Zhou completes first test outing with Ferrari since his return to Maranello

Having joined Ferrari as a test and reserve driver for the 2025 F1 season, Zhou Guanyu has recently completed a test outing with the Scuderia on the Mugello circuit.

Having left the Sauber team at the end of the previous season, Zhou Guanyu has returned to Ferrari for the 2025 F1 season, taking on the reserve driver role for the Scuderia alongside Antonio Giovinazzi who continues in this role.

For the Chinese driver, it was something of a homecoming, as he spent four years with the Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy from 2015 to 2018. Zhou is the first driver from China to compete in Formula 1, racing for Alfa Romeo Racing in the 2022 and 2023 seasons, staying with the team under its Kick Sauber name in 2024. He has taken part in 68 Grands Prix, scored 16 points and twice set the race fastest lap.

Born in Shanghai on 30 May 1999, Zhou joined the Ferrari Academy in 2015, at the end of his time racing karts. While based in Maranello, he competed in Formula 4 and Formula 3. He and Ferrari went their separate ways at the end of 2018, before he made his Formula 2 debut, a category in which he won five times, with 20 podium finishes over three seasons, prior to landing a Formula 1 drive.

Zhou is sharing the reserve driver role with Antonio Giovinazzi, who has worked with Ferrari since 2017. The Italian is also continuing to race in the World Endurance Championship in the number 51 Ferrari 499P, with which he won the 2023 Le Mans 24 Hours.

Under the Test of Previous Cars, Zhou has recently got behind the wheel of Ferrari's two-year-old SF-23 to complete a test outing on the Scuderia's own Mugello circuit.

The Ferrari SF-23 returned to the track, a few months after it was last used by Lewis Hamilton, who prepared his switch from Mercedes to Ferrari during several test outings during winter.