Ma Qinghua

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the Chinese cross-country skier, see Ma Qinghua (cross-country skier) .

Ma Qinghua 2014

Citroën C-Elysée WTCC from Ma

Ma Qinghua (born December 25, 1987 in Shanghai ) is a Chinese automobile racing driver . He has been driving in the FIA Formula E Championship since 2016 .

Career

Ma started his motorsport career in 2005 in formula racing in the Asian Formula Renault Challenge. In addition, he took part in the Italian Formula 3000 for Team Astromega in the season finale of the championship in Europe. At the beginning of 2006 , Ma started for the Chinese A1GP team on the last race weekend. In the further course of the year Ma competed in six races in the northern European Formula Renault and finished 26th overall. He also made two guest starts in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup .

After a one-year break, Ma joined the series in 2008 for the fourth race weekend of the Spanish Formula 3 championship for the West-Tec team . With three points, Ma finished the season in 18th place in the championship. In 2009 Ma only took part in one race weekend of the British Formula 3 championship for Team West-Tec and finished tenth in the national class. In 2010 Ma started for Team China at the Superleague Formula racing weekend in Ordos . In 2011 Ma competed in touring car racing in the China Touring Car Championship (CTCC). He won the 1600cc class.

In 2012 he was accepted into the support program of the Formula 1 racing team HRT . In this role, Ma was used at four Friday training sessions at the 2012 Formula 1 World Championship . He made his debut at the Italian Grand Prix . Ma became the first Chinese to drive a Formula 1 car on a Grand Prix weekend. After HRT ceased racing at the end of the 2012 season, Ma moved to Caterham . He was supposed to take part in the GP2 series as a regular driver for the 2013 racing team , but was replaced by Alexander Rossi after the first event . At the start of the season he skipped the sprint race due to illness. In addition, he was a test driver for Formula 1 racing team Caterham .

In 2014 , Ma switched to touring cars at Citroën Total WTCC in the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC). He participated in five out of twelve events. He won a race on his first race weekend at the Moscow Raceway . In Shanghai he finished second. He finished the season in 13th place overall. In 2015 Ma got a full-time cockpit at Citroën in the World Touring Car Championship. He won one race in Vila Real and was on the podium in five other races. He finished the season in fourth place in the world championship. He was behind his three teammates José María López , Yvan Muller and Sébastien Loeb .

Ma returned to formula racing in 2016 and competed in the last four races of the FIA Formula E Championship for Team Aguri . For the FIA Formula E Championship 2016/17 , Ma stayed in Formula E. Team Aguri had given up its starting position to the Chinese racing team Techeetah , where Ma was given a cockpit. After the third race he was replaced by Esteban Gutiérrez , at the end of the season he finished 25th overall.

In 2017/18 he became a reserve driver for the NIO Formula E team in the FIA ​​Formula E championship. At the Paris E-Prix he started as a replacement for Luca Filippi and at the New York City E-Prix as a replacement for the injured Oliver Turvey . At the end of the season he finished 23rd in the drivers' championship.

Personal

Ma's father owns a go- kart track in Shanghai.

statistics

Career stations

2005: Asian Formula Renault Challenge (16th place) 2005: Italian Formula 3000 (27th place) 2006 : A1GP 2006: Northern European Formula Renault (26th place) 2008: Spanish Formula 3 (18th place) 2009 : British Formula 3 , national (10th place)

2010 : Superleague Formula 2011: CTCC , 1600cc (champion) 2012 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2013 : GP2 series (35th place) 2013 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2014 : WTCC (13th place)

2015 : WTCC (4th place) 2016 : Formula E (19th place) 2017 : Formula E (25th place) 2018 : Formula E (23rd place)

Individual results in the GP2 series

year	team	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	Points	rank
2013	Caterham Racing	MAS		BRN		ESP		MON		GBR		GER		HUN		BEL		ITA		SIN		UAE		0	35.
		21st	DNS

Individual results in the FIA ​​Formula E Championship

year	team	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	Points	rank
2015/16	Team Aguri	AT	PUT	PUN	BUE	MEX	LBH	PAR	BER	LON				0	19th
								DNF	14th	11	12
2016/17	Techeetah	HKG	MAR	BUE	MEX	MON	PAR	BER		NYC		MTR		0	25th
		DNF	15th	16
2017/18	NIO Formula E team	HKG		MAR	SAN	MEX	PUN	ROME	PAR	BER	ZUR	NYC		0	23.
									17th				13

( Legend )

Individual results in the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC)

year	team	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24	Points	rank
2014	Citroën Total WTCC	MAR		FRA		HUN		SLK		AUT		RUS		BEL		ARG		CHN		CHN		JPN		MAC		69	13.
												6th	1	11	DNF			15 *	12	2 2	5			8th	DNF
2015	Citroën Total WTCC	ARG		MAR		HUN		GER		RUS		SLK		FRA		PRT		JPN		CHN		THA		QAT		241	4th
		7 4	8th	2 3	10	4 5	9	5 5	DNF	5	5	DNF	DNF	4 4	3	6th	1	4 5	5	10 * 2	8th	3 4	2	5	2

Legend

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

• ¹ : first in qualifying, ² : second in qualifying, ...

Web links

Commons : Ma Qinghua  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Career statistics of Ma Qinghua (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Formula 1 - HRT engages young driver Ma Qing Hua" (Motorsport-Magazin.com on April 5, 2012)
2. ↑ Mario Fritzsche: "Ma with first Friday assignment at HRT". Motorsport-Total.com, September 5, 2012, accessed September 7, 2012 . 
3. ^ Pablo Elizalde: “Caterham appoints Alexander Rossi and Ma Qing Hua as F1 reserves”. autosport.com, January 3, 2013, accessed January 3, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Sven Haidinger: "Test pilot Ma: Via Caterham to the regular cockpit?" Motorsport-Total.com, March 15, 2013, accessed on March 15, 2013 .