LIQUI MOLY Team Engstler Signs Charles Kaki Ng As Driver

Title defense with a new face

LIQUI MOLY Team Engstler signs Charles Kaki Ng as driver

Ulm / Wiggensbach, February 2012 – The LIQUI MOLY Team Engstler is undertaking the title defense project in the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) with a new man: the Chinese Charles Kaki Ng will occupy the cockpit of Kristian Poulsen. The world champion of last season has ended his racing career. Kaki Ng contested the three World Championship races in Asia in 2011 for his new racing team.

In Suzuka, Shanghai and Macao, the 27 year old Hong Kong-Chinese started last year with a BMW of the LIQUI MOLY Team Engstler. He gained his first World Championship point in the second race in Shanghai. "The start was promising. Now we are helping get Charles in shape for the soon to begin new season and for the title defense project", says team manager Kurt Treml. In 2011 the racing team won the team ranking for private teams and the driver title. The ambitions of Engstler Motorsport and the main sponsor from Ulm are accordingly high.

In order to integrate himself as well as possible, Ng has traded the beaches of the US west coast in Rowland Heights, California, for snow and the Allgäu mountains. The driver is currently residing with the team in Wiggensbach, is being treated there with sports medicine, is working together with the mechanics in the build-up phase for the new racing car and is busily training on the simulator. "In this way he can optimally adapt to processes and integrate himself into the team", Kurt Treml explains. English is the working language; he wants to learn German and Swabian. Ng speaks English, Cantonese, Mandarin and Japanese fluently.

1 The young Chinese is not only eloquent; he is also an extraordinary driver: Ng began his motorsport career with drifting. In order to be able to build up his sport more intensively, he moved to the USA at the age of 19. He contested his first touring car races in 2008. One year later he started for the first time in the Asian touring car series, which he won in 2010 on total ranking.

Off the race track, Ng is interested in playing guitar, karaoke and golf. His role models include the deceased racing driver Ayrton Senna and the Japanese pro driver, Tsuchiya Keiichi, known in the scene as the 'drift king'.

For 2011 Ng plans to build on his successful WTCC debut and make his contribution to defending the title.