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Located approximately 60 km south of the capital city Kuala Lumpur, the circuit is usually raced in a clockwise direction. This circuit is famous for its sweeping corners and long back straights.

There are other configurations of the Sepang circuit that can also be used. It has the north circuit which is essentially the first half of the main circuit. This is exactly about 2.71 kilometres long. The south circuit, which is the other half of the racecourse, is about 2.61 km in length. When the south circuit is in use, the back straight of the main circuit becomes the pit straight and later joins onto the turn 8 of the main circuit, forming a hairpin turn.

The record for the fastest lap on this circuit is held by Juan Pablo Montoya (1 min 34.223 sec).

As is common with many other racing circuits, Shanghai International Circuit was designed by Hermann Tilke and bears his signature styles, long back straight followed by a hairpin turn. The circuit, which features two long straights with both fast and slow corners, makes for demanding brakes and engines

Coincidentally, the layout of the track resembles the Chinese character 'shang', the first character in name of the city Shanghai, which means 'above' or 'ascend'. Thanks to Sanghai's immaculate hosting capabilities of international sports events, this circuit has successfully hosted F1 Chinese Grand Prix, MOTOGP, V8 Super Cars Series and China Circuit Championship (CCC).

The record for the fastest lap on this circuit is held by Michael Schumacher (1 min 32.238 sec).

Designed in 1920 by Jules de Their and Henri Langlois Van Ophem, the circuit hosted the first Formula One Grand Prix in 1925.

The former circuit, which was actually a speed course, allowed the drivers to manage much higher average speeds than on other tracks and this fact made it much popular among the drivers. To further enhance average speeds, the former uphill U-turn at the bottom of the Eau Rouge creek valley was cut short with a much faster sweep straight up the hill. The circuit has, so far, gone through a number of modifications. The track which was originally about 15km long is now just 7.004 km long. The famous Eau Rouge and Blanchimont corners are one of the most exciting features of this circuit.

The record for the fastest lap on this circuit is held by Kimi Raikkonen (1 min 45.108 sec).

The circuit was originally designed, by John Hugenholtz in 1962, for the purpose of testing Honda cars.

With tricky Esses section early in the lap, which calls for great driving precision, this is the only circuit with figure-of-eight track. The circuit can be utilised in three configurations; namely, the full circuit, the "Suzuka East" and "Suzuka West". The east portion of the circuit comprises of the pit straight to the first half of the Dunlop curve. And the west portion is made up of the other part of the full circuit, with the pitlane positioned at the straight before the 130R corner.

The record for the fastest lap on this circuit is held by Kimi Raikkonen (1 min 31.540 sec).