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Old 8 Sep 2010, 11:53 (Ref:2756132)   #22
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Sodemo, I just don't find Shanghai to fit together as a whole. It has a number of more flowing turns, but then a few more angular ones that happen to be at critical points on the lap. Turns 9 and 10 foul up a lot of runs into Turn 11, which itself fouls up the run through 12 and 13 in its current form. Then you have that overly acute hairpin at 14 with the unnecessary kink at 15. Turn 16 should be loosened up some and made into an actual curve.
Granted, Shanghai does have too many slow corners, but what saves it for me are three things...

1, they still have (some) gravel traps.
2, it often rains.
3, it has that brilliant banked right hander before the long straight.
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