The retirements of the two Red Bulls in the final stages of the Bahrain Grand Prix they favored some drivers in their personal comeback towards more prestigious positions, from the fight for the podium – as in the case of Lewis Hamilton – to the entry into the points. Limited to this last milestone, the one who made the most of the misadventures of Verstappen and Sainz was Guanyu Zhou, with the Alfa Romeo driver who managed in extremis to earn 10th place in the standings, synonymous with the last placement. available to get a point. A position that therefore allowed the Chinese driver to get 1 point at the end of his first absolute GP in Formula 1, but not only. Thanks to this performance, Zhou got a curious record: again thanks to him, China was the first nation to earn the points in the debut GP of its representative in the top flight.
A fact therefore never happened in the past, but that could have happened if the current regulation for the assignment of points had been in force, which rewards the first ten classified in a race. Taking this into account, the first case was that of Pace Godiafirst nationality driver Spanish who also obtained a 10th place in the 1951 home GP. A year later, it was instead the Dutch Jan Flinterman to slightly improve the performance of his Iberian colleague, finishing 9th also his national GP. Also in the 1950s, this time at the end of the decade, it was Nicha Cabral to be the first to represent the Portugal, crossing the finish line in 10th place, curiously always in the GP hosted in his homeland. Finally, there were several cases of Peter Ryan and John Loverespectively in 1961 and 1962. The first, of citizenship Canadianobtained the 9th place in the US GP, but the best overall result of this special classification was obtained by the driver of the Rhodesia – former British colony and current Zimbabwe – in the South African GP, in 8th place.
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