The third round of Sinopec Lubricants China Touring Car Champion, Shanghai Sheshan Station closed on 9th June at Tianma Circuit. After 29 laps of fierce competition, Andy Yan, Tengyi Jiang and Xiaoele He from Chang’an Ford Racing Team obtained the first three places. In the later China Production final race, Yang Liu from GMTC Toyota won the price, Xu Chen and Zixian He from Haima Family Racing Team won the second and third places respectively.
With the Red Bull fastest lap price which is most under the spotlight, in the Super Production race, Andy Yan from Chang’an Ford Racing Team won this price with his 9th lap score of 1min08sec41. Moreover, Zixian He from Haima Family Racing Team won the Red Bull fast lap price in China Production race with the score of 1min14sec167.
Blue sea Tides Again
Chang’an Ford dominates Grand Four
In the qualify competition on Saturday, Chang’an Ford Racing Team won the pole and the first four positiosn, and in the final race they successfully undertook the first, second, third and forth places. This is a great status of “Grand Four” again played by Chang’an Ford Racing Team since the starting of 2012 racing season, and this also makes them to be the strongest opponents against with the other teams in Super Production race. Meanwhile, Chang’an Ford Racing Team achieved a big turn on Manufacturer standings, overtook VW 333 Racing Team 16 scores.
What’s more, Chang’an Ford team always possesses an advantage in Erdos, and Tengyi Jiang even had the name of “Tengyi khan”. therefore, in order to surpass the opponent VW 333 team have to do more work on the game cars and strategy. However, it’s worthy to be glad that Han Han finally made the breakthrough in this race, he completed the competition for the first time at Shanghai Sheshan Station. And it’s also coincident that the brad-new No. 6 racing car won the sixth place. In addition, Michael Song from DongFeng Yueda KIA Racing Team won the eighth place, Lifeng Lin and Chuhan Huang successfully completed the game. But Zhicong Li from Dongfeng Honda Racing Team withdrew in the first lap after a crash, and he also did not have the effective lap score in the position racing because of the car fault.
GMTC Toyota First Wins
Haima Family Keeps The Advantage
To be different from the Blue-Yellow battle in last season, China China Production race in 2013 racing season has already become a duel between “small gun” GMTC Toyota Yaris Racing Team and “small bee” Haima Family Racing Team. It even had some drizzle before the game, but it never weakened audiences’ warm. For the whole 29 laps, Yang Liu from GMTC Toyota Yaris almost leaded the whole race, only in the mid game, he was surpassed by Zixian He from Haima Family Racing Team. However, unfortunately, after the surpass Zixian He encountered the slow car of Yang Liu’s teammate Jincun Wan and they had a crash and both of them rushed out of the track. Although Zixian He successfully saved himself and returned to game, Yang Liu also returned to his first place.
Later on, with a close corporation Yang Liu and his teammate Hanbiao Zhang obtained their first champion since they joined in GMTC Toyota Yaris Racing Team. However, Haima Family Racing Team was the biggest winner, because Xu Chen continued to stand on the podium for three times and Zixian He’s third place in this game, they still possessed the absolute advantage on the total standings. And because of the added weight, Beijing Hyundai Racing Team was unable to compete at the front line, and David Zhu the winner from last game only got the forth place.
Meanwhile, Yu Xia and Chao Sun from Saida RSR Racing Team won the club champion with an excellent performance. China China Production was the stage of club team without doubt, they usually influence the development of the game’s situation. It’s reported that in order to make more club racing team can be energetic on CTCC stage in the coming future, the racing Design Partner would provide more support on the aspects of logistics, tyre reward, reporting and so on.
Sheshan :Korean and Chinese Racer’s Friendship Lives Forever
Since 2011 the successful WTCC, in June 2013 we had Korean super race again CJ SUPER RACE. Haimin Cui and Zhenyu Huang had the champions of SUPER RACE GT and S600 respectively.
And in the Korean-Chinese friendship champion at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, Chinese team dispatched POLO racing car and a young racer, and Korean team dispatched N9000 racing car and racer. After 4 laps of competition, Xi Yang from Chinese team won the game, and Dongxun Li from Korean team and Xiaofeng Wu got the second and third places respectively.
The next station of CTCC will move on to Erdos Circuit and will hold on between 6th – 7th June. It is coming soon!