Forward of the upcoming season, Ferrari have confirmed that Method One’s first Chinese language driver Zhou Guanyu will return to the Scuderia, taking over the function of reserve driver.
The Chinese language driver returns to Maranello having beforehand spent 4 seasons with the Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy.
The Maranello-based outfit has confirmed that Zhou Guanyu is taken on as a reserve driver for Scuderia Ferrari HP alongside Antonio Giovinazzi who continues on this function.
For the Chinese language driver, it’s one thing of a homecoming, as he spent 4 years with the Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy from 2015 to 2018. Zhou is the primary driver from China to compete in Method 1, racing for Alfa Romeo Racing within the 2022 and 2023 seasons, staying with the workforce underneath its Kick Sauber title in 2024. He has taken half in 68 Grands Prix, scored 16 factors and twice set the race quickest lap.
Born in Shanghai on 30 Could 1999, Zhou joined the Ferrari Academy in 2015, on the finish of his time racing karts. Whereas based mostly in Maranello, he competed in Method 4 and Method 3. He and Ferrari went their separate methods on the finish of 2018, earlier than he made his Method 2 debut, a class by which he received 5 instances, with 20 podium finishes over three seasons, previous to touchdown a Method 1 drive.
Zhou will share the reserve driver function with Antonio Giovinazzi, who has labored with Ferrari since 2017. The Italian will even proceed to race within the World Endurance Championship within the quantity 51 Ferrari 499P, with which he received the 2023 Le Mans 24 Hours.
