Chery Arrizo 8 Wins CTCC Shanghai Opener on TTSPORT TR65 Calipers

Round One: A Podium, and a DNF to Answer

The China Touring Car Championship's pro class kicked off on the F1-spec Shanghai circuit, a layout that mixes a long back straight with a string of heavy, high-speed braking zones — the kind of track that punishes any car that can't stop straight, and stop hard, lap after lap.

Chery entered two Arrizo 8s for the opening round. Huang Ying drove a steady, disciplined race through heavy traffic and late-lap pressure to bring the car home in P2 for the class.

Sun Zheng, in the sister car, was running just as strong before a mechanical issue forced a retirement. Not the result anyone wanted — but it set up what came next.

The DNF meant a dead-last grid slot for round two, in a race format that gives no room to hide: 55 minutes plus a lap, with a tight, aggressive field and few real passing windows.

Round Two: Last to First

When the lights went out, Sun Zheng didn't drive like a man starting last. He carved through traffic on lap one — late braking into the inside line, holding his ground side by side — and was up to P4 within the opening laps.

He kept the pressure on through the middle and late stages of the race, right when a 55-minute stint on an F1-length track starts punishing a car's brakes hardest.

Sun Zheng crossed the line first — a full comeback from last on the grid to a race win, in a session that never gave the brakes a break.

It's a strong result for the Chery program, and for every domestic braking supplier working to prove itself at this level of racing.

Why It Came Down to the Brakes

A 55-minute-plus-one-lap race on a track like Shanghai is brutal on a brake system: repeated high-speed stops, back-to-back offensive and defensive braking, heat building lap after lap with no real window to cool down. Fade shows up as a pedal that goes long and soft, or a car that pulls under braking — either one costs a driver the late-braking move that wins a position. Both Arrizo 8s ran TTSPORT's TR65 racing six-piston calipers for the full distance.

The team reported the pedal stayed firm and the feedback stayed linear even late in the race, with braking force holding steady through sustained high heat. In a race where the driver who brakes latest usually wins the corner, that thermal stability let him keep pushing his braking point back instead of backing off to protect the system.

Stopping the car is only half the job. What separates a race caliper from a street one is what happens under load: a stable brake attitude at speed, a chassis that stays controllable at turn-in, consistency across the full race distance, and precise feedback through hundreds of braking events — all things TTSPORT's racing calipers get tested against on tracks like this.

Race-Proven Tech, Built for the Street Too

TTSPORT's approach runs from street builds to professional racing on the same principle: performance is the goal, safety is the floor. What the company learns on track weekends like this one feeds back into the braking hardware it sells to everyday performance drivers, so a street kit shares its foundation with the parts that just won a national touring car race.

A round-one podium and a round-two win from last on the grid is more than one good weekend for Chery's Arrizo 8 program. It's a data point for a Chinese-built race car, running a Chinese-built braking system, on one of the toughest circuits in the country.