RACE TRUCKIE: Shanghai Pictures and container update.

The Bamboo Engineering pit wall stand gets new graphics

It seems that the missing containers are somewhere between South Africa and Singapore.
WILL THEY MAKE IT TO MACAU? We shall have to wait and see.
Some teams had brake parts in the containers and were forced to bring brake discs and brake pads with them when they flew to China. They will have to do the same when they come back for the last race in Macau. Some teams are also missing some wheel rims but they have made arrangements to cover this for Shanghai and Macau. Unfortunately there are also some parts of bodywork for the cars, all of the garage flooring for the teams, catering and cooking equipment as well as the tyre fitting equipment and some promotional clothing.

The Great Firewall of China that protects the Chinese internet from the rest of the world is upsetting all the Facebook users in the teams, as well as my blog. Some of the teams are staying in a hotel that use a VPN in Hong Kong. But this only works on the cable broadband, in the hotel, not on the wireless. With a VPN, you can access all of the sites like Facebook, YouTube, etc.
My friends from Polestar Volvo are straight back into the swing of things. They know all of the technical and scrutineering procedures. It is like they never left the WTCC.
My drive to the circuit takes me 1 hour and the driver of my minibus is crazy. Chinese driving styles are unique. I suggest you have a search on YouTube and check it out for yourselves. Yesterday, we narrowly missed a dog that was on some suicidal walk across a 4 lane highway. I hope the dog made it across but my instincts tell me otherwise. We were also treated to the sight of a lorry that had a big bag of gravel fall of the back because there were no straps to secure the load. And a car decided to try to take a 40kmh bend at double this speed and he disappeared down the embankment. I see more "action" on the Chinese roads in 5 days as I probably see all year in the rest of the world.