The Most Famous
RACING DRIVERS from China
This page contains a list of the greatest Chinese Racing Drivers. The pantheon dataset contains 888 Racing Drivers, 2 of which were born in China. This makes China the birth place of the 36th most number of Racing Drivers behind Egypt and Israel.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Chinese Racing Drivers of all time. This list of famous Chinese Racing Drivers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Guanyu Zhou (1999 - )
With an HPI of 34.14, Guanyu Zhou is the most famous Chinese Racing Driver. His biography has been translated into 28 different languages on wikipedia.
Zhou Guanyu (Chinese: 周冠宇; pinyin: Zhōu Guànyǔ, pronounced [ʈʂóʊ kwân.ỳ]; born 30 May 1999) is a Chinese racing driver who currently competes in Formula One for Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber. He is the first, and so far the only, Chinese driver to start a World Championship Formula One race. He competed in the FIA Formula 2 Championship for UNI-Virtuosi Racing from 2019 to 2021, having finished 3rd in the 2021 campaign. A former member of the Alpine Academy, he served as the test driver for the Renault F1 Team and the Alpine F1 Team in 2020 and 2021 respectively. Prior to that, he was a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy from 2014 to 2018, and served as the development driver for Formula E team DS Techeetah in 2018.
2. Ma Qinghua (1987 - )
With an HPI of 27.42, Ma Qinghua is the 2nd most famous Chinese Racing Driver. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Ma Qinghua (simplified Chinese: 马青骅; traditional Chinese: 馬青驊) (born 25 December 1987) is a Chinese racing driver currently competing in the World Touring Car Cup with Cyan Performance Lynk & Co. Ma became the first Chinese driver to win an FIA World Championship race when he won race two of the 2014 FIA WTCC Race of Russia. He has also previously competed in the World Touring Car Championship, GP2, a few practice sessions in Formula 1, and Formula E.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as racing drivers born between 1987 and 1999. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living racing drivers include Guanyu Zhou and Ma Qinghua. As of April 2022, 1 new racing drivers have been added to Pantheon including Guanyu Zhou.
