Zhou has been 'raising his game' in F1 this year and is now able to match team-mate Bottas, according to Alfa Romeo.
Alfa Romeo has praised a more confident Zhou Guanyu for"raising his game" in his second Formula 1 season, as he is now matching his experienced team-mate Valtteri Bottas.After an uneven debut season that hinted at Zhou's underlying promise, the Chinese driver was retained for a second year and immediately got off to a stronger start.
While he was behind Bottas in Bahrain, Zhou qualified and finished ahead of the Finn in a difficult race forWhen both drivers struggled with unexpected balance issues in Melbourne, Zhou outqualified Bottas again and then went on to take his first points of the campaign with a ninth-place finish, the second points haul for the Sauber-run squad after Bottas' eighth place in Bahrain.
Alfa Romeo's head of trackside engineering Xevi Pujolar has praised Zhou for the steps he is making in his sophomore campaign."That's good for us. Qualifying [in Australia] was not ideal, but in the last two qualifying sessions they are close to Q3, both of them and that's good for the team." From the start of winter testing, Zhou made a markedly more assured impression and in Melbourne he said that"it's good to be feeling confident for the first race of the year which I wasn't last year this time."Pujolar thinks that this increased self-confidence is the main factor behind the 23-year-old's vast improvement.
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