Jiang Tengyi

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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Jiang.

Jiang Tengyi is a Chinese racing driver who drives for A1 Team China. He was born on January 30, 1985 in Shanghai.

In 1998 he attended karting in the Chinese KART Cup and raced himself to third place. In 2000, he repeated his performance in the KART Title Match (International A Grade). He bettered his performance in 2001 with second place. He also won the Macao Jinmei Challenge. The next year, he was champion of the Shanghai TCL KART challenge and got a BMW Scholarship.

He was accepted in German Formula BMW in 2002 and was expected to race in Formula BMW Asia in 2003, but he turned down the chance because Shanghai Volkswagen sponsored him to race in German Formula Volkswagen.

After Formula Volkswagen was discontinued at the end of 2003, he earned a place in Italian Formula Renault in 2004 and in 2005, earned a place in A1 Team China in the A1 Grand Prix series. He has since been replaced by Cheng Chongfu and Tung Ho-Pin.

For 2007, he has signed with Brooks Associates Racing to compete in the Champ Car Atlantic Championship, with a view of moving up to the Champ Car World Series eventually.