Ma Qinghua

Ma Qinghua (simplified Chinese: 马青骅; traditional Chinese: 馬青驊) (born 25 December 1987 in Shanghai) is a Chinese racing driver currently competing in the 2019-20 Formula E season for Nio 333 Racing.

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Ma.
Ma Qinghua
Nationality Chinese
Born (1987-12-25) 25 December 1987
Shanghai, China
World Touring Car Championship career
Debut season2014
Current teamSébastien Loeb Racing
Car number30
Former teamsCitroën Total WTCC
Starts36
Wins2
Poles0
Fastest laps2
Best finish4th in 2015
Formula E career
Debut season2015–16
Current teamNIO 333 FE Team
Car number33
Former teamsTecheetah, Team Aguri
Starts14
Championships0
Wins0
Poles0
Fastest laps0
Best finish19th in 2015–16
Finished last season23rd
Previous series
2013
2011–12
2010
2009
2008
2006
2006
2005–06
2005		GP2 Series
CTCC
Superleague Formula
British F3 Championship
Spanish F3 Championship
Formula Renault 2.0 NEC
Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0
A1 Grand Prix
Italian Formula 3000
Championship titles
2011CTCC 1600cc
Citroën-Total C-Elysée WTCC 2014

Ma became the first Chinese driver to win an FIA World Championship race when he won race two of the 2014 FIA WTCC Race of Russia.[1]

Career

Ma started his professional racing career in the 2005 Asian Formula Renault challenge with Asia Racing Team for 6 races coming 16th with the highest finish of 5th. He also competed in one race in the 2005 Italian Formula 3000 championship for team Astromega and raced in the 2006 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC championship for the same team. He also raced in the inaugural A1 Grand Prix season for Team China at the A1 Grand Prix of Nations, China at the Shanghai International Circuit, coming 17th. For the next few years he raced in European Formula 3 championships like the 2008 Spanish Formula 3 Championship and 2009 British Formula 3 championship. He then competed in the 2010 Superleague Formula in the 2010 Ordos Superleague Formula round for Team China and a year later won the China Touring Car Championship's 1600c class driver's title.

Formula One

2012

Ma was added to HRT F1 driver development programme on 5 April 2012,[2] and made history as the first China-born driver to drive a Formula One car at an FIA-sanctioned event, a milestone described as "heralding an important step for Chinese motorsport".[3][4] Ma also became the first driver of Chinese nationality to take part in a Grand Prix weekend when he replaced Narain Karthikeyan in the first Friday practice session of the Italian Grand Prix.[5] He was given three more chances to drive the car in Friday sessions later that year.

2013

After HRT collapsed at the end of the 2012 season, Ma moved to Caterham, continuing the role of Friday test driver whilst racing for their GP2 Series team for the season.[6] In 2013 Chinese Grand Prix, he replaced Charles Pic to participate in the Free Practice 1 and became the first Chinese driver to drive in home Grand Prix session, but he was about 1.5 seconds off the pace to his teammate Giedo van der Garde and out of the 107% reference time to the quickest driver in Free Practice 1. Soon after the 2013 Chinese Grand Prix, Caterham team claimed that he would be replaced by Alexander Rossi for the rest of the 2013 season. The team performance looks revived after this replacement. In the 2013 Bahrain GP2 Series round, Alexander Rossi made his debut GP2 Series race and took a podium finish.

GP2

He made his debut GP2 Series race in 2013 Sepang GP2 Series round.[7] Later in the final stint, his lap time dropped to more than 2 minutes in every lap and finished only 21st in featured race, which is the last place in classified drivers. Later he was diagnosed with gastroenteritis leading to extreme dehydration by the medical team on track at Sepang and would not start the sprint race.[8]

World Touring Car Championship

Ma raced in the 2013 World Touring Car Championship for Citroën Total WTCC driving at selected rounds in the fourth car.[9] He won the second round of the Race of Russia, becoming the first Chinese driver to win an FIA World Championship race[10], and scored the fastest lap at the first round of the Race of China, Shanghai, ultimately coming 13th in the championship. He was given a full time seat for 2015 and won the second round of the Race of Portugal and finish 4th in the drivers championship. Despite this, he was not retained for 2016.

