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Mika's Chinese takeaway

Former McLaren F1 driver Mika Häkkinen talks about the Chinese Grand Prix. 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 facilities are state-of-the-art. My Formula 1 career came to an end in 2001, of course, so I have not...
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