After starting its season very late, the China Circuit Championship moved to Beijing where the second round of the series was held.
　
The Beijing Golden Port International Circuit has a compact configuration and its length is only 2.4km with many corners in succession. In addition to that, the surface is always dirty and abrasive for tires, kind of like a sandpaper, which means that tires wear much faster than usual. Because tire changes during the race was mandatory last year, tire wear was not an issue in setting up the cars, but the competitors have to run through the finish with no tire changes this year. Therefore, teams tried to find out a good set up to go faster with consideration given to the wear rate of tires.
　
In the second round of the series, the pair of Wang Rui and Han Han driving Volkswagen POLOs run by the Shanghai VW 333 Racing, and another pair from the Dongfeng Nissan Ghiasports Team, Guo Haisheng and Lin Lifeng, driving Nissan TIIDAs, continued to be in good shape. As in the same fashion as the season opener, the top four slots in the qualifying session were occupied by these four cars all equipped with YOKOHAMA tires again and, the winner of the last race, Wang Rui took the back-to-back pole position.
　
With the temperature above 30℃, the race started. With the pole sitter Wang Rui, Guo Haisheng and Han Han qualified in second and third respectively and formed the leading echelon. Meanwhile, Lin Lifeng, who finished the last race in third, made a mistake at the start and was engulfed by the following cars. But he recovered to sixth at the end of the opening lap and then came back to fourth (where he qualified) on Lap 5.
　
From Lap 13, back markers were being lapped by the leaders, and the expertise of the leading competitors in passing the slower cars appeared to be the key to victory. Indeed, thanks to a back marker, Han Han in third quickly reduced the gap with Guo Haisheng in second and passed him on Lap 17 when Haisheng got stuck with another back marker to form a one-two of the Shanghai VW 333 Racing's POLOs.
　
The top four cars continued to lap at a high and consistent pace, but a twist awaited them in the closing stage of the race. Guo Haisheng, running in third, was unexpectedly blocked by a back marker and had to brake hard to avoid a collision. This caused severe damage to his front tires and he was forced to his pit to change tires. Although he resumed the race with new front tires, the delay was crucial and only five minutes to the finish was not enough for him to rejoin the leading echelon.
　
Eventually, Wang Rui scored the second consecutive win with Shanghai VW 333 Racing's POLO, having kept a 1 minute 13 seconds bracket pace throughout the race. He was followed by his teammate Han Han and the back-to-back one-two finish for the team was accomplished. Lin Lifeng of Dongfeng Nissan's TIIDA came in third, which meant the same lineup on the podium as in the season opener. With all drivers below fourth lapped by the top three finishers, the superiority of YOKOHAMA tires was confirmed again.
　
The third round will be held at Zhuhai, Guangdong which is torrid and thousands of kilometer south of Beijing. As the CCC adopts the success weight penalty system, the three drivers on the podium in the first two races of the season have to carry more weight on their cars and it may induce a somewhat different situation in the next round. The Zhuhai International Circuit is the home track of the reigning champion, Guo Haisheng, who has been ill-fated in the last two races and a fierce battle can be expected because he won't carry any penalty weight in the third round. Anyway, the Zhuhai round will certainly feature those four YOKOHAMA users out in front again, just to demonstrate the performance of YOKOHAMA tires.