(GMM) Michael Schumacher's looming retirement has led to soaring ticket sales for the Chinese grand prix.
The Ferrari veteran announced his retirement at Monza on September 10, and since that day, the Shanghai box office has sold a record 3,000 tickets per day, which is a fifty per cent increase over normal levels, according to race organisers and the local China Daily newspaper.
''No one can afford to lose the opportunity of watching the racing king's last show in Shanghai in his red Ferrari,'' said the circuit's boss Yu Zhifei.
The Shanghai Star, meanwhile, found in a newspaper survey that 70 per cent of all Chinese F1 fans name 37-year-old Schumacher as their favourite driver.
Written: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:47:33
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