Shanghai Racing Action

Last weekend, a few friends & I took part in the grand opening of a "new" used car sales website for Shanghai, www.zhaocar.com. The grand opening was held at the TianMa Racetrack in Shanghai, where we were able to race a few rally cars in a contest to win a mobile phone.

From Shanghai Zhaocar Races

The Yellow Beastie is one of the V8 Supercars we drove. Greg got a high of 1min35sec on the track during practice, while Bill ended up with a 1min40sec high practice time.

Then this happened:

From Shanghai Zhaocar Races

From Shanghai Zhaocar Races

What little time we had was cut into by a slight fire. Fortunately, no one got hurt, but unfortunately, that seriously hampered my practice time.

Final results:

Winner: 1.26
Greg got 2nd (technically 3rd but the owner of zhaocar, Jerome Vaughan's track time didn't count since it was HIS contest)
Greg: 1.31
Me: 1.42 (yes, absolutely abysmal, I know.)

It was well worth the trip despite my poor performance, and to this day, Greg won't let me live down all the sledging.

Shanghai Zhaocar Races