Join us for live commenting during Chinese Grand Prix final practice and qualifying coming up soon. Here’s today’s round-up: Links FIA-GT1 2010 at Abu Dhabi Massive Crash for Natacha Gachnang (YouTube) Sebastien Buemi’s cousin Natacha Gachnang had a surprisingly similar crash to his in practice for the inaugural GT1 race at Abu Dhabi yesterday.

First practice for the Chinese Grand Prix is coming up soon – join us for live comments during both of today’s sessions. Here’s today’s round-up: Links Looking to the past for inspiration (Motorsport) “In recent years I have sometimes struggled to maintain my enthusiasm. They all look the same, they all sound the same.

Chinese GP race preparation in pictures Michael Schumacher says he can still fight for the world championship despite having only scored nine points in the first three races . Schumacher believes the new points system introduced this year will help him get back in touch with the leaders – if Mercedes can develop the W01 quickly enough.

Whenever a new race is added to the F1 calendar it’s only a matter of time before stories appear claiming construction problems will prevent the race from happening. It happened with Abu Dhabi last year and with other purpose-built venues before that and, sure enough, stories claiming the Korean Grand Prix organisers were running behind schedule popped up earlier this week. Now Bernie Ecclestone has been to the venue and insists everything is running according to plan

The F1 Fanatic mobile site is back up and running now so those of you viewing the site on mobile devices should find it loads more quickly. It’s using the same style sheet as before so if you’d rather view the normal site you can scroll to the bottom of the page and click to exit the mobile version.

The F1 Fanatic mobile site is back up and running now so those of you viewing the site on mobile devices should find it loads more quickly. It’s using the same style sheet as before so if you’d rather view the normal site you can scroll to the bottom of the page and click to exit the mobile version

Chinese GP race preparation in pictures Virgin hope they have solved the fuel pick-up problems which have dogged their car in the opening races. The fuel system has been a bane of the VR-01, particularly the fuel tank whose small size means they have to conserve fuel to complete a race distance.

Entries for the fourth round of the F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship are now open for those of you who want to get in early. Remember you have until 4am (BST) on Saturday to enter your predictions so you can wait until after Friday practice

Entries for the fourth round of the F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship are now open for those of you who want to get in early.

McLaren say they won’t have to make any changes to their car after the FIA clarified the rules regarding ride height adjustment. Speaking during the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Phone-In engineering director Paddy Lowe said the team hadn’t developed ride height-adjusting technology as far as some other teams had: We were aware over the last few months of a slightly different approach to it which we hadn’t historically thought to be the normal interpretation and we were reacting to that.