A few years ago, we talked about the topic of "Cheng Pinji" and shared with you the helmet that Zhou Guanyu personally participated in the design and wrote "Xiao Zhou loves to drink milk tea". Zhou Guanyu, who has just passed his natal year, is about to usher in a bigger challenge in the new year - in 2024, he will fight at home in his birthplace of Shanghai to strive for better results in F1 races.
Raikkonen retired, and Zhou Guanyu appeared on the stage, unfortunately not becoming a teammate
In 2019, Zhou Guanyu may still be unsure about whether he can participate in F1. When the 1,000th F1 Grand Prix was held in Shanghai, China, Zhou Guanyu, who was the development driver of the F1 Renault team at that time, drove the Renault car in front of Chinese fans in the carnival event roadshow, which was the first time in history that Chinese drove an F1 car on the streets of downtown China.
In September 2021, Finnish iceman Raikkonen announced his retirement from Alfa Romeo Racing, deciding to leave the F1 scene where he had competed for 20 years. In November of the same year, Alfa Romeo signed a contract with Zhou Guanyu, and officially announced that Zhou Guanyu would represent the team in the 2022 F1 season. With Zhou Guanyu's successful F1 debut in 2022, he officially became the first Chinese driver to compete in the F1 race. Raikkonen, who belongs to the same team, retired, and then Zhou Guanyu appeared on the stage, which seems to hint at the pace of the times when the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, but it is also a little regrettable that the two passed by and could not become teammates.
Originating from ZEEKR, the two top drivers are in the same frame as China Tram
In 2023, Zhou Guanyu renewed his contract with the team, confirming that he will usher in his third season in F1, and the 2024 F1 Chinese Grand Prix will also return to Shanghai after five years.
There is also good news this year, in addition to Zhou Guanyu driving the Alfa Romeo car like his predecessor Raikkonen, both of them are also associated with Zeekkton - Raikkonen has come to China to become a performance consultant of Zeekrypton, and participated in the development and tuning of Zeekkr 001 FR, Raikkonen, who has a super high popularity among Chinese fans, is now China's top pure electric hunting supercar Zeekrypton 001 fr, and even developed an exclusive Raikkonen driving mode, which is addictive.
And now ZEEKR has released a new poster, which has been discovered by sharp-eyed netizens, and the new ZEEKR 001 chief control officer is Zhou Guanyu himself. ZEEKR 001, with the support of "the best driver on the planet", and now with the help of China's current F1 drivers, it is really surprising.
ZEEKR and Zhou Guanyu will shine on the world stage and create new history
This is not only a brilliant marketing, which makes Raikkonen and Zhou Guanyu have a wonderful connection with Zeekr outside the F1 field, but also makes China's current high-performance new energy products show in front of global audiences. In fact, the environment in which ZEEKR is located is similar to Zhou Guanyu, and if it wants to shake the status of traditional industry bigwigs such as European car companies and drivers, and rewrite the pattern, it is necessary to redouble its efforts and achieve greater results in order to be recognized by the world.
ZEEKR has delivered more than 200,000 new cars in total, setting a new record for the fastest new forces, maintaining the world's only record of zero spontaneous combustion of new energy, and ZEEKR 001 FR is the world's first mass production with two-way satellite communication technology, with an acceleration of 2 per 100 kilometers02 seconds can be called the strongest on the surface, ZEEKR 007 four-wheel drive performance version of the world's fastest acceleration of the mid-level sedan, ZEEKR 009 debuted in Las Vegas, the first batch of ZEEKR 001 and ZEEKR X have arrived in the Middle East, which makes ZEEKR one of the representatives of China's electric vehicle breakers.
Zhou Guanyu is a top racing driver, and he is also a gentleman and artist, who loves trends, creatively designs his own helmets, and wears fashion blockbusters with personality, which can always make people shine. Zhou Guanyu is not only breaking the tradition and breaking through the boundaries of Chinese racing, but also letting more people see the spiritual outlook of China's new generation of racing drivers, leading more young drivers to chase their passions. This also reminds me of ZEEKR, which has both a sense of maturity in technical accumulation and a sense of youth rushing to the forefront of the trend, using his own courage to break the shackles and lead Chinese cars to a bigger stage.
Finally, let's make a bold guess, will Raikkonen appear as an easter egg guest at the new ZEEKR 001 press conference? Under the fate of joining hands with Extreme Krypton, does Zhou Guanyu have a chance to fight with his predecessors?