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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Daniel Moxon

F1 rookie Zhou Guanyu set to keep Alfa Romeo seat after "ticking all the boxes"

Alfa Romeo chief Frederic Vasseur has heaped praise upon Formula 1 rookie Zhou Guanyu and hinted at a contract extension for the Chinese racer.

Zhou has scored five points so far in 2022, compared to the 46 earned by his much more experienced team-mate Valtteri Bottas. But that does not tell the full story, as the Chinese racer's maiden season has been marred by no small amount of misfortune.

After scoring his first point on debut, he finished 11th in back-to-back races before a series of DNFs, mostly due to mechanical issues rather than anything he was doing wrong. And the most-high-profile incident was at Silverstone, where Zhou's car was flipped upside down in a huge crash.

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