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*Shanghai on Track for F1

Workers are toiling around the clock to ensure the circuit is ready when the show comes to town

With China’s first Formula One race six months away, workers are toiling around the clock to ensure the Shanghai International Circuit is ready when the biggest show in international auto racing comes to town.

The project’s, 7000 workers, mostly local farmers in ragtag suit jackets, planed trees, laid pipe and shoveled gravel, appearing as tiny dots against the hulking masses of pavement and steel.

The Shanghai circuit was designed by Herman Tilke, a prolific German who also created the Bahrain circuit that debuted Sunday.

The complex can accommodate more than 200.000 spectators-about 1 percent of greater Shanghai’s population.

(Source: Gulf News)