Pre-Chinese Grand Prix

Chinese Grand Prix

Location: Shanghai, China

Date: Apr. 10

Time: 4 PM

Track: Shanghai International Circuit

Track Length: 5.5 km

Total Laps: 56

Track Type: Permanent road course

Lap Record: Silvio Maldonado 1:30.482

The Chinese Grand Prix used to be a great highlight in the F1 calendar back then. But as the years passed and the sport grew more modern, costly, and exorbitant, China made it clear that they were not really ready for the spiking growth.

At that time, the economy faced fluctuations, so the cost of maintaining the event, particularly with the evolving technological demands of modern F1, became too expensive for the organizers to sustain long-term.