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🇨🇳 Guanyu Zhou

#24
Racing driver from China. Formula 1, Sauber.
Driver facts
Full name
Guanyu Zhou
Born
30 May 1999(b. 1999)
Nationality
China
Current team
Sauber
Series
Formula 1
Status
Retired
Career wins
0
Career podiums
0
Career starts
68
Career DNFs
10
Racer Rating
6,147
Guanyu Zhou
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
6,147
Rank 137 of 38,983 indexed, +0 this season
FIA Categorisation
Platinum
FIA driver categorisation
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Guanyu Zhou is a racing driver from China who last raced in Formula 1 for Sauber. Zhou has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 68 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 6,147 ranks Zhou 137th of 38,983 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications
2024 form
Last 20 races, finish position (higher is better)
P1P5P10P20DNFCHNUSAITAMONCANESPAUTGBRHUNBELNEDITAAZESINUSAMEXBRAUSAQATUAE
Recent results
Tap a row for the full race
2024-12-08Yas Marina CircuitFormula 1P13+33
2024-12-01Losail International CircuitFormula 1P8+118
2024-11-23Las Vegas Strip Street CircuitFormula 1P13+41
2024-11-03Autódromo José Carlos PaceFormula 1P15+8
2024-10-27Autódromo Hermanos RodríguezFormula 1P15+10
Career-best drives
Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition
Rating wonRaceSeriesFinish
+118Losail International Circuit 2024Formula 1P8
+104Circuit Gilles Villeneuve 2022Formula 1P8
+82Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit 2023Formula 1P9
+82Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya 2023Formula 1P9
+80Losail International Circuit 2023Formula 1P9
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
2024▸Formula 1Sauber2400204P19−2536,147
2023▸Formula 1Alfa Romeo2200306P16+186,401
2022▸Formula 1Alfa Romeo2200506P16+5,0336,383
Recent coverage
No recent coverage found.
Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Zhou finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇬🇧 Lando NorrisFIA Platinum8,77568105815%
🇬🇧 George RussellFIA Platinum8,761685637%
🇳🇱 Max VerstappenFIA Platinum8,724683654%
🇲🇨 Charles LeclercFIA Platinum8,66568105815%
🇬🇧 Lewis HamiltonFIA Platinum8,6386876110%
🇫🇷 Pierre GaslyFIA Platinum7,01868204829%
🇯🇵 Yuki TsunodaFIA Platinum6,81768274140%
🇲🇽 Sergio PérezFIA Platinum6,80868135519%
🇪🇸 Fernando AlonsoFIA Platinum6,64868135519%
🇨🇦 Lance StrollFIA Platinum5,99268244435%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
On the leaderboard
Global rank, 38,983 drivers indexed
#DriverSeriesRating
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130🇿🇦 Tony MaggsFormula 16,160
131🇩🇪 Maximilian GüntherFormula E6,159
132🇬🇧 Tom PryceFormula 16,159
133🇫🇮 Keke RosbergFormula 16,156
134🇺🇸 Shane van GisbergenNASCAR Cup Series6,155
135🇯🇵 Tomoki NojiriSuper GT6,152
136🇺🇸 Bubba WallaceNASCAR Cup Series6,150
137🇨🇳 Guanyu ZhouFormula 16,147
138🇬🇧 Allan McNishWEC6,143
139🇳🇿 Bruce McLarenFormula 16,143
140🇫🇷 Kevin EstreIMSA WeatherTech6,141
141🇺🇸 Aric AlmirolaNASCAR Xfinity6,139
142🇨🇭 Jo SiffertFormula 16,136
143🇳🇿 Matthew PayneSupercars Championship6,136
144🇬🇧 Anthony DavidsonWEC6,135
145🇬🇧 Graham HillFormula 16,130
146🇮🇹 Luigi MussoFormula 16,124
147🇬🇧 Peter CollinsFormula 16,124
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Synthesized from 2 sources, updated 654h ago

Guanyu Zhou is a professional sportscar and endurance racing driver competing at the elite international level; his Racer Rating of 7,056 places him among established professionals who win in the strongest fields. He holds FIA Platinum status, the top grade in GT and endurance racing, though his competitive record on the database is dominated by his three seasons in Formula 1 from 2022 to 2024. Across 68 starts in the sport's premier championship for Sauber and Alfa Romeo, Zhou finished without a win or podium, averaging 13th place and consistently outpaced by the world's strongest single-seater drivers. His head-to-head record against regular rivals illustrates the disparity: he finished ahead of Max Verstappen, a four-time Formula 1 champion and generational talent, once in 56 shared races; ahead of George Russell twice in 55 races; and ahead of Lando Norris, now 2025 Formula 1 champion, eight times in 56 meetings.[1]

The scale of the gap is consistent across his career. Against Lewis Hamilton, a seven-time Formula 1 champion, Zhou finished ahead three times in 54 races. Against Charles Leclerc and Oscar Piastri, both elite professionals with major junior titles and multiple podiums in the top flight, he secured only two and four victories respectively in shared races. Pierre Gasly, a much stronger driver than Zhou by rating and the only rival to finish ahead of him more often than behind, still beat him fourteen times to thirty-eight, underlining that even among the lower end of Formula 1's competitive scale Zhou sat at the back. His average finishing position of 13th and complete absence of podium finishes in Formula 1 reflect a driver unable to extract the performance required to compete with the established front-runners; the rating accurately reflects a professional who competed at the top level but without the pace to threaten results there.[2]

Zhou remains connected to Formula 1 as a reserve driver for Cadillac, now confirmed for testing and competition in the 2026 season according to recent announcements.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications[2] Wikipedia
“It’s a weekend to leave behind,” says Zhou on a frustrating opening round[1]
fiaformula2.com
17 Jul 2026
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Cadillac confirm Guanyu Zhou’s first 2026 Formula 1 test after reserve driver wait[2]
TheJudge13
11 May 2026
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Cadillac gives Zhou another chance; he will debut in Barcelona[3]
GPblog
10 May 2026
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