Changchun Ice and Snow Short-track Car Rally Started

Updated : 2022-01-18Source : CCFAO
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Beijing is the host city for the Winter Olympics and Changchun is a place for fun in winter games. The Changchun Ice and Snow Short-track Car Rally 2021-2022 was started at the Jianpeng Equestrian Center, Nong’an County, on January 15, 2022. 

Wonderful performances were staged at the opening ceremony to celebrate the start of the race. The organizing committee says the effort is to meant to welcome the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, and promote the campaign of attracting 300 million people to ice and snow games. The event is hosted by the People’s Government of Changchun City and organized by Changchun Municipal Bureau of Sport and the People’s Government of Nong’an County. 

Starting gun signaled, the cars galloped away like runaway horses. Motors roaring with cars turning, stopping, jumping and drifting on arena, the audience in turn were pleased to their hearts’ content.   

The two-day event attracted 107 contestants, including domestically famous champions and racing enthusiasts to compete for cross-country professional group, cross-country rookie group, RV professional group, RV rookie group, UTV group and unified brand group. The track totals 1.6km. It adopts the form of a single track for two-car competition. The time used by a player to complete the competition and his time of penalty decides a player’s ranking. “I love watching such competition. My son and I are here for one of my good friends. Changchun has an ideal racing atmosphere. May the competition succeed, and good luck to my friend,” said a man surnamed Zhai from Harbin.  

Changchun is known as a birthplace for ice and snow car rally. After more than ten years of development, Changchun Ice and Snow Car Rally has become one of the important events in China.