It would be understandable for a driver to lose confidence after enduring one of the most shocking crashes in F1, but that isn’t the case for Zhou Guanyu.
Such was the prior lack of Chinese influence in motorsport that Zhou didn’t even get to raise his country’s flag the first time he stood on the podium at the beginning of his career in go-karts. “I remember my first ever go-kart race, when I won the race, there wasn’t even a Chinese flag for the podium, so I carried the flag of my racing team, which was England,” he said.
"By the following race they brought the Chinese flag and I was able to bring that to the junior single-seaters all the way up to F1. I think it’s very inspiring for young people. “We can still do it, if it’s something you have the passion for. You just have to go for it whatever it takes. “It’s inspired me a lot during my life because dreams are difficult to reach and to be arriving at the dream and doing reasonably successfully is something I dreamed of.” Zhou’s next goal is to compete at his home grand prix, with F1 planning to return to China for the first time in three years next season. The race has been provisionally included on the“To be racing at home, it’s my next dream target,” Zhou said. “Obviously it’s a dream to be in F1, but seeing other drivers at their home race, when my home race does come it’s going to be an absolutely crazy, phenomenal weekend for me. “The good thing is the Chinese Grand Prix has been signed for a few years, so if everything goes right, it’s going to be put in the calendar. “I feel reasonably confident it will be here next year, but we have to let F1 decide. If that is confirmed, then it’ll be a special weekend that I’ll remember for the rest of my life. “The crowd was amazing when I was there in 2019. I was still an F2 driver back then, so now it’s going to be crazy.”
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