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Blog: Mika's Chinese Takeaway
In his McLaren.com blog, two-time World Champion Mika Hakkinen looks back at his early visits to Shanghai, and his first impressions of a Hermann Tilke circuit in Sepang. As you read these words, the Formula 1 ‘circus’ will have settled in the teeming metropolis of Shanghai, the largest city in China, whose population is now widely estimated at around 25 million inhabitants. The Chinese Grand Prix has been an annual event since 2004, always held at the Shanghai International Circuit, which is not actually in Shanghai but rather in Jiading, 12 miles (20km) north-west of downtown Shanghai. The circuit cost £300 million to construct, and is a truly spectacular development, whose...
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