Racing Through the Ice and Snow of Yakeshi: 2017 Kunlun Lubricant King of Racing Challenge Concludes in Passion

On December 8, the Kunlun Lubricant Cup · 2017 China Car Performance Competition (2017 CCPC) concluded successfully in Yakeshi. As a newly added event of the 2017 CCPC, the Kunlun Lubricant King of Racing Challenge saw its 15 grassroots drivers stage an “ice and snow duel” of speed and passion. After fierce competition, Wang Yanlong from Beijing won the championship of the Kunlun Lubricant King of Racing Challenge · Yakeshi round, becoming the biggest winner of this round.
Ultimate duel: grassroots kings of racing race across the snow plain
The Yakeshi round of the Kunlun Lubricant King of Racing Challenge was divided into an individual time trial and a team competition, held respectively on a 1-kilometer ice-and-snow corner track and a professional-grade ice-and-snow circular track only 6 meters wide. The multi-corner track has dozens of corners in total, all built on a natural ice-and-snow lake surface, so competitors can enjoy Yakeshi’s ice-and-snow scenery while competing, fully ensuring the professionalism and watchability of the race. On-site staff pointed out that although the Yakeshi track does not look very difficult, the thin layer of snow scattered on the ice makes the surface exceptionally slippery, and the carefully designed ice-and-snow corners make the road conditions relatively harder to read than at the previous two rounds.
On the day of the event, the Kunlun Lubricant King of Racing Challenge started on time after the opening ceremony, with the competition using a format of five cars starting together for speed duels. Although many of the 15 entrants were competing on an ice-and-snow track for the first time, the ample pre-race reconnaissance and test runs greatly reduced the occurrence of accidents and mishaps.
On the track, the 15 racers displayed superb driving skills, roaring engines echoing across the circuit, with cars occasionally drifting and throwing up layer upon layer of snow. In the end, Wang Yanlong from Beijing won by an absolute advantage. Afterwards he revealed that the race required overcoming the troubles that the on-site minus 30-degree cold brought to the vehicles, but that as the race progressed his advantage gradually expanded and the pressure vanished: “That moment when I scraped the snow wall at the last corner was so thrilling — only racing can bring that kind of thrill. Thanks to the Kunlun Lubricant King of Racing Challenge for fulfilling us grassroots drivers’ dream of a professional track.”
Showing the style of a Class-A event, jointly supporting the development of the auto industry
As a featured event of this CCPC, the Kunlun Lubricant King of Racing Challenge landed in Yakeshi, giving the 15 grassroots drivers a chance to experience a new battlefield and to feel the competitive fun brought by different events. Compared with high-temperature asphalt surfaces and high-performance rallies, the ice-and-snow proving ground seems especially distinctive because it is uncommon. Professional racing competition at a proving ground can more scientifically evaluate vehicle performance and the drivers’ driving skills. At the event, the competing vehicles raced passionately and roared past, vividly conveying Kunlun Lubricant’s great-nation craftsman spirit of passion, calmness and all-weather challenge to the many racing fans.
As the only officially designated oil of the 2017 CCPC, Kunlun Lubricant, while escorting the racers, also hoped to use this event as an opportunity to build an exclusive platform for racing fans to realize their racing dreams. As senior management of Kunlun Lubricant said earlier in a media interview, motorsport still needs to be popularized in China; many Chinese people love watching this kind of competition, and some spectators even want to get onto a professional track themselves for a taste of it. “To meet everyone’s needs, this year we partnered with the CCPC for the first time to launch the Kunlun Lubricant King of Racing Challenge, so that friends who love racing can experience the speed and passion of a professional track in person.”
In addition, the fierce clash among more than 85% of mainstream domestic automakers and nearly 40 best-selling models at the circuit not only showed the style of a national Class-A event but also brought consumers objective, authoritative and practical car-buying reference. “We hope to use this event as an opportunity to work with automakers nationwide to jointly drive the continuous development of China’s auto industry,” said senior management of Kunlun Lubricant.
With the perfect conclusion of the Kunlun Lubricant Cup · 2017 CCPC, in the future Kunlun Lubricant will continue to pay attention to more professional events, letting racing fans nationwide release their own driver dreams together with Kunlun Lubricant.