Shanghai

Worth knowing

• Watch for

  Turn 14 is the biggest braking zone of the lap, at the end of a straight about 1.2 km long. It is the main passing spot, and Turn 6 is the next best.

• The shape

  Seen from above, the layout resembles shang, the first Chinese character in Shanghai's name. Its designers noticed this while drawing the track and developed the idea.

• The ground

  The site was swampland and rice paddies, so it needed extensive groundwork before the track could be built.