Cheng Congfu

Cheng Congfu
程 丛 夫

Nation:	People's Republic of China
DTM
First race:	Hockenheimring I 2010
Last race:	Shanghai 2010
Teams (manufacturers)
2010 Persson ( Mercedes-Benz )
statistics
Starts Victories Poles SR 11 - - -
Podiums:	-
Overall wins:	-
Points:	-

Cheng Congfu , internationally known as Congfu "Frankie" Cheng , ( Chinese  程 叢 夫  /  程 丛 夫 , Pinyin Chéng Cóngfū ; born August 15, 1984 in Beijing ) is a Chinese racing driver .

Career

Cheng began his motorsport career in karting in 1996 , where he was active until 2001. Among other things, he won the Chinese championship title in 2000 and 2001. In 2001, he was also Asian kart runner-up. In 2002 he moved into the single-seater racing and competed in the Asian Formula Renault . He immediately won the championship title in the Chinese class and came second in the Asian class. In 2003 he started in the British Formula Renault, in which he finished 30th overall. In 2004 the Chinese moved to Manor Motorsport and contested his second season in the British Formula Renault, in which he was able to improve to 22nd place in the overall standings.

Cheng in the 2007 A1GP series

After Cheng first won the runner-up in the British Formula Renault winter championship in 2005, he again competed in the British Formula Renault. He achieved his first podium finish and was eleventh overall. In 2006 the Chinese competed in his fourth season in the British Formula Renault. Although he could not win a race, at the end of the season he finished third overall thanks to eight podium finishes. In winter 2006/2007 , Cheng and Ho-Pin Tung competed for the Chinese team in the A1GP series. His best finish was fourth. He then took part in the national class of the British Formula 3 Championship and was runner-up in this classification.

In the 2007/2008 A1GP season , Cheng was the only driver for the Chinese team. With a third place as the best result, the team finished 13th overall at the end of the season. He then entered the Formula 3 Euro Series for the third race of the 2008 season . Cheng, whose best placement was ninth, remained without points in this series and finished 29th in the overall standings. He also competed in the 2008 Le Mans 24-hour race and finished third in the LMP2 classification. In the 2008/2009 A1GP season , Cheng only took part in four races. In addition, he only started in the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring in 2009 , where he finished third in the SP3T classification.

Cheng at his first DTM race on April 25, 2010 at the Hockenheimring

In the 2010 season , Cheng competed in the DTM for the Mercedes-Benz Persson Motorsport team . As the team’s third driver, alongside Jamie Green and Susie Stoddart, he drove in a 2008 DTM version of the C-Class . He took over the vehicle from Mathias Lauda , who had driven for Mücke Motorsport the previous season . Unlike his teammates, Cheng did not score any points. His best placement was three twelfth places.

Cheng did not receive a cockpit for the 2011 DTM season . His previous vehicle was occupied by Renger van der Zande .

November 13, 2011 Cheng took along with Mika Hakkinen and Lance David Arnold on a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG at the 6-hour race of Zhuhai in part, to the final round of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup . The vehicle retired in the third hour.

statistics

Career stations

1996-2001: karting 2002: Asian Formula Renault (2nd place) 2002: Chinese Formula Renault (champions) 2003: British Formula Renault (30th place)

2004: British Formula Renault (22nd place) 2005: British Formula Renault (11th place) 2006: British Formula Renault (3rd place) 2007: British Formula 3 , national class (2nd place)

2008 : Formula 3 Euro Series (29th place) 2009: A1GP 2010 : DTM

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2008	Saulnier Racing	Pescarolo 01	Pierre Ragues	Matthieu Lahaye	Rank 18
2013	Rebellion Racing	Lola B12 / 60	Andrea Belicchi	Mathias Beche	Rank 40

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2013	Rebellion Racing	Lola B12 / 60	Andrea Belicchi	Mathias Beche	Rank 5

Individual results in the DTM

season	team	Manufacturer	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	Points	rank
2010	Persson Motorsport	Mercedes	HO1	VAL	LAU	NOR	ONLY	ZAN	BRH	OSC	HO2	ADR	SHA	-	-
			13	12	12	14th	12	16	13	DNF	DNF	13	15th

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Web links

Commons : Cheng Congfu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Career statistics of Cheng Congfu (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Official: Mercedes presents driver squad 2010" (Motorsport-Total.com on April 15, 2010)
2. ^ "DTM driver 2011" ( Memento from April 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (DTM.com, accessed on April 12, 2011)
3. ↑ "Final Classification" ( Memento from November 13, 2011 on WebCite ) (lemans.org, accessed December 11, 2011; PDF; 113 kB)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Cheng is the family name here, Congfu is the first name.