Liu Caodong

Who is Liu Caodong?

Liu Caodong was a Chinese rally driver born in Chongqing. He won the Chinese Rally Championship in 2008 and 2010. In 2010, Liu contested in the World Rally Championship with the Stobart M-Sport Ford Rally Team driving a Ford Focus RS WRC 08, co-driven by Australian Anthony McLoughlin. His name was misspelled as “Liu Chao Dong” on the entry list. That was the first time that a Chinese driver had driven a World Rally Car in the championship. He died of a cerebral edema caused by hypoxia alcoholism in 2011 at the age of 26.