Bojan Vrbnjak
The Renault team is to their young racer Guanju Zhou donated three Formula 1 tests The Shanghai-born 20-year-old was allowed to sit in a race car in Le Castellet and on Red Bull Ringu, and now on the track Circuit of Barcelona-Catalonia. In all cases, the Chinese man was sitting in a two-year-old Renault RS17 race car.
This support Renault it is not entirely selfless in nature, as the Chinese market is very important to Renault due to economic growth, and to this end, they opened the first factory in China in 2016.
In doing so, however, it is important to note that Zhou previously belonged Ferraris academy of young racers, but the Italians came to the conclusion that ha no longer want to support. Renault he immediately grabbed and brought Joe into his ranks. This season Guanju race v Formulas 2 and is the first Chinese, which is in his class under Formula 1 managed to win the podium. Zhou has been third four times so far and is in a good sixth place at the time. Head of the Renault team Cyril Abiteboul said of him: “For us, Guanju is definitely the best newcomer to Formula 2.“Further testing by Renault with the promising Chinese is not ruled out.
Ma King Hua was the first Chinese to take part in a racing weekend in 2012 Formula 1 namely at Friday’s training in Monza. Born in the Netherlands Ho Pin Tung was part of Renault’s young racing team in 2010. Tung raced in 2003 in Asia BMW formulas and convincingly won the title (10 wins from 14 races, 13 podium finishes). He was able to test the car for the prize Williams and was thus the first Chinese in a Formula 1 race car. However, since Ho Pin was not born in China, many Chinese do not see him as a true compatriot.
