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I would like the username rgordon changed to Hank Hill. Its what I use on other forums, and rgordon quite honestly sounds stupid and has for awhile.

In theory, the move away from Malaysia should lead to a more predictable climate, but that may not entirely be the case this weekend either, due to the movement of a developing low pressure system way out to the west of China.

The typical weather pattern here is west to east and, for the next few days, Shanghai will get away with some decent dry weather - although temperatures will be much cooler. Thursday will be much better with an ambient of around 25 degrees, but already clouds will have rolled in, heralding a change for the weekend.

Early predictions are for the low to move in over Shanghai, bringing in some showers on Friday. An overcast day with more prolonged rainfall is expected on Saturday, so Pirelli will have to wait a few more days to see how its tyres perform in wet conditions.

Slowly, the low will slip away to the east before gathering energy over the East China Sea on its way to Japan. This leaves Shanghai with a showery phase on Saturday night once the main area of rain has passed, but by Sunday conditions should be looking much better to leave a dry race.

Temperatures are likely to vary quite widely during the weekend, with maxima of 25 Celsius on Friday, but just 16 or 17 degrees during the dull and damp Saturday, and rising a little to 20 or 21 degrees on race day itself.

The current forecast is by no means set in stone, and the whole weekend hinges on the speed and trajectory of the low moving in from western China. There is a slight possibility that the low will edge south - just enough for most of the rain and showers to miss Shanghai - but it is more likely that we are looking at a showery weekend to come.

Apparently Jaime Alguersuari has made it to Shanghai, but his luggage hasn't...

I think on the back straight, where there is no need of it

"The chassis looks pretty bad," confirmed team manager Beat Zehnder to Blick newspaper. "So far we've only been unable to repair one chassis -- it was Frenzten's after he crashed in Monaco in 1994!" he revealed.

Zehnder said the loose ballast from Buemi's car was like "a bomb" hitting the C30, which raises obvious safety implications. "We have informed the FIA," he said.

Checo?

What hit?