{"id":17538,"date":"2021-06-28T19:49:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T14:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=117564"},"modified":"2021-06-28T19:49:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T14:19:30","slug":"guanyu-zhou-to-make-formula-1-practice-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/formula-1\/guanyu-zhou-to-make-formula-1-practice-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Guanyu Zhou to make Formula 1 practice debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s Zhou Guanyu will take part in his first-ever <span class=\"text\" data-v-1396b067=\"\">Formula One <\/span>practice session at the Austrian Grand Prix next weekend, the Alpine F1 team announced.<\/p>\n<div data-v-74bb6364=\"\">\n<p class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p\" data-v-343228ab=\"\" data-v-74bb6364=\"\">The Alpine F1 team announced in a press release, \u201cZhou, currently Test Driver for the team and Alpine Academy member since 2019, will be handed his F1 weekend debut for the first practice session of the event, taking Fernando Alonso\u2019s A521 for the duration of the one-hour practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-v-343228ab=\"\" data-v-74bb6364=\"\"><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Zhou who is the current leader in Formula 2 expressed his delight at the opportunity.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-v-74bb6364=\"\">\n<p class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p\" data-v-343228ab=\"\" data-v-74bb6364=\"\">\u201cDriving in FP1 at a Formula 1 Grand Prix weekend is like a dream coming true and another step closer to my ultimate goal of becoming a Formula 1 driver,\u201d the 22-year-old Shanghai native said via Alpine.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zh\" dir=\"ltr\">\u3010Announcement\u3011<br \/>I\u2019ll be driving FP1 in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AustrianGP?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AustrianGP<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlpineF1Team?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AlpineF1Team<\/a> !<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the opportunity! Can\u2019t wait, going to be a special day, \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf3 proud moment. See you all on track \u270c\ud83c\udffc <\/p>\n<p>\u3010\u5b98\u5ba3\u3011\u6211\u5c06\u4ee3\u8868 AlpineF1\u8f66\u961f <br \/>\u53c2\u52a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#F1<\/a> \u5965\u5730\u5229\u5927\u5956\u8d5b \u7b2c\u4e00\u8282\u7ec3\u4e60\u8d5b\uff01 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vG6qeAHiXo\">pic.twitter.com\/vG6qeAHiXo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u5468\u51a0\u5b87 | Zhou Guanyu \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf3 (@ZhouGuanyu24) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZhouGuanyu24\/status\/1409447267212443649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-v-343228ab=\"\" data-v-74bb6364=\"\">The Shanghai-born Zhou has been an Alpine Academy member and Test Driver for the team since 2019. The 22-year-old will take Fernando Alonso\u2019s A521 for the duration of the one-hour practice for this weekend\u2019s Austrian Grand Prix. Zhou will be the first Chinese driver since Ma Qinghua drove in the practice session of the 2013 Shanghai Grand Prix. Ma, now 33, never made it in F1 but has been a long-time TOCA Touring Car Championship.<\/p>\n<p data-v-343228ab=\"\" data-v-74bb6364=\"\">Zhou\u2019s will race next at Formula 2 race in the UK Grand Prix at Silverstone on July 17 and 18.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guanyu Zhou will participate in his first-ever Formula 1 practice session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":38282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1955,1954,943,1446,209,1893],"class_list":["post-17538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","tag-alpine","tag-austrian-grand-prix","tag-f1","tag-fernando-alonso","tag-formula-one","tag-grand-prix"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}