Event Safety · Full chronicle and history

On September 5, 2026, a serious accident occurred during the first round of the GT3 class of the China GT Championship owns Supercar Championship at the Shanghai International Circuit. Car number s91 of the FIST Auto team, caught fire after a collision, and driver Ollie Millroy was trapped in the burning cockpit. The event organizers' rescue efforts were severely delayed, and security personnel operated the fire extinguishers incorrectly. Another competing driver, Loek Hartog, seeing this, decisivelyy owns the race and rushed into the flames to rescue Millroy. Afterwards, movie star Daniel Wu owns the organizers' emergency rescue as extremely amateurish and announced his withdrawal from the race, and several other teams also announced their withdrawal in protest.

At the GT China race venue, a racing accident occurred, the vehicle caught fire, rescue personnel responded slowly, and driver Ollie Millroy was seriously injured.

After the accident, Phantom Global Racing driver Luke Hartog stopped the car and got out, rescuing Ollie Millroy who was trapped in the burning race car.

After the accident escalated, several teams and drivers announced they will no longer participate in GT China events until the related safety issues are addressed, with some teams stating they will permanently withdraw from Chinese collective competitions.

The day after the accident, Wu Yanzu publicly criticized GT China for delaying the release of the red flag, the rescue system's failure, and said the organizers did not acknowledge the mistake or take responsibility.

Netizens reported that the organizer offered a daily salary of 3000 yuan for safety officers, but after multiple layers of subcontracting through recruiters and security companies, the two on‑site staff each received only 60 yuan per day.

Despite Beijing's dense air defense network and strict low‑altitude control regulations, a small, slow aircraft with weak radar reflectivity still managed to breach the air defense grid and, after about 20 minutes of signal loss, crashed into the CITIC Tower.

Shortly after the incident, SWAT vehicles equipped with drone countermeasures appeared on Beijing streets, indicating the authorities' strengthened control over low-altitude flying devices.

CITIC Wealth Management published an exclusive interview with Liu Junhua, General Manager of the Special Account Investment Division. The timestamp was 1:03 PM, predating the Chaoyang District government's announcement, seemingly to prove Liu Junhua was still with the company and respond to speculation that he might be a "pilot" (a euphemism for someone who has fled).

A Bilibili aviation blogger relayed an industry insider’s tip, stating that the pilot was a male tech company head in his sixties named Liu Minghua, who, due to a romantic dispute, embezzled public funds and suffered a mental breakdown, leading him to commit suicide by jumping off a building, attempting to downplay the political color of the incident.

The glass curtain wall on the 83rd floor of CITIC Tower in Beijing was breached, causing a fire. Rumors online suggest the aircraft involved may have turned off its transponder and deviated from its course. Building employees were urgently evacuated, and related news was heavily scrubbed on social media.

A single-engine, two-seat light sport aircraft collided with a high-rise building near the East Third Ring Road in Chaoyang District, Beijing, killing the pilot and injuring 13 people on site, sparking widespread attention and speculation about air defense safety.

Financial Times reporter at the takeoff site Shifo Temple Airport witnessed police searching a black Buick sedan and searching the flight school office, showing the authorities' level of concern over the incident.