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Ma Qinghua
Ma at the2014 FIA WTCC Race of Belgium.
Nationality	Chinese
Born	(1987-12-25)25 December 1987 (age 37) Shanghai, China
World Touring Car Championship career
Debut season	2014
Current team	Sébastien Loeb Racing
Car number	30
Former teams	Citroën Total WTCC
Starts	36
Wins	2
Poles	0
Fastest laps	2
Best finish	4th in2015
Formula E career
Debut season	2015–16
Car number	33
Former teams	Techeetah,Team Aguri,Nio 333 FE Team
Starts	14
Championships	0
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	19th in2015–16
Finished last season	23rd
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
2011 2020	CTCC 1600cc TCR China Touring Car Championship

Ma Qinghua (simplified Chinese:马青骅;traditional Chinese:馬青驊) (born 25 December 1987) is aChinese racing driver currently competing in theWorld Touring Car Cup withCyan Performance Lynk & Co.

Ma became the firstChinese driver to win anFIA World Championship race when he won race two of the2014 FIA WTCC Race of Russia.^[1] He has also previously competed in theWorld Touring Car Championship,GP2, a few practice sessions inFormula 1, andFormula E.

Ma was born on 25 December 1987 inShanghai. His father, Ma Qiangyun, was the owner of a car repair shop. Ma began karting at the age of 8 and his family decided to focus all financial investments towards Ma's testing on more advanced racing tracks. Eventually, in order to make Ma's progress easier, the family invested in a karting track located in Quyang. Ma won the national karting junior championship at the age of 12.^[2]

Ma started his professional racing career in the2005 Asian Formula Renault challenge withAsia Racing Team for 6 races coming 16th with the highest finish of 5th. He also competed in one race in the2005 Italian Formula 3000 championship forteam Astromega and raced in the2006 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC championship for the same team. He also raced in the inauguralA1 Grand Prix season for Team China at theA1 Grand Prix of Nations, China at theShanghai International Circuit, coming 17th. For the next few years he raced in European Formula 3 championships like the 2008Spanish Formula 3 Championship and2009 British Formula 3 championship. He then competed in the 2010Superleague Formula in the2010 Ordos Superleague Formula round for Team China and a year later won theChina Touring Car Championship's 1600c class driver's title.

Ma was added to theHRT F1 driver development programme on 5 April 2012,^[3] and made history as the first China-born driver to drive a Formula One car at anFIA-sanctioned event, a milestone described as "heralding an important step for Chinese motorsport".^[4][5] Ma also became the first driver of Chinese nationality to take part in a Grand Prix weekend when he replacedNarain Karthikeyan in the first Friday practice session of theItalian Grand Prix.^[6] He was given three more chances to drive the car in Friday sessions later that year.^{[citation needed]}

Ma had a contract to become a full time HRT driver in 2013, meaning he would become the first ever Chinese Formula 1 driver, however after HRT collapsed at the end of the 2012 season, this would never be and Ma instead moved toCaterham, continuing the role of Friday test driver whilst racing for theirGP2 Series team for theseason.^[7] In2013 Chinese Grand Prix, he replacedCharles Pic to participate in FP1 and became the first Chinese driver to drive at his home Grand Prix session, but he was about 1.5 seconds off the pace to his teammateGiedo van der Garde and out of the 107% reference time to the quickest driver in Free Practice 1. Soon after the2013 Chinese Grand Prix,Caterham team claimed that he would be replaced byAlexander Rossi for the rest of the2013 season. In the2013 Bahrain GP2 Series round,Alexander Rossi made his debut GP2 Series race and took a podium finish.^{[citation needed]}

He made his debut GP2 Series race in2013 Sepang GP2 Series round.^[8] 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.^[9]

Ma raced in the 2014 World Touring Car Championship forCitroën Total WTCC driving at selected rounds in the fourth car.^[10] He won the second round of theRace of Russia, becoming the firstChinese driver to win anFIA World Championship race,^[11] and scored the fastest lap at the first round of theRace of China, Shanghai, ultimately coming 13th in the championship. He was given a full time seat for 2015 and won the second round of theRace of Portugal and finish 4th in the drivers championship. Despite this, he was not retained for 2016.

In 2016, Ma replacedSalvador Duran in the2015-16 Formula E season forTeam 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 byTeCheetah but was replaced by former Haas F1 driverEsteban Gutiérrez following a disappointing series of performances in the first three races of the season.^[12]

Ma returned to Formula E in 2017 with theNio Formula E Team for theParis ePrix replacingLuca Filippi in a one off appearance and again in theNew York ePrix replacingOliver Turvey who was injured. He returned in2019 to race for theNio 333 FE Team alongside Turvey.^[13] He was replaced byDaniel Abt for the Berlin rounds as travel restrictions disallowed him from traveling outside China.^[14] He was not renewed for the2020-21 Formula E World Championship by NIO 333.

Ma competed in the 2020 TCR China series in a Geely Group Motorsport-built Lynk & Co 03 TCR. He has signed for Shell Teamwork Lynk & Co Motorsport and will partner Lu Wei in the six-event series.^[15] On 21 November 2020, at theGuia Race of Macau, Ma finished second in the qualifying race of the2020 TCR China Touring Car Championship season finale, securing the drivers’ title.^[16]

On 22 February 2022, it was announced that Ma Qinghua has joined reigning world champions Lynk & Co Cyan Racing to race a Lynk & Co 03 TCR in the2022 FIA World Touring Car Cup.^[17]

^† As Ma was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.
^‡ Team point score.

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† As Ma was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points

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

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

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^‡ Driver was a World Tour full-time entry and was ineligible for points.

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