We spent pretty much the whole last weekend on the Shanghai Circuit
since the F1 circus was in town! Me and my roommate Ville booked our tickets
quite a long time ago because we certainly didn’t want to miss this happening :)
the cheapest tickets for the whole weekend were about 340rmb (ca. 40€) on the
grass stand but we bought tickets for a bit better stand and those tickets cost
800rmb (ca. 90€) each. Once arrived at the stand, we realized that it certainly
was worth paying the money because our seats were right at the end of the
finish line with two big curves in front of us. So we actually could see quite
a lot from the race and not just cars passing by with 370km/h like on the
grandstand for example!
On Friday we didn’t go to watch the training session as we had mandatory
lectures the whole day at school but on Saturday we went to the circuit early
in the morning. The subway was surprisingly not that full on the way there yet.
The circuit itself is pretty far from the city center since it’s the subway
ride took almost 90 minutes to get there.. On Saturday’s schedule there was the
last training session in the morning and in the afternoon the actual
qualification for Sunday’s race. Around the circuit there was all kinds of
activities for the visitors. VIP guests had a small circuit where they could
test some AMG Mercedes cars, Porsche had a nice and big pavilion and many of
the F1 teams had their own stands where they sold fan staff. 
On Sunday we went to the circuit way before the actual race to watch the
Porsche team cup race and spend some time around the circuit before the race. This
was my first F1 race I’ve seen live so far and I really enjoyed it. Of course,
you can follow the race much better on TV but it was cool to see and hear the
cars. One big surprise for me were all the Chinese people (mostly female) supporting Kimi Räikkönen! The Finnish flag was by far the most popular one in the stands which felt pretty nice :) besides the massive amount of Chinese supporting Finland, there were quite a lot Finnish people too and we saw many of our friend from the Shanghai Finnish Community too.. One development proposal would be to install a bit bigger screens in
front of the stands so that you could at least see the standings once a while
in between because those what they had there now were really too small.. But
otherwise I’m very pleased how everything was organized. Even the subway worked
decently even though there were 40 to 50 thousand people leaving the area at
the same time :) the Chinese had it, though, well organized and the queue
proceeded nicely without any problems. 
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