On the evening of March 20, the first race of the 2022 F1 Grand Prix was officially launched in Bahrain, and unlike in the past, a Chinese face appeared in the F1 race, which was Zhou Guanyu from the Alfa Romeo team, which was also the first appearance of Chinese drivers in the F1 race. In the end, Zhou Guanyu finished 10th and made history to earn the first points of the Chinese driver in F1.
Zhou Guanyu scored points for his F1 debut
In the previous qualifying match, Zhou Guanyu successfully entered Q2 and finally started at 15th place in the main race. In the initial stages, Leclerc and Sainz from Ferrari started in first and third place, while the previous world champion Verstappen remained in second place. Bottas and Zhou Guanyu from Alpha Romeo made mistakes, ranking 14th and 18th respectively. But then the duo began to counterattack, constantly surpassing other opponents. By lap 10, Zhou Guanyu had reached 13th. On lap 12, the former champion Hamilton was overtaken by Zhou Guanyu due to his own mistakes, although he later surpassed Zhou Guanyu with DRS (adjustable tail wing), but the debut was played against the former car king, which also reflected that Zhou Guanyu had a good technology and mentality.
The turning point of the race occurred on lap 46, due to the situation of Baosteel futures in Red Bull Racing's Gasly vehicle, the race side sent a safety car, and shortly after the safety car was withdrawn, Zhou Guanyu overtook Schumacher Jr. to 12th place. Soon after Verstappen also withdrew due to technical failures in the car. Zhou Guanyu moved up another place to 11th. The most dramatic scene of the race occurred in the last lap, when I thought that Zhou Guanyu was going to miss points because of the ranking 11th, Red Bull Racing's Perez car had a brake failure and regretted withdrawing, so that Zhou Guanyu ended the race with a 10th place result, and obtained a valuable 1 point, achieving a breakthrough of zero points for Chinese drivers in the F1 main race, and the debut was able to earn points and also made Zhou Guanyu cry with joy after the race.
Zhou Guanyu could not hide his excitement
In addition to Zhou Guanyu, the final result of the race was also somewhat surprising, the always strong Red Bull Team and Mercedes Team performed poorly, the championship was won by The Ferrari Team's Leclerc, the same from Ferrari Sainz ranked second, mercedes Team's Hamilton and Russell won three or four places, and the Two Red Bull Team withdrew from the race due to vehicle failure.