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Tyres:

Same as in the opening two races: soft (yellow) and hard (silver), but no evaluation tyres for practice.

Unlike Malaysia, where we provided the teams with an experimental tyre for free practice, we will give each team one extra set of the usual hard tyres for Friday's first free practice session just as we did in Australia. We saw then that it worked well, allowing the teams to maximise their track time and prepare as thoroughly as possible for the race, so we'd like to give them the same opportunity again

DRS Zone:

Last year saw the highest number of pit stops in the history of the Chinese Grand Prix. There were a total of 67 stops, an average of 2.79 per driver, at a race that was held in mixed conditions. By way of comparison, the Malaysian Grand Prix that has just taken place had 59 stops

Standings:

1 Sebastian Vettel 50
2 Jenson Button 26
3 Lewis Hamilton 22
4 Mark Webber 22
5 Fernando Alonso 20
6 Felipe Massa 16
7 Nick Heidfeld 15
8 Vitaly Petrov 15
9 Kamui Kobayashi 6
10 Sébastien Buemi 4
11 Adrian Sutil 2
12 Michael Schumacher 2
13 Paul Di Resta 2


1 Red Bull/Renault 72
2 McLaren/Mercedes 48
3 Ferrari 36
4 Renault 30
5 Sauber/Ferrari 6
6 Toro Rosso/Ferrari 4
7 Force India/Mercedes 4
8 Mercedes 2