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Before the 2025 Formula 1 campaign actually began, figuring out the pecking order in the midfield based on pre-season testing was tricky, with the data pointing to a close fight.

A United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Shanghai landed in San Francisco after two hours because of the blunder

Industry insiders at a semiconductor trade fair in Shanghai urged more cooperation between the Chinese chip sector and the rest of the world, despite growing trade tensions with Washington.

A United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Shanghai was forced to return midair after a pilot forgot his passport.

Passengers were taken off the plane and forced to take a later service

F1 2025's second race of the season in Shanghai was held in vastly different circumstances than Melbourne's mixed-weather thriller, but this week's winners-losers section features some familiar figures.

F1 heads to Shanghai for the second race of the 2025 season and the first sprint weekend of the new campaign

Following a rainy Australian Grand Prix, a bone-dry race at Shanghai was supposed to be much more straightforward. But Saturday morning's sprint has shown that the tyres will make mastering China anything but simple.

Oscar Piastri took pole for McLaren ahead of the British duo George Russell and Lando Norris in Shanghai, after Lewis Hamilton won the sprint

McLaren’s Oscar Piastri qualifies quickest for the Formula One GP in Shanghai with George Russell second and Lando Norris third

Having dominated Formula 1 in Australia, the expectation was McLaren would at least be as quick on the resurfaced Shanghai International Circuit for round two. With China being a sprint weekend, Friday's sole practice pace was particularly difficult to read much into, with almost no meaningful long-run comparisons across teams.