Zhou Guanyu has struggled to match teammate Valtteri Bottas during his third season in Formula 1, which may be a reason why he doesn’t have a seat on the 2025 grid. It looks like Sauber are going to opt against retaining the Chinese driver for a fourth term in the sport, having failed to score a point throughout this season. He hasn’t been helped much by what is a pretty poor car, but Bottas has shown glimpses of qualifying and tyre whispering brilliance where Zhou has faltered. That has hurt him in the races, and taken away some of his opportunities to score points – another thing that the Sa…
