Estonian driver martin rump did his championship hopes a world of good by completing a sweep of three race wins at the penbay international circuit in chinese taipei, in the third round of the formula masters china series season. Rump completes penbay hattrick with double win on sunday. The welsh squad quickly found success and took sun zheng to the 20. Speed racer drives woman into spotlight china daily. As motorsport continues to develop across the region, chinese driver sun zheng will contest the most prestigious race of his career to date in macau next month. View the profiles of people named sun racing spirit. Sun obtained a doctorate in agriculture from beijing agriculture university in 1987 and spent a year in the british countryside as a visiting fellow at britains rothamsted experimental station. Lee later spun off and was also overtaken by swiss driver rahel frey, who had earlier battled and managed to stay ahead of chinese racing talent sun zheng and korean driver kyongouk you. Fastest race laps the drivers with the biggest number of fastest. The 20 cooper tires british formula 3 international series season was the 63rd british formula three championship season. Marchy lee anchors the 83 phoenix racing asia crew, he of course founded phoenix racing asia and may be hong kongs most accomplished racing driver of alltime. Baylor college of medicine one baylor plaza abbr bldg. Chinese drivers long road to formula 1 china sports insider.
New chinese tieup for british f3, sun zheng earns cf. Putting it into a pit stop, she decided to join a racing club in beijing. Two years after she started driving a race car in 2006, zhang won at. Eric kwong of ak racing was second fastest in the amateur category, ahead of hong kong artiste aaron kwok, the audi r8 lms cup driver. The decisions of dubai racer jones and briton cameron twynham not to compete in germany mean that chinese racer sun zheng pictured cannot be caught in the championship. In 2009 he graduated to singleseaters into the australian formula ford nsw series, competing in the final three races. On sunday, sun became the first chinese driver to race in the macau formula 3 grand prix, and drew quite a lot of attention as a result, including this lengthy interview published by cnn. Alex yoong leads overall championship after opening. Meanwhile, d2 racing driver huang hsi chans consistent performance lifted himself to his third gtc victory of the season, whereas spirit zs sun zheng and sunny wong and jrms bian hao and will bamber narrowly missing the top spot in second and third. Sun zheng continues great season, ren wei takes podium in r7. On sunday, sun became the first chinese driver to race in the macau. Chinese racer sun zheng is to contest the british formula 3 international series with cf racing as the first protege of a new tieup to promote the asian countrys talent into european motorsport. National bureau of economic research working paper series, 20.
Join facebook to connect with zheng sun and others you may know. Shanghai vw 333 racing driver zheng zhen dong won the second race of the weekend at shanghai in the china touring car championships super cup 2. Their combined citations are counted only for the first article. Budweiser team absolute racings tung hopin lies fourth in the points but came under intense pressure throughout round 1 from zheng tong autos zhang da sheng, one of four fellow chinese.
Frey finished fourth behind fong, yoong and race winner couto. Sun zheng is arguably chinas best motor racing prospect right now. Malaysias melvin moh was the stx champion way back in 20 with the hometown petronas syntium team that dominated super taikyu for several seasons. A closer look at the downfall of sun zhengcai the diplomat. The chinese communist party rushes to expel former chongqing party leader sun zhengcai ahead of national day.
Chinese driver zheng enters british f3 with cf racing. Sun had been party secretary of chongqing, a city of 30 million where he was sent in 2012 to help clean up one of the countrys biggest political scandals, the fall of mr. Pages in category chinese racing drivers the following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. Cf racing has announced its entry to the 20 cooper tires british f3 international series, with chinese racer sun zheng behind the wheel of their national class dallara chinese driver zheng.
From political star to a sacrificial object in china. Sun zhengcai latest breaking news, pictures, videos, and special reports from the economic times. Sun was the 2012 china formula grand prix series champion and finished fourth overall in 2012 audi r8 lms cup. Free and independent, hkfp launched in 2015 amid rising concerns over declining press freedom in. Racing into a car culture south china morning post. He won the national class of the british formula three championship when chief rival ed jones decided against racing in the final round at the nurburgring career. Ousted chinese official is accused of plotting against. Sun zheng, beijing hyundai driver, was forced to abandon owing to mechanical problems but wan jincun, racing for team chongqing cc, chose to pursue with the same tyres whereas most of the drivers made a pitstop to change them. The chinese driver had received a late penalty after saturdays race and found himself at the back of the grid with a monumental task ahead of him. There are some much better chinese drivers than him like these two for example, but, at 21, sun has time on his side. Formula scout is home to regular news and features from the world of junior.
Chinas f1 hopeful sun zheng cuts his teeth in macau cnn. Hedge fund performance persistence over different market conditions, 2016, forthcoming, journal of financial and quantitative analysis, with ashley wang and lu zheng. Sun zheng british f3 national class champion as ed jones. For the 2017 season, spirit z racing has expanded their reach into the gt3 class, and has appointed two nissan gtr nismo gt3s to take down the competition. Just a few weeks ago, sun, a 53yearold former agriculture minister who studied farming at hertfordshires rothamstad research centre in the 1990s, was the highflying party chief of.
For the next year, goddard also competed in formula ford victoria series in australia. Sun was sent to chongqing late in 2012, when the city was shaken by the corruption, murder and torture exposed after the previous party secretary. View the profiles of professionals named zheng sun on linkedin. He won the national class of the british formula three championship when chief rival ed jones decided against. Goddard began his racing career in karting at the age of fourteen and raced in his native australia formula ford. Join facebook to connect with sun racing spirit and others you may know.
Hong kong free press is a nonprofit english language news source seeking to unite critical voices. Zheng sun receives his master degree in solid state electronics from shandong university of china and worked on deposition of p type zno thin films by r. Erdos xinan driver sun zheng, 21, started racing gokarts when he was 15 and progressed to the premier audi series via domestic singleseater and touringcar series, including audi stablemate. The big names in the fuji super tec 24 hours super gt world. Wang will start from the fourth row of the grid, with fellow chinese driver, sun zheng of team erdos xinan alongside. Americans cretu, miller, toye entered in 47th macau. After starting gokarting from the age of 14 in 2006, sun competed two years later in an adult competition in china.
Local star takes pole for beijings gt china championship. Sun zheng, who is racing in the f3 macau grand prix, hopes one day. Darryl oyoung took a dominant poletoflag victory in round 9 of the audi r8 lms cup today at the shanghai international circuit. Sun zhengcai was the party boss in china and considered to be among the next generation of chinas top leaders, but he was fired from his post in july 2017. Audi driver turns pole into goldenport china gt success. Porsche carrera cup asia promises thrills in shanghai. Local star takes pole for beijings gt china championship opener.
Motul news the drum motul teams keep their leadership. Zheng zhen dong wins in shanghai and leaps to championship. British formula three national class champions cf racing will make its f3 cup. Chinese driver adderly fong went to europe to compete in races. Chinese leadership contender sun zhengcai purged in. There are some much better chinese drivers than him like these two for. Below are the top chinese racing drivers according to the currently available data on driver database. Explore sun zhengcai profile at times of india for photos, videos and latest news of. Team erdos xinans sun zheng meanwhile had a storming start. That was a wise decision because it allowed him to take the lead of the race and cross the arrival line first. Standing in for audi gq regular alex yoong, oyoung won his debut race with the series but it was far from an easy 16 laps. Find everything in one place on sun zheng including their biography, latest news and updates, high resolution photos, high quality videos and expert analysis. Beijing ruixi racing, which entered the mazda atenza 2. It was a challenge he seemed to relish as one by one he picked off his rivals.