Recently, 2013 WTCC World Touring Car Championship China Station cum CTCC China Touring Car Championship Finals news conference formally convened, the race will be held November 2-3 at the Shanghai International Circuit. This coming weekend, fans will once again have a "motorsport holiday".
Shanghai is inextricably associated with the car. 10-year F1 Shanghai station and 3-year WTCC Shanghai station has been attracted people to understand and love motorsport. There are high quality tracks and car racing culture in Shanghai, that motorsport gradually becomes a stage for Shanghai to show strength and speed to the international community. ChenYiping, the Shanghai sports bureau inspector, said,” Shanghai has a great racetrack that hosts F1 since ten years. But now the joint event of WTCC and CTCC is becoming more and more popular with the local fans. This is also an excellent platform to show our city before a worldwide audience.”
WTCC and F1 are both tied for FIA as world’s largest world-class motorsport racing event. Different with F1, the events are linked closely with the automotive industry. Participating vehicles all use production car as the prototype, which the public all can use and contact. Its authenticity makes it the world's most favorite motorsport race.
WTCC promoter Marcello Lotti concluded: “The Chinese event is one of the most important in the WTCC season, because it opens a window on one of the fastest growing economies in the world for our manufacturers and partners. Having a joint event with CTCC is the best way to promote both championships with the motorsport community.”
Meanwhile, Wan Heping, deputy president of FASC, China’s National Sporting Authority pointed out that:”FASC is proud to welcome WTCC for the third time. This joint WTCC-CTCC event has become one of the most popular motorsport race meetings in China over the past two years. And the cooperation between these two professional championships is acting as a driving force to attract car makers and sponsors to join touring car racing.”
After the press conference,at the Bund, one of Shanghai’s historical areas, on the waterfront of the Huangpu river, WTCC and CTCC drivers mingled together after today’s press conference in Shanghai to have a try at T’ai Chi ch’uan, China’s traditional martial art.
During the game, the worldwide media organizations Eurosport (European Sports Media Group) will provide television broadcast. As events taken place, Jiading District Government from medical, fire, police and other related aspects of transport plans ready to spare, gave the game full support.
This weekend, fans not only to see world-class racing, play together well GuoZiHao car brand CTCC China Touring Car Championship.
As Annual A-class sporting event which confirmed by General Administration of Sport, CTCC is the most popular motorsport game. This weekend, there will be more than 40 drivers. After almost 6-month campaign, the finals of 2013 CTCC will also be held at the weekend. The very famous local drivers,such as Ma Qinghua, Zhen Zhuowei, Jiang Yiteng,ect, will compete for top honors of the Chinese drivers.