“I definitely wanted to achieve a bit more,” Zhou Guanyu rates his “chaotic” 2022 F1 season
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Zhou Guanyu, the Alfa Romeo driver, had a tumultuous 2022 F1 season, and he has recently rated his campaign with the Hiwil-based team.
Zhou Guanyu had one hell of a rookie season this year, from scoring points on debut to going flying into the air, the Chinese driver experienced almost everything that the sport has to offer.
The 23-year-old after impressing in the F2 Circuit was allowed to step into the pinnacle of motor racing with Alfa Romeo. Moreover, to the surprise of many, he was immediately able to hit the ground running.
He landed his C42 in one of the points-scoring positions in the first race of the season in Bahrain and then backed it up with a P8 in Canada and a P10 in Italy.
However, unfortunately for Guanyu, there were quite a few setbacks well. He missed decent points scoring opportunities in Miami, Spain, and, Azerbaijan with technical problems with his car.
There were quite a few others as well, but nothing matches the incident that took place during the British Grand Prix. After making contact on lap 1, Guanyu went flying into the guard rails at high speed.
Zhou Guanyu has given his 2022 F1 campaign a solid 7 as a rating
Guanyu Zhou had a season to remember with Alfa Romeo for various reasons, and believes, that his campaign was worthy of getting a solid 7.
While talking about it, he added, “Seven, I think. That’s a reasonably okay score.“
“I definitely wanted to achieve a bit more on paper. It’s no lie to say that [with] a few DNF occasions we lost around eight to 10 points, which hurt a bit.”
“But then we were able to let the paddock, let the people see the ability of myself, so that’s the good side – the most important part.”
Guanyu Zhou feels that despite not scoring as many points as he would have ideally liked, he can find solace in the fact that he was able to showcase his ability as a racing driver.
Barring the DNFs, Zhou had a pretty strong season by rookies’ standards, and considering everything, it would be fascinating to see how the 2023 season would pan out for him.
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