Zhou's new Alfa deal and how team's 2022 decline has hidden his progress
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Mark Hughes joins Edd Straw to discuss Zhou Guanyu's new deal with Alfa Romeo for 2023. The duo analyse the Chinese driver's rookie season so far, and explain why he's deserving of keeping his seat alongside Valtteri Bottas for another year. They also dig into Alfa Romeo's performance slide since the start of the season, how the team might address it, and what their future looks like with Audi on the horizon.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:10.5 | The race is on, and Alpha Romeo has announced that Joe Guan Yu will remain with the team in |
| 0:15.1 | 2023 as the latest piece of the F1 driver market slots into place. |
| 0:20.3 | But how good has his rookie season really been |
| 0:23.0 | and why has Alfa Romeo struggled to keep up its good form of the early stages of the season? |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Ed Straw and joined me to answer those questions and more is Mark Hughes. |
| 0:33.5 | Well, Mark, how are you doing? Looking forward to jumping on a plane for Singapore as we're both |
| 0:37.0 | going to be doing fairly shortly? |
| 0:38.6 | Yes, not the plane journey itself, but it's a bit long, but yeah, you get rewarded once you get there. |
| 0:44.7 | And I do like the way the time zone works there, just because we stay on European time, it somehow makes the days seem longer. I don't know. It seems to be 28 hours and every day, and I quite like that. I always quite like it when you get to the circuit. And some of the team members have misjudged the curfew. And you'll see hundreds of F1 personnel queuing up waiting for the time to tick by. So they're allowed in the paddock because that's how it works. you're not actually allowed into the paddock until a certain time. But it's great Singapore, isn't it? Right from that first race in 2008, we were there for. It's a bit of a notorious race for obvious reasons, but it just belonged in F1 immediately, didn't it? Oh, completely, yeah. It's unique, isn't it? It's just visually so stunning. |
| 1:28.9 | You know, with the nighttime lights and the neon and the, you know, the roads going over the top of the track, carrying normal traffic. |
| 1:39.0 | And it's just, yeah, it's like a, I don't know, like a modern day, a scene from Metropolis, that famous film of the 30s. It's like a, I don't know, like a modern day, it's seen from Metropolis, that famous film |
| 1:47.0 | of the 30s. |
| 1:47.7 | It's just, yeah, it's fantastic. |
| 1:50.4 | And it has a very nice laid-back sort of vibe as well. |
| 1:53.5 | Good to get a Fritz-Lang reference on the podcast. |
| 1:55.8 | I'm pleased about that. |
| 1:56.4 | Yeah, I always try. |
| 1:58.8 | Excellent. |
| 1:59.4 | Well, hopefully won't be too long to wait before. |
| 2:01.2 | Next one, well, let's get to the topic at hand. |
| 2:03.8 | When Joe got the drive originally, there were some strong critics arguing that it was solely on the base of the funding he brought. |
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