F1 returns this weekend after a 3 week gap and moves on to the European season. Most teams if not all will be bringing upgrades to this race as Red bull try and stay ahead and everyone else tries to catch up with them.

The last Grand Prix in China finally brought in to racing what I said they should do several years ago. Give the drivers the option to either conserve tyres and make less stops or run the tyres ragged for less laps but make more stops. This adds some element of tactics and strategy from the drivers and made for a really entertaining race.

There is rain expected this weekend which may make things a little more random as none of the teams have much wet weather testing and the first practice resulted in neither Mclaren setting a time really and Vettel crashed so heavily he missed the second session. I am really looking forward to this race as it is I think the best of the new circuits.

Here is a lap of the circuit.

Circuit map by http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Will_Pittenger