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Would be awesome if the williams, toyota and redbull can challange brawn again like what we had in sepang. I got the feeling Button will win it again, hes the man this year.

The diffusers will be banned and Jenson will still win by a clear minute. Williams and Toyota will be battling in the midfield.

Quick question: If the diffusers are deemed illegal, then what happens to the cars for this weekend. Will they have to modify them before the race?

Most likely. Don't see alternative.

Thats what i thought, unless they have been working on a backup incase of such a situation occuring.

Won't the officials do the same thing that they did with the Brabham BT46B? Ban that particular design, but allow them to keep the victories since the car had actually passed initial inspection?

Too much sense in that argument.

I like this track. Just a pity there is nothing around it.

Shit track, hopefully F1 2009 will be able to put on a good show unlike last year.

Same. I'm extremely curious to see how the new cars will perform on this track.

I do like the track, but for a single drive at a game lol. I've got the impression it's crap for providing decent racing. But considering this is going to be a normal race (without a tsunami falling from the sky) at a typical modern track, this can be a good test for the new cars.

I'm really curious about this race.

Turn 13 is kind of place where this year's cars should be better following a car ahead than last year, so there is good possibility for some more overtaking. But of course it needs car behind to be faster. Turn 1 meanwhile isn't really kind of corner that encourages passing.

Racing-wise this has been worst Tilke track that has staged multiple Grand Prix's.

I would "exspect" that Turn 7-8 will be the area were it's most likley to go wide or get oversteer.

I remeber hearing during the Aussie GP that Williams and Toyota had an alternative design in case their current diffuser was deemed illegal, whilst Brawn GP dont have a concrete plan B for their diffuser. Not sure if that was 100% accurate, or indeed if that situation has changed since then. Nevertheless, Im pretty sure though that the current diffuser designs will be deemed legal

This track sucks

If BrawnGP hasn't a "plan b" for the diffuser thing it means they're pretty sure that its diffuser is legal just like you said.

I think the other teams will have to bite the dust.

PS.: This track DOES NOT suck.

I do like the turn 1/2 layout here....mainly from racing games but just once I want to see someone ballsy enough to stick it around the outside of someone in turn one long enough to be on the inside for turn 2.
It's nearly happened a couple of times now, (mainly in the wet) but the last apex of the corner seems to prevent the outside car from remaining alongside

Aside from that, the back straight is like 3/4 of a mile long isn't it? Even the old cars could get a tow down that thing so I think the new cars won't have a problem.
(Though KERS cars might have a unique problem in that they'll get on the button, complete the pass and then realise there's still most of the straight still to go and the car behind will then get in their slipstream and re-pass them! )

I can't agree about Shanghai being a sh*t track. I believe it is a very interesting layout. Also, who cares if racing is boring? It's fantastic to just see these cars drive.

Well most of the corners in Shanghai are technically extremely challenging and demand a lot of downforce, but for the straights it might be not that advantageous to have such an extreme setting. Therefore the track layout itself has the purpose to make it to driver as difficult as possible and this year it might be even more visible. On the other hand this is why I dislike the track like most of other Tilke tracks. It has been built in an effort to make better racing, which is why every single detail of the track has been taken into that consideration. Therefore it looks very unnatural.

I''m going there. Hope the weatehr will be fine.

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