Alfa Romeo team manager Beat Zehnder has been pleasantly surprised with the performances of rookie Zhou Guanyu so far this year. Zhou won four races in Formula 2 in 2021 before securing a move to the Swiss side ahead of this season, and he managed points on his debut at the Bahrain Grand Prix. He
MoreAlfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu appreciates the affectionate welcome to Formula 1 he received from the other drivers on the grid when he arrived at the start of this year. The young racer is the first-ever F1 driver from China, and he got his move after winning four races in Formula 2 last year for Virtuosi
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Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas is the latest to feel the wrath of 1997 champion Jacques Villeneuve after the recent double-header in Azerbaijan and Canada. Bottas had out-qualified Zhou Guanyu in all of the opening seven rounds of the season, out-performing him in every race bar one, when he retired from the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix
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Valtteri Bottas has no idea what happened to his pace in Baku last weekend after he was out-qualified by Zhou Guanyu for the first time this year. Zhou qualified 14th, one position ahead of the Finn after Bottas had narrowly squeezed into Q2, and the young Chinese driver was also running ahead of Bottas for
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Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas has quipped that he may just start rocking up to race weekends after practice following yet another issue in Monaco on Friday. The Finn was unable to take any real part in the opening practice session of the season in Bahrain in March, before an issue in Imola a few weeks
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Valtteri Bottas will be the only recipient of Alfa Romeo’s new upgrade introduced at this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix. The Swiss side are introducing a raft of evolutions to their C42, including a revised floor, altered wings and varying suspension from what they have run in the opening five rounds of the season. Some of
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Alfa Romeo reserve driver Robert Kubica is set to take the wheel of the C42 during the first practice session at this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix. The Pole became reserve driver for the Swiss outfit in 2020 after his season at Williams in 2019, during such time he scored a points finish once in 21
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