sport - No news from the F1 circuit



China will see this weekend the possible largest marketing event before the Olympic Games in 2008, the F1 in Shanghai. Very timely the Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club organized a meeting with some of the participant and from the first hand I can report that there is no news.
Everybody know who is going to win, so everybody concentrates on public relations, marketing talk and a general 'feel good' atmosphere. No less than eighthundred journalists will report about this event. Unfortunately, the general manager of the circuit mr. Mao had to join the mayor for another meeting, so we lacked a view from the Chinese perspective.
Most interesting was the staff at the venue, the Ambassy Club at Huai Hai Zhonglu, who acted as being in a permanent panic, as if we were the first guests they ever encountered outside a class room. Well, that might be true.