Guanyu Zhou worried about the Chinese Grand Prix

There is almost nothing more beautiful for a driver than competing in his national Grand Prix. While Carlos Sainz et Fernando Alonso were able to do it in Spain, Charles Leclerc in Monaco or even Max Verstappen in the Nederlands, Guanyu-Zhou could soon join this list with the Chinese Grand Prix.

Constantly canceled since 2020 and the health crisis, the Chinese meeting is well on the list 2023 season schedule. However, the new epidemic wave and the zero Covid policy established in the country make holding the Chinese Grand Prix very difficult. Scheduled for April 16, the event on the Shanghai circuit could undergo a 3^e consecutive cancellation and Guanyu Zhou is aware of this.

« First of all I'm very excited about the idea, if it happens, recognizes the current pilot Alfa Romeo when it comes time to talk about the Chinese Grand Prix. It’s already a big step forward to see him included in next season’s calendar. I hope we can make it happen. » Certainly very happy to be able to consider the possibility of riding in front of his family, Guanyu Zhou thinks that the position of his national meeting in the calendar (first half) does not make the task easy.

« There's no doubt about it, when I saw it was scheduled for April I knew it was going to be very difficultHe says. I was hoping to see him in the second part of the year. When I saw it was April, I knew it was going to be a race against time to make sure everything was good, because with Covid restrictions in China you still have to do a quarantine so that will complicate things."

If Guanyu Zhou hopes that the Chinese Grand Prix will be maintained, Stefano Domenicali, president of the F1, had recently been pessimistic, assuring that he was “not not sure » that the race is maintained... In a few weeks we should see things a little more clearly.

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