China Formula Grand Prix

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China Formula Grand Prix (CFGP) (Chinese :中国方程式大奖赛), formerly known as Asian Geely Formula International Open Competition, is an open wheel formula racing class in China.

Chinese language family of languages

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases not mutually intelligible, language varieties, forming the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Chinese is spoken by the Han majority and many minority ethnic groups in China. About 1.2 billion people speak some form of Chinese as their first language.

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The car, co-designed by Geely, China's biggest private-owned vehicle producer and racing cars production company Van Diemen, marks the first time that a Chinese domestic car producer is involved in the racing car design. [1]

Van Diemen International, Ltd. was a British race car manufacturer based in Snetterton, Norfolk, United Kingdom. The company had a reputation for high-volume production runs of its cars, the most well-known of which is its series of Formula Ford chassis, which have been at the forefront of that class of motorsport for over 20 years and led it to becoming the largest manufacturer of bespoke racing cars in the world.

CFGP uses a 1.8-litre 4G18 engine; the car weighs 490 kg and has a maximum speed of 240 km/h. The engine can produce 140 bhp at 6,300 rpm and 172 N/m of torque at 4,100 rpm. After an adjustment to the ECU, the engine can rev up to 8,500 rpm producing 200 bhp. [2]

Promotion

In 2008, reports of the AGF Sepang race appeared on Reuters's huge electronic TV screen at Times Square in New York City. [3]

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2011 season calendar

  1. 11–12 June Chengdu International Circuit, Chengdu
  2. 13-14 Aug Ordos International Circuit, Ordos
  3. 15-16 Oct Goldenport Park Circuit, Beijing
  4. 19-20 Nov Guangdong International Circuit, Zhaoqing

2012 season calendar [4]

Official Testing 1–2 May Guangdong International Circuit, Zhaoqing

Guangdong International Circuit motorsport track in China

Guangdong International Circuit is a motor sport facility located at Da Wang, Sihui, in Zhaoqing city in China, approx 45 mins by car from Guangzhou. Designed by a female Chinese designer Qiming Yao, it is the second permanent motor sport facility in Guangdong, China, after Zhuhai International Circuit. The Guangdong International Circuit completed in 2009.

Zhaoqing Prefecture-level city in Guangdong, Peoples Republic of China

Zhaoqing, formerly romanized as Shiuhing, is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province, China. During the 2010 census, its population was 3,918,467, with 1,232,462 living in the urbanized areas of Duanzhou and Gaoyao. The prefectural seat—except the Seven Star Crags—is fairly flat, but thickly forested mountains lie just outside its limits. Numerous rice paddies and aquaculture ponds are found on the outskirts of the city. Sihui and the southern districts of the prefecture are considered part of the Pearl River Delta.

  1. 19–20 May Guangdong International Circuit, Zhaoqing
  2. 28–29 July Ordos International Circuit, Ordos
  3. 18-19 Aug Goldenport Park Circuit, Beijing
  4. 17-18 Nov Chengdu International Circuit, Chengdu

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References

  1. ↑ Asian Geely Formula Aims to Breed Local Formula Drivers china.org.cn (China Daily April 25, 2006)
  2. ↑ CFGP introduction
  3. ↑ Geely racing car showed up at Times Square in New York Archived 2011-08-06 at the Wayback Machine .
  4. ↑ 2012 Race Calendar China Formula Grand Prix. Retrieved on 12 July 2012.
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