Kick Sauber scores its first points in the 2024 season

Zhou finished eighth and scored four points for the only team he didn’t have until Qatar

The team Kick Sauber found reward in the last moments of the year by adding his first four points of the 2024 season during the celebration of the Qatar Grand Prix.

The Chinese pilot Guanyu Zhou He found the winning ticket on Sunday and for the first time this year he managed to get his team its first units and thereby give the team a few million dollars.

Zhou benefited from the bad race and the incidents suffered by drivers like Checo Pérez, Esteban Ocon, Lewis Hamilton, Yuki Tsunoda and Lando Norris to get into the points zone and cross the finish line in eighth position.

For its part, Valtteri Bottas He could not emulate what his teammate did and finished the race in eleventh position.

The team Sauber It was the only one that had not scored points throughout the year and sank to last place in the world constructors’ championship. While Williams adds 17 points and is in penultimate place.

Kick Sauber had a slight improvement during this weekend, as it was the first time this season that both drivers advanced to Q2 in classification.

Zhou, who was voted “Driver of the Day,” expressed his feelings about his first points with the team and noted that in the last two races he has felt more comfortable.

“It’s a relief. I wouldn’t say ‘happy’ is the word, relief is the word. From vegas I have felt very comfortable. The championship was very mentally demanding for me and Valtteri. “I missed real races, like today, with wheel-to-wheel fights,” declared the Chinese driver at the end of the race.

For its part, Valtteri Bottasconsidered it “ironic” that the team has an improvement in the penultimate race of the season.

“It’s very late in the season and we’ve been waiting for these improvements for a long, long time. So it’s a bit ironic, but it is what it is. But at least now we can try to do something and we just have to make the most of it.” “commented Bottas, who will not continue with the team for the 2025 season.