Over his third season in F1 Zhou demonstrated he’s a succesful driver who will be relied on to deliver his automotive dwelling, however too typically fails to ship over a single flying lap. Though he took the staff’s solely factors rating of the season, there was no shock when he (like his staff mate) was proven the door on the finish of the yr.
Zhou in all probability didn’t count on to face so powerful a season after the primary race, the place he climbed from seventeenth to complete one place outdoors the factors. The staff was hampered by issues with its pit cease tools within the opening races and had good motive to count on higher days forward as soon as that was sorted.
Nonetheless Zhou compromised his probabilities of choosing up factors at this early stage with a collection of incidents: A crash in Jeddah, damaging his automotive in qualifying at Melbourne and a mistake on his flying lap in China. Canada was a low level, Zhou crashing twice through the build-up to qualifying.
He normally began races behind his staff mate, which left him at a direct drawback. In Zhou’s defence, Sauber’s updates normally went to his extra skilled staff mate, although at occasions this didn’t appear to assist Valtteri Bottas all that a lot.
Zhou Guanyu
| Greatest | Worst | |
|---|---|---|
| GP begin | 12 | 20 (x6) |
| GP end | 8 | 20 |
| Factors | 4 | |
This was significantly true through the center a part of the season, at which level Sauber virtually invariably had the slowest automotive, having been out-developed by their rivals. When that improved later within the yr, Zhou produced a few noteworthy performances.
His points-scoring run in Qatar was the obvious, although it bears stating his staff mate was hit by a rival early on. Even so Zhou had out-qualified Bottas and put a move on Tsunoda on his option to a superb eighth place. Zhou’s less-heralded and unrewarded drive in Las Vegas was one other late spotlight, as he handed Franco Colapinto on the ultimate lap.
He normally proved a secure pair of arms on race day, although his spin throughout the US Grand Prix was a noteworthy exception. That apart, Zhou’s season was extra disappointing than poor.
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