Guanyu Zhou became the second Chinese race driver to take part in FP1 on a Grand Prix weekend when he replaced veteran Fernando Alonso in the Alpine for the one-hour Austrian Grand Prix practice session on Friday morning. The French team confirmed that Zhou ran a smooth programme, using the prototype test tyres and Mediums (C4) across his 29 laps. He ended the session in fourteenth place, a quarter second shy of Esteban Ocon in the sister car. Zhou said in the team report afterwards: “It felt special to drive FP1 today. I’m really happy with all my runs and I was able to get familiar with the tyres early on. I didn’t expect to be up to speed so quickly and the pace was definitely...
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