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Dodgy Business

On the off-track struggles of the Chinese Grand Prix weekend, Cosworth's painful situation, and Michael Schumacher's magic race...

Eight people are killed every day on the roads in Shanghai. That, apparently, includes pedestrians and cyclists as well as people hitting things in cars and trucks, etc. Frankly, when you see it, you wonder how the toll is not a whole lot worse. If ever there was a place for the FIA's road safety campaign...

The circuit itself is well out of downtown Shanghai and it's at least a 50-minute schlep backwards and forwards every day, with each trip involving at least 20 near misses.

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