Zhou Guanyu ‘completely released’ from Alpine – ‘a very good decision’

周·古尼（Zhou Guanyu）透露，他与阿尔卑斯山（Alpine）完全没有关系，鉴于目前的奥斯卡·皮亚斯特（Oscar Piastri）的戏剧，中国司机说“做得很好”。

Last season, Zhou and Piastri counted themselves amongst Alpine’s junior drivers, both wanting to step up from Formula 2 to Formula 1 but neither able to do so with Alpine who had already confirmed Fernando Alonso and Estban Ocon.

Zhou called time on his relationship with Alpine in order to secure an Alfa Romeo race seat while Piastri stayed on with the Enstone team, taking up a reserve driver role with an eye on a 2023 race seat.

That, though, has not played out as expected asPiastri has found himself in the midst of a contract sagaalso involving McLaren.

随着Alpine计划在2023年重新签约Alonso，Piastri开始研究他的选择，经理Mark Webber推动了迈凯轮的席位。

有传言说他是在8月1日签署的，即阿尔卑斯山选择到期后的第二天，只是因为后者在第二个赛季宣布他将在下个赛季为他们开车。

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Piastri denied this，周很感激，他与他的前竞争对手没有同样的困惑。

“I’ve been completely released,” Zhou toldRacerof cutting ties with Alpine.

“Everything worked out very nicely because my contract was ending at the end of last year and it was up to both of us if we wanted to continue, but then there was an opportunity with Alfa.

“So the deal was definitely not to continue with Alpine, because I didn’t see anywhere I could have a seat for next year or for this year.

“Alfa and Alpine are quite big competitor brands – not just in Formula 1 but in general – so it was not easy to get out of Alpine, but I’m very happy everything worked out well because if I had another year I’d be kind of stuck, the same now with Oscar.

“I feel like there was an opportunity here so I went for it, and I think it was a very good decision.”

Zhou但是，不能保证与阿尔法·罗密欧（Alfa Romeo）同时考虑索伯（Sauber Junior Theo Pourchaire），在下个赛季的网格上占有一席之地。

The Chinese driver has yet to look at his other options.

“I haven’t talked to any teams yet,” he said, quoted by GPFans. “I’m happy and settled at Alfa Romeo.

“我觉得在那一刻……在淡季也许我担心自己的未来，但是现在我不太担心自己的未来。

“I’ve gone through the point when I needed to prove myself. I just need to keep it there with better consistency and then try to improve a bit step by step towards the end of the year.”

He also has not begun speaking with Alfa Romeo either.

“Not yet, because right now I don’t feel like I need to worry about next year,” he added. “I feel the summertime, around Spa, is when you should talk about the future.

“So far I’ve settled down and I feel in general…I’m not too worried about whether I have a seat or not next year because I feel like if I can just keep going the way I am and keep getting better race by race, I see no reason why I shouldn’t stay.”