Techeetah sign Zhou to development role

Techeetah have announced the signing of Ferrari Formula 1 junior Guanyu Zhou, who will join the team as the official development driver.

Zhou currently competes in the European Formula 3 Championship with Prema Racing, where 2017 saw him take five podiums en route to eighth place in the standings in his debut season.

His first season of single seaters came in Italian F4, also with Prema, in 2015 where he stormed to second place in the championship with nine podiums and three wins.

Along with his new role in Formula E, the Chinese driver will also continue in European Formula 3 after signing for an extra season with Prema and is excited for his new endeavour.

“I’m very happy to join Techeetah as a Development Driver,” said the 18-year-old. “Formula E is a really exciting space and it’s great to gain some experience within the formula and to help Techeetah with its simulator development.

“I’ll be attending the Paris E-Prix to get first-hand experience of the race day and to be able to further aid the development team when we come back to the office.”

Zhou was welcomed to the team by Mark Preston, Team Principal of Techeetah, and hopes that the young Chinese driver will learn a lot from established drivers Jean-Eric Vergne and Andre Lotterer.

“We’re delighted to welcome Zhou to Techeetah Formula E as our Development Driver,” said Mark Preston, Team Principal. “Zhou is a very talented up and coming Chinese driver that will help us with our development work.

“We hope that being around Jean-Eric, Andre and our engineers will give Zhou some invaluable experience that will help him excel in his career.”