Born in Shanghai in 1987, Ma Qinghua began practicing racing at the age of 8 and won the national karting junior championship at the age of 12. At the age of 17, Ma Qinghua has received complete training by participating in countless Asian and domestic small car competitions and achieving excellent results. His talent was recognized by the China Automobile Sports Federation and he was selected as a participant in the 2004 Formula Asia Renault Cambas Series, which resulted in him winning the annual championship with a total victory.
Ma Qinghua was exposed to cars earlier than children his peers because his father, Ma Qiangyun, was a driver for a state-owned company. Ma Qiangyun introduced, "I was actually just a driver earlier. I was driving a Poussin, and once I held the Green Horse in the driver's seat, I stepped on the clutch, the accelerator and the brakes, and the Green Horse changed gears. Unexpectedly, this child was completely completely strange..."
Since then, every time on the way home, when the car drove to the last road, Ma Qinghua sat on his father's lap, holding the steering wheel in his hand to change gears, and his father was responsible for stepping on the clutch and throttle. Father and son do not speak, but they cooperate well. Ma Qiangyun also purposefully took Ma Qinghua to recognize the car on the street. Basically, every time he finished recognizing the car, the next time he saw it again, Ma Qinghua could always blurt out the name of the car.
When Ma Qinghua was 5 years old, he went to Suzhou with his aunt's family to play. After returning, the eldest aunt said to Ma Qinghua's mother, you are a timid child, and you dare not even cross the bridge. At that time, China had just begun to have media coverage of F1, Shanghai also had a go-kart hall, in order to exercise his son's guts, Ma Qiangyun took his son into the go-kart hall. At that time, the price of driving a go-kart was 38 yuan for 6 minutes, ma Qiangyun encouraged his son to drive a lap, and Ma Qinghua did not dry. His mother coaxed him to drive together, better than who drove better, and Ma Qinghua agreed. As a result, her mother hit the wall, Ma Qinghua drove very well, and Ma Qinghua became fascinated by go-karts ever since.
It is precisely because of the guidance of his parents since childhood that Ma Qinghua has slowly become interested in racing, laying the foundation for his future racing career. In the 2010 China Touring Car Championship, Ma Qinghua and writer and racing driver Han Han were rivals, Ma Qinghua was in Beijing Hyundai Team, Han Han was Shanghai Volkswagen 333 Team, in Hohhot, Ma Qinghua defeated Han Han, and in the sixth Beijing street race, Han Han won the second place, ma Qinghua was the third place.
The 20-year-old Ma Qinghua teamed up with Royal Car Silverstone and placed him in the Spanish Formula 3 race, and achieved unprecedented results for Chinese drivers in the world, and the Chinese drivers hit the hope of f1.
On September 5, 2012, hrt Team officially confirmed on its official website that Chinese driver Ma Qinghua would play in the first practice match of the F1 Italian Grand Prix, which also made Ma Qinghua the first Chinese driver to participate in the F1 weekend race in the true sense.
On May 12, 2019, Chinese driver Ma Qinghua won the 3rd round of the 2019 WTCR Slovakia Regular Race at the Slovakia Ring Circuit, which is also the first time in the history of Chinese drivers in WTCR! Let Ma Qinghua earn enough face for Chinese riders! I also hope that Ma Qinghua will go farther and farther on the road of racing!