Why Guanyu Zhou can be the best choice for Audi in 2025?

Anonymous results, progress at half mast for three years, domination of Valtteri Bottas at Sauber: the future of Guanyu Zhou is dotted in Formula 1. However, the Chinese remains an interesting profile... particularly from a point of view marketing. Enough to save your skin?

Published on 05/08/2024 à 11:32

Dorian Grangier

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Why Guanyu Zhou can be the best choice for Audi in 2025?

Will Guanyu Zhou be kicked out at Sauber - Audi? © Joao Filipe / DPPI

In the middle of this intense 2025 transfer window, where transfers are increasing among drivers as well as managers and engineers, a man seems to be in the middle of a “no man's land”: Guanyu-Zhou. The Chinese seems to be outside of any discussion, any rumor concerning him and yet, he too is one of the pieces of this great puzzle which is coming together day by day. After three years in Formula 1, the Shanghai native is at a crossroads, with a more than uncertain future in the discipline.

It must be said that his record does not really speak in his favor, for his third season with Sauber. If we put aside the abysmal performances of the Swiss team, Guanyu Zhou is not at the level of his teammate Valtteri Bottas. In qualifying, the Finn beat him soundly (13-1 for Bottas, average difference

Dorian Grangier

A young journalist nostalgic for the motorsport of yesteryear. Raised on the exploits of Sébastien Loeb and Fernando Alonso.

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Yves-Henri RANDIER

05/08/2024 at 03:50 a.m.

Could marketing reasons and commercial issues in China tip the scales for ZHOU, everything is possible in F1 but fielding a duo who have never won the slightest victory in F1 or even belonged to a Top Team would be a choice more than bold on the part of the Ingolstadt brand!

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