The penultimate round of the Formula One Championship will take place this weekend in Shanghai, China, with everything still to play for.

The Shanghai circuit will provide a unique test for the Formula One teams this weekend with engineers having to compromise on car setup between the technical turns and banzai straights which will allow for plenty of overtaking.

Lewis Hamilton still leads the driver’s point’s standings by a reduced margin of five points from Felipe Massa, but after a stunning performance in Fuji Robert Kubica has move back into contention just twelve points off the overall lead and only too aware that anything can happen in Formula One.

Lewis will return to the circuit where things took a turn for the worse twelve month ago. A combination of bad team choices and bad luck led to him losing vital points which would have seen him crowned as the champion. He will be hoping that for 2008 all his bad luck has been eradicated.

Felipe will be hoping that when he returns home for the final round of the season in Brazil he will still have a chance of clinching the title and an opportunity to emulate the last Brazilian World Champion and Lewis Hamilton’s childhood idol Aryton Senna.

After the dramas of the opening laps in Fuji last weekend, all competitors will be hoping that the racing will be decided out of on the track and not by officials in the steward’s office.

The current inform driver without a doubt is Fernando Alonso, having put together back to back wins in Singapore and Japan, Alonso will be looking to make it a hat-trick in Shanghai and announce his and the Renault teams return to form.

After a difficult season, two teams that will be hoping for a change of luck in China will be the F1 Honda team and Force India. Neither team has achieved the results hoped for so far but both will be looking to use the last two races of the current campaign as a spring board for better results in 2009.

Toyota, will be hoping that a late season charge by their two drivers will see them regain fourth place in the constructors championship from Renault, a tough task with the sudden upturn in fortunes for the Renault RS27 and Nelson Piquet’s rise to prominence in Japan.

The race gets underway on Sunday at 9am (CET)