Red Bull Racing's Daniil Kvyat says that he's looking forward to returning to Shanghai next week for his third Chinese Grand Prix, even if his first two visits there didn't prove to be particularly successful for the 21-year-old Russian.
"My first race there was in 2014 and we had a wet qualifying which made it challenging as we had very different conditions for the race," agreed Kvyat, who ended up finishing just inside the points in tenth place on that occasion while racing with Toro Rosso.
A promotion to the Red Bull team in 2015 saw him fail to finish the race with a technical issue on the car. Having already suffered brake and engine problems in practice and qualifying respectively, it made it something of a weekend to forget.
But Kvyat isn't letting any of that get him down, and it already plotting his race strategy going into the first corner next Sunday.
"I think the Shanghai Circuit is actually a really interesting and technical track," he said. "Turn One is a unique corner and the fast changes of direction in the middle of the lap are challenging."
Whatever the race itself holds, Kvyat has no qualms about enjoying the location itself.
"Shanghai itself is very unique and a really big city. I used to live in Moscow which is big but it doesn’t compare to the size of Shanghai.
"I think it’s quite an international city, with many things going on there and some nice food. The river that runs through the city is so massive it actually looks like an ocean.
"The fans in China are also very passionate, we have a great group of fans there. I even saw some of them in Australia and they gave me some nice presents. It’s very cool to get this kind of support."
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