Over his third season in F1 Zhou demonstrated he’s a succesful driver who might be relied on to convey his automobile residence, however too usually fails to ship over a single flying lap. Though he took the workforce’s solely factors rating of the season, there was no shock when he (like his workforce mate) was proven the door on the finish of the yr.
Zhou in all probability didn’t anticipate to face so robust a season after the primary race, the place he climbed from seventeenth to complete one place exterior the factors. The workforce was hampered by issues with its pit cease tools within the opening races and had good cause to anticipate higher days forward as soon as that was sorted.
Nevertheless Zhou compromised his possibilities of choosing up factors at this early stage with a collection of incidents: A crash in Jeddah, damaging his automobile 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 workforce mate, which left him at a right away drawback. In Zhou’s defence, Sauber’s updates normally went to his extra skilled workforce mate, although at instances 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 automobile, 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 declaring his workforce mate was hit by a rival early on. Even so Zhou had out-qualified Bottas and put a cross on Tsunoda on his approach to a wonderful 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 fingers on race day, although his spin throughout the USA Grand Prix was a noteworthy exception. That apart, Zhou’s season was extra disappointing than poor.
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