Alfa Romeo Parting Ways With Giovinazzi In Formula 1

While Formula 1 has entered the last races of the 2021 season, news about the new season continues to come. While it was announced that George Russell will move to the Mercedes-AMG Formula 1 team, Valtteri Bottas will move to Alfa Romeo instead of Kimi Raikkönnen, and Alex Albon will return to Formula 1 with Williams, a statement was also made. from Alfa Romeo came.

The Italian Formula 1 team has decided to part ways with Antonio Giovinazzi, with whom it has been racing for three seasons, for the next Formula 1 season. The team, with the financial support it has in place of Giovinazzi, has been keeping an eye on it for the past few months. With the Chinese pilot Guanyu Zhou announced that he had signed a contract. Zhou was only contracted for 2022.

“Talent or money?” The discussion was rekindled:

Guanya Zhou, who is fighting for the championship in Formula 2 this year, has been in the Renault and Alpine academy since 2019. The contract signed with Zhou is a ‘long controversy’ in Formula 1 due to his financial backing.get a driver for money‘ rekindled the theme. While many Formula 1 fans expressed that Zhou is a talented driver, some argued that he was promoted to Formula 1 purely because of money. Speaking about Zhou’s deal, Alfa Romeo team principal Frederic Vasseur used the following statements:

“This was an important decision for the company and its future. There are significant changes in the rules for 2022. We considered all the options on the table and Valtteri was perfectly clear to me. As for Valtteri, we had some options and Zhou was our first choice for hundreds of reasons”

Guanyu Zhou will be the first Chinese driver to take part in Formula 1 full-time. The last Chinese driver in Formula 1 is eight years ago, to have gone on five practice laps in Austria. It was Ma Quinghua.