Circuit data
Circuit length: 5.451km
Race distance: 56 laps / 305.066km
Full-throttle: 55%
Top speed: 310kph
Longest flat-out section: 19s / 1.37km
Right/left-hand turns: 9/7
Tyre wear: medium
Brake wear: low
Downforce level: medium/high
Gearshifts per lap: 52
Source: BMW, 2007
Tyres
2010 tyres: hard (prime, no stripe), soft (option, green stripe)
2009 tyres: medium (prime, no stripes), super-soft (option, green stripe)
2008 tyres: hard (prime, no stripe), medium (option, stripe)
Pit lane loss: 23s (extra time taken entering and exiting the pit lane)
Shanghai International Circuit video lap
Shanghai International Circuit map
Shanghai International Circuit 2010 (click to enlarge)
Shanghai International Circuit aerial map
Circuit construction
- Longest straight: 1.175km
- Maximum uphill slope: 3%.
- Maximum downhill slope: 8%.
- Total asphalt used (base, binder and wearing courses): 173,000 m2.
- Total length of tyre barriers: 6,500m, using a total of 174,000 units.
- Total guard rail: 11,700m.
- Total FIA safety fencing: 9,350m.
- Total number of concrete piles: 40,000, totalling 800,000m.
- Total spectator capacity: 200,000
- Main grandstand spectator capacity: 29,000
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wish they would stop waving the camera around and just show the track over marks shoulder!
It does indeed take some extra time to enter and exit, but it also takes some time to get from turn 16 to turn 1, so it usually matches up.
The only reason this circuit is good for overtaking is the stupid straight, i hate circuits with 2 or more long straights, it might as well be a drag race