Formula E

In 2016, Ma replaced Salvador Duran in the 2015-16 Formula E season for Team Aguri. He retired from his first ePrix but finished the last 3 races, albeit out of the points. In the next season, Ma was signed by TeCheetah but was replaced by former Haas F1 driver Esteban Gutiérrez following a disappointing series of performances in the first three races of the season.[11]

Ma returned to Formula E in 2017 with the NIO Formula E Team for the Paris ePrix and again in the New York ePrix. He returned in 2019 to race for the NIO 333 FE Team alongside Oliver Turvey.[12]

Career summary
Season Series Team Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position
2005 Asian Formula Renault Challenge Shangsai FRD Team 4 0 0 0 0 35 16th
Asian Racing Team 2 0 0 0 0
Italian Formula 3000 Team Astromega 1 0 0 0 0 0 NC†
2005–06 A1 Grand Prix A1 Team China 2 0 0 0 0 6 22nd‡
2006 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC Team Astromega 6 0 0 0 0 33 26th
2008 Spanish Formula 3 Championship Team West-Tec 11 0 0 0 0 0 18th
Formula 3 Spain Copa de España 11 0 0 0 2 24 7th
2009 British Formula 3 Championship – National Class Team West-Tec 2 0 0 0 0 10 10th
2010 Superleague Formula Team China 2 0 0 0 0 19 26th‡
2011 China Touring Car Championship - 1600cc Class Beijing Hyundai 8 3 4 ? ? 116 1st
2012 Formula One HRT Formula 1 Team Test driver
2013 GP2 Series Caterham Racing 1 0 0 0 0  —  —
Formula One Caterham F1 Team Test driver
2014 World Touring Car Championship Citroën Total WTCC 10 1 0 1 2 69 13th
2015 World Touring Car Championship Citroën Total WTCC 24 1 0 1 6 241 4th
2015-16 Formula E Team Aguri 4 0 0 0 0 0 19th
2016–17 Formula E Techeetah 3 0 0 0 0 0 25th
2017 World Touring Car Championship Sébastien Loeb Racing 2 0 0 1 0 0 21st
TCR China Touring Car Championship TeamWork Motorsport 1 0 0 1 1 36 15th
TCR Asia Series 2 0 0 0 0 0 NC†
2017–18 Formula E NIO Formula E Team 2 0 0 0 0 0 23rd
2018 World Touring Car Cup Boutsen Ginion Racing 8 0 0 0 0 7 30th
World Rallycross Championship STARD 1 0 0 0 0 0 37th
2019 World Touring Car Cup Team Mulsanne 30 1 0 1 4 133 16th
2019-20 Formula E NIO 333 FE Team 5 0 0 0 0 0 24th*

† As Ma was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.
‡ Team point score.
* Season still in progress.

Complete Formula One participations

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicates fastest lap)

Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 WDC Points
2012 HRT Formula 1 Team HRT F112 Cosworth CA2012 2.4 V8 AUS MAL CHN BHR ESP MON CAN EUR GBR GER HUN BEL ITA
TD		 SIN
TD		 JPN KOR IND ABU
TD		 USA
TD		 BRA - -
2013 Caterham F1 Team Caterham CT03 Renault RS27-2013 2.4 V8 AUS MAL CHN
TD		 BHR ESP MON CAN GBR GER HUN BEL ITA SIN KOR JPN IND ABU USA BRA - -

