Distinguished guests, Ladies and gentlemen:

Thanks to the outstanding leadership of China Auto Sports Federation, thanks to the vigorous support from Shanghai Sports Bureau and Shanghai Auto & Motorcycle Sports Association, and thanks to generous help of all of you and the media, Shanghai Volkswagen 333 Team achieved a landslide in the 2002 Season. We would also like to extend out gratitude to all the sponsors for our team, especially to Shanghai SAIC Volkswagen Auto Sales Company and Shanghai Volkswagen Co., Ltd. We could not have succeeded without you. Thank you!

The 2002 Season is a year of copious harvest for Shanghai Volkswagen 333 Team. What’s more pleasing is that we get something even more important than the performance– it’s our “strength”.

For instance, what we find in the match is that, as the overall performance of each team is improving, the competition is getting fiercer and the race is usually to close to call until the last minute of the game. So the on-site command and coordination is essential at such a critical moment! Through analysis, we find that appropriate command requires timely and accurate information. That’s why our team has developed a set of computer software that is able to provide in the shortest time real-time information such as performance comparison between us and our competitors for a single lap or multiple laps, comparison of scores of a stage, and anticipation of total score. This program was put into operation in Beijing.

Analysis of our performance and that of competing teams is automatically generated after each lap on different road conditions and it predicted the advantages of our team in the “Che’er Camp” lap and the possible leading time in this lap. With the valuable information, our team immediately came up with a strategy that was to “Win the Che’er Camp”, “Keep steady on Haijia Road” and “Defend in the short-track match”. In addition, based on the information shown in the computer, the team also adjusted the “minimum time limit” for the “Haijia Road” and the “Short track ” match – as long as we are within the minimum time limit, we would be able to maintain our overall leading position with the advantages we won in the “Che’er Camp”. It proved that, despite an unfavorable start in the Beijing station, our team managed to win at last with its “strength”.

After practice in several matches, the software has met our desired needs as it not only provides timely match information to ensure correct command in fierce competition for victory of the team, but also offers basis for future analysis and research.

We were confronted with mighty competitors in each match of 2002 Season; however, it was the competition and pressure that spurred us to learn quicker from the matches.
Despite outstanding performance, we were not complacent. Instead, we held meetings after each match to list all our weaknesses identified and make in-time improvement. For instance, after the match in Shanghai Station and Wuhan Station, we found that the maintenance capability of the team needed to be improved. Therefore, a complete learning and training program was developed to improve the team’s maintenance performance. 6-7:30 every morning was the time of endurance training including soccer and mount climbing that are both exercise and entertainment, as well as physical exercise such as jogging, tire carrying, push-up, leapfrog, etc, which not only prepared maintenance staff for the hardship of the match but also built up desired team discipline. In addition to normal working hours, every afternoon and evening from Tuesday to Thursday is dedicated to studying English, auto techniques and game rules with the hope to raise the overall quality of our maintenance team through increasingly difficult and intensive study. Field training is held on every Friday. And so far, our maintenance staffs have been trained in all kinds of severe weather conditions such as intense summer, heavy rain, and low temperature and their “capability in campaign” was significantly improved.

It’s said that support from sponsors is indispensable for race teams. It is true. We have got vigorous support and help from SAIC Volkswagen and Shanghai Volkswagen and we are looking forward to participation of more sponsors in racing. Meanwhile, we view sponsors’ support as nutritious and fresh blood; and as a race team, we have to strictly discipline ourselves to build up our own strength to win trust and support from sponsors as well as to effectively utilize the “blood” to make the team an invincible team. Otherwise, it is irreverent to ourselves, to the sponsors and to the racing game!

We’ll continue to learn the advanced management philosophy from SAIC Volkswagen and Shanghai Volkswagen, especially the attitude of preciseness and practicability that we learn from German. No complacence, no giving up. We are committed to steadfast improvement to achieve better performance in 2003. Thank you.