Source: Xinhua Net
From October 13th to 14th, the first sports event of the 2018 Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Motor Racing Festival and the Qinhuangdao GT Carnival will be staged in the new Qinhuangdao Shougang Racing Valley Steel Track. The event is organized by Beijing Automobile and Motorcycle Association, sponsored by Shougang Shouqin Company, and Shougang Jingang Company and others. It is promoted in a market-oriented manner, with the first trial operation of commercial activities.
In recent years, Shougang Group has made a major decision on the transformation and development of Shougang Shouqin Company in response to the national steel de-capacity policy, in line with the inevitable trend of the construction of Qinhuangdao international tourism city and the expansion of the central districts to the north, and to seize the important strategic opportunities of the booming development of domestic automotive post-market industry in the “Window Period.” Shougang Shouqin Company suspended production at the end of June 2018. Meanwhile, it initiated the transformation and development, and launched the Shougang Racing Valley concept with regional and cultural features centered on the existing plant area, and named the asphalt-track in the steel plant area as the steel track.
It is known that the Shougang Racing Valley Steel Track is an international race track with the Shougang Shouqin Company’s original factory road as the main part, designed by Yao Qiming. The total length is 3.8 kilometers, including 2.0 kilometers of existing roads in the plant area and 1.8 kilometers of newly-built roads, driving counterclockwise. In a single lap of more than 80 seconds through the steel jungle with industrial remains, car drivers not only concentrate at all times, control the extreme speed again and again, but also quickly switch their driving thinking along the way. Shougang Racing Valley Steel Raceway is an international automobile race track featuring with sport, competitiveness, safety, economy, practicability and aesthetics, experiment, exploration and literary. It is a race track that runs through the metallurgical industrial plant, a race track that fully protects and utilizes industrial remains. The track has been designed with a maximum speed of 272.6 km/h and a total of 17 curves. With the features of fast curve speed, fast top speed and fast pace change, it is very fun and challenging to drive. Here it can hold all car racing events of the FIA and of China except F1.
The 2018 Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Racing Festival and the Qinhuangdao GT Carnival is an important project for practicing the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, which is in line with the functional orientation of Qinhuangdao. It provides the opportunity to learn a popular car racing, to promote racing culture, and to advocate safe driving, civilized driving, law-abiding driving. Also it builds a platform for communication and cooperation between Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei car racing and national fitness activities. Shougang Shouqin Company will build the Racing Valley culture into an important part of Qinhuangdao’s urban culture, and the important entertainment and leisure lifestyle for Qinhuangdao residents. It is reported that the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Racing Festival will be permanently settled in the Shougang Racing Valley.