2024 Review | Pingtan International Tourism Island Ruixing Team by Blackjack hopes to go further

Pingtan International Tourism Island Ruixing Racing Team by Blackjack, a Formula One team that has long participated in domestic and international competitions, took the lead in the 2024 Shell Helix FIA Formula F4 China Championship and won the championship in both rounds of the opening race. Jiang Fukang won the annual championship in his first season with the team, Vietnamese driver Hoang Dat Sawer won two sub-station championships, and Fu Zhenjiang stepped onto the group podium in Shanghai.

Yang Kaiwen, Lu Ye, Li Sicheng, Lin Liqing, Viktor Turkin and Cheng Meng represented Pingtan International Tourism Island Ruixing Racing Team by ART and won points and group podiums many times.

International Standard

During the 2024 season, many drivers from all over the world joined Pingtan International Tourism Island Ruixing Team by Blackjack and Pingtan International Tourism Island Ruixing Team by ART to compete in the 18-round finals. It coincided with the first year of the event to use the new generation of F4 formula cars, which also put forward higher requirements for the team to help drivers adapt to the new environment.

Pingtan International Tourism Island Ruixing Racing Team by Blackjack has rich experience in this regard: "Although we are small in scale, former F1 drivers such as Kamui Kobayashi and Rio Haryanto have competed with us. Over the years, we have introduced many international racing drivers to China to participate in the competition."

The team believes that the international environment and high-standard facilities will help drivers meet new challenges, "Our twenty-one racing (Blackjack Racing) is made up of Chinese and foreign staff, ensuring that every driver, regardless of their background, can feel at home. This is a truly international environment, comparable to racing in other parts of the world. Motorsport is a global sport, and in China, we have all the resources and infrastructure that meet international standards. "

Team spirit

Pingtan International Tourism Island Ruixing Racing by Blackjack won the first battle of the 2024 season, with Hoang Dat Sawer and Jiang Fukang winning the overall championship of two rounds in Shanghai. The opening race has therefore become the most impressive stop of the entire season for Pingtan International Tourism Island Ruixing Racing by Blackjack: "The most impressive event should be the opening race in Shanghai, because we won the double championship. First of all, it was held at the same venue as the much-anticipated Chinese F1 Grand Prix. Before the event, you can already feel the exciting atmosphere, and the enthusiasm of the audience can be imagined. Secondly, this is also the F4 The Gen2 car made its debut in China, so everyone is looking forward to it. "

The team attributed this success to excellent driver performance and close teamwork: "Although we have advanced cars and an excellent driver lineup, the competition is also quite fierce. Of course, our drivers performed very well and the teamwork was seamless, and we finally won two games. "

After experiencing the joy of winning the championship in Shanghai, Pingtan International Tourism Island Ruixing Team by Blackjack faced more challenges and ups and downs. "This is a mixed season. We have experienced some wonderful race weeks and some unsatisfactory race weeks. Until the last race of the season, we are still competing for the driver championship and the team championship with Jiang Fukang. "Pingtan International Tourism Island Ruixing Team by Blackjack evaluated the overall performance of this season.

Pingtan International Tourism Island Ruixing Racing Team by Blackjack also praised the efforts of all the team members: "Looking back on the entire 2024 season, every staff member of our team worked very hard, whether it was administrative staff, engineers, or technicians, everyone's work performance was very good, doing their work carefully and carefully, showing a high team spirit, because of their strong support behind us, we successfully completed the game and achieved such excellent results. Thank you very much for your efforts."

On the other hand , the new car and the new driver lineup also brought a lot of challenges to the team's campaign. "As a participating team, we have been striving for higher goals, but we must admit that for most of this season, we have been working with inexperienced new drivers and new cars that are unfamiliar to us."

"Although our performance this year is not satisfactory, we still have room for improvement. I believe we can achieve better results next year." Pingtan International Tourism Island Ruixing Team by Blackjack concluded.

High aspirations

The new season is getting closer and closer. Pingtan International Tourism Island Ruixing Team by Blackjack not only looks forward to achieving more in the event, but also maintains a higher goal------to help the development of Chinese motorsports: "Looking forward to next year, we will still conduct daily test drives at home in Zhuhai and Ningbo, and will continue to compete in the FIA F4 China Championship and other suitable events. We hope to cooperate with more outstanding drivers to contribute to the development of domestic motorsports and the training of more young drivers."

Look forward to Pingtan International Tourism Island Ruixing Team by Blackjack to go one step further in the 2025 season and train more young talents for Chinese motorsports in the Shell Helix FIA Formula F4 China Championship!

F4, Formula 4, is a formula event founded by the International Automobile Federation in 2014. Teenagers aged 15 or above can participate after receiving the formula training course. The F4 Formula event aims to fill the gap between karting and F3, and build a promotion path for young drivers from karting to F4, then to F3, F2, and finally to F1. The Shell Helix FIA Formula 4 China Championship, founded in 2015, is a formula series in China authorized by the International Automobile Federation. The championship is hosted by the China Automobile and Motorcycle Sports Federation, exclusively operated and promoted by Mingtai Racing Sports Co., Ltd., and exclusively sponsored by Shell Helix, aiming to train more young drivers to enter world-class events such as F1.