 2017 alone. I would like to say that the money racing is not good, and playing rockets is enough.
Zhou Guanyu Weibo
Went to the UK for further study and started a racing life
In order to better learn to race, Zhou Guanyu began to study in foreign countries at a young age of 12, and his parents sent him to the United Kingdom to study at the age of 12 and joined the local karting school.
Racing talent was demonstrated from an early age
Although he was often ostracized at the beginning because of his driving skills and Asian appearance, with his own talent and hard work, Zhou Guanyu stood out from a group of blonde teenagers and slowly broke through the European karting world and gained the respect he deserved. During his three years of driving a kart in Europe, he won the All-American Championship, the All England Championship and the European Championship in the 14-17 years old category.
In the past few years, from karting to F4 to F3, Zhou Guanyu's progress is obvious to all, and in the 2017 season, Zhou Guanyu won a total of 55 points in the F3 arena and took the podium five times. That achievement has surpassed that of his teammate Mike Schumacher, the son of team-mate Mike Schumacher, who now plays for Haas.
Can I enter the F1 arena?
To enter the halls of F1, there is a prerequisite, just pass the super driver's license level. Drivers need to earn 40 Super Driver's License Points in F2 or F3 races. In order to ensure that he can get a super driver's license this year, Zhou Guanyu also participated in the Asian F3 Championship and scored 18 super driver's license points as the driver's championship.
With F1 famous rider Cardo
At the moment, he is really only one step away from a super driver's license, and this distance can certainly be achieved this year. Therefore, from a practical level, Zhou Guanyu's super driver's license has arrived.
Unlike F1, the performance of everyone's car in F2 is similar, such a race is more of a test of the driver's skills, as well as the psychological quality of the front hard steel, I believe that these two qualities Zhou Guanyu is not inferior to other drivers.
So where is the difference between zhou students and students at present? In addition to technology and mentality, money is also very important in the F1 circle, although the Zhou family is already a rich family in China, but compared to the extremely expensive F1 arena, it is still a drop in the bucket.
For a new driver, there are no more than two ways to enter F1, one is to bring funds into the team, to put it in layman's terms, it is to pay the "borrowing fee", which will be more small and medium-sized teams with high financial pressure. If within a few years your performance is not satisfactory or the money or the big business behind it is shaken, then you are likely to say goodbye to the sport.
Zhou Guanyu and idol Alonso
The other is that the results are very good and are favored by the big teams, but even the drivers who are dug out by the big teams still have a lot of luck in trying to sit in the cockpit of F1. In short, what we most hope is that Zhou Guanyu can enter a powerful team as soon as possible and achieve the breakthrough of F1 zero as soon as possible.