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ICE COOL UNDER PRESSURE

The sweet smell of steamed pork and shrimp dumplings fills the air. Scooters honk as they speed past, while the doorbell of a convenience store sounds its repetitive ditty again. The Bailian Xijiao shopping mall is redolent with everything you would expect in a large Chinese city: flashing neon signs, a Pizza Hut, cosmetics outlets and a small patisserie.

Shanghai sprawls in every direction, but we are not downtown. There are no tourists on the Xianxia Road. There is, however, a group of personnel wearing the unmistakable scarlet overalls and curious ‘Mission Winnow’ iconography of Ferrari. At the centre of them is Maranello’s newest star: Charles

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