Complete World Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 DC Points
2014 Citroën Total WTCC Citroën C-Elysée WTCC MAR
1		 MAR
2		 FRA
1		 FRA
2		 HUN
1		 HUN
2		 SVK
1		 SVK
2		 AUT
1		 AUT
2		 RUS
1
6		 RUS
2
1		 BEL
1
11		 BEL
2
Ret		 ARG
1		 ARG
2		 BEI
1
15†		 BEI
2
12		 CHN
1
2		 CHN
2
5		 JPN
1		 JPN
2		 MAC
1
8		 MAC
2
Ret		 13th 69
2015 Citroën Total WTCC Citroën C-Elysée WTCC ARG
1
7		 ARG
2
6		 MAR
1
2		 MAR
2
10		 HUN
1
4		 HUN
2
9		 GER
1
5		 GER
2
Ret		 RUS
1
5		 RUS
2
5		 SVK
1
Ret		 SVK
2
Ret		 FRA
1
4		 FRA
2
3		 POR
1
6		 POR
2
1		 JPN
1
4		 JPN
2
5		 CHN
1
10†		 CHN
2
8		 THA
1
3		 THA
2
2		 QAT
1
5		 QAT
2
2		 4th 241
2017 Sébastien Loeb Racing Citroën C-Elysée WTCC MAR
1		 MAR
2		 ITA
1		 ITA
2		 HUN
1		 HUN
2		 GER
1		 GER
2		 POR
1		 POR
2		 ARG
1		 ARG
2		 CHN
1		 CHN
2		 JPN
1		 JPN
2		 MAC
1
14		 MAC
2
12		 QAT
1		 QAT
2		 21st 0

† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

Complete Formula E results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Chassis Powertrain 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Pos Points
2015–16 Team Aguri Spark SRT01-e SRT01-e BEI PUT PDE BUE MEX LBH PAR
Ret		 BER
14		 LON
11		 LON
12		 19th 0
2016–17 Techeetah Spark SRT01-e Renault Z.E. 16 HKG
Ret		 MRK
15		 BUE
16		 MEX MCO PAR BER BER NYC NYC MTL MTL 25th 0
2017–18 NIO Formula E Team Spark SRT01-e NextEV NIO Sport 003 HKG HKG MRK SCL MEX PDE RME PAR
17		 BER ZUR NYC NYC
13		 23rd 0
2019–20 NIO 333 FE Team Spark SRT05e NIO FE-005 DIR
20		 DIR
19		 SCL
16		 MEX
Ret		 MRK
23		 SYX
 RME
 PAR
 SEO
 JAK
 BER
 NYC
 LON
 LON
 24th* 0*

* Season still in progress.

Complete World Touring Car Cup results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 DC Points
2018 Boutsen Ginion Racing Honda Civic Type R TCR MAR
1		 MAR
2		 MAR
3		 HUN
1		 HUN
2		 HUN
3		 GER
1		 GER
2		 GER
3		 NED
1		 NED
2		 NED
3		 POR
1		 POR
2		 POR
3		 SVK
1		 SVK
2		 SVK
3		 CHN
1
19		 CHN
2
17		 CHN
3
DNS		 WUH
1
11		 WUH
2
12		 WUH
3
7		 JPN
1		 JPN
2		 JPN
3		 MAC
1
Ret		 MAC
2
13		 MAC
3
11		 30th 7
2019 Team Mulsanne Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce TCR MAR
1
Ret		 MAR
2
Ret		 MAR
3
9		 HUN
1
25		 HUN
2
11		 HUN
3
19		 SVK
1
2		 SVK
2
9		 SVK
3
1		 NED
1
21		 NED
2
25		 NED
3
21		 GER
1
21		 GER
2
22		 GER
3
15		 POR
1
14		 POR
2
2		 POR
3
8		 CHN
1
2		 CHN
2
Ret		 CHN
3
16†		 JPN
1
9		 JPN
2
23		 JPN
3
Ret		 MAC
1
Ret		 MAC
2
17		 MAC
3
22		 MAL
1
18		 MAL
2
17		 MAL
3
23		 16th 133

† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

References
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  4. Mallett, Tom (12 July 2012). "Bottas tops timesheets for Williams on opening morning of young driver test at Silverstone". Autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
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  7. Racing, Theodore (2013-03-01). "Good morning everyone. We are very excited to announce @maqinghuaF1 will be driving for Caterham Racing in @GP2_Official this season". @TheodoreRacing1. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
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