Australia poised to go back to opening round on 2025 F1 schedule – Motorsport Week

The Australian Grand Prix at the Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne is poised to go back to its conventional opening slot on the Formula 1 schedule for the 2025 season. F1 fans will not need to cast their minds too far back to when the season-opener in Melbourne was prevalent, a custom that started with Albert Park’s launching in 1996, simple months after Adelaide liquidated the 1995 season and dropped off of the calendar for great. In the last few years, Bahrain has actually actioned in as the yearly F1 curtain-raiser, however Journalist Joe Saward reports through his JSBM Newsletter that the holy month of Ramadan demands a reshuffle next year. Absolutely nothing is verified since yet, nevertheless, with the 2025 F1 calendar anticipated to be released earlier than regular this year. As it stands, Australia is set to open F1’s 2025 procedures for the very first time given that 2019 on March 9 followed a week later on by the Chinese Grand Prix (which is poised to make its F1 resurgence not long after a five-year lack.) A week break would then continue to a triple-header led by the Japanese Grand Prix (March 30), followed by Bahrain and Saudi Arabian GPs (April 6, April 13). Max Verstappen (NLD) Red Bull Racing RB20 leaves the grid. 24.03.2024. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 3, Australian Grand Prix, Albert Park, Melbourne, Australia, Race Day. The Australian Grand Prix delights in the most significant F1 agreement of all amongst the existing crop of circuits, slated to be a part of procedures through 2037. This came off the back of 2 extensions in 2022. The Albert Park place revealed a 10-year extension in June 2022 guaranteeing its stay on the calendar from 20225 through 2035, stating it to be the F1 season opener on 5 celebrations through that duration. This was followed by an additional two-year extension in December 2022. F1’s self-confidence in Albert Park to place on a Grand Prix program is shown in the growing presence figures for the Australian GP. Following a two-year Covid-infused hiatus in 2020 and ’21, the 2022 Australian GP saw a weekend participation of over 419,000, which was a record-setting figure for Melbourne at the time. That record was then pressed to over 444,000 in 2023 and this year’s occasion set an even greater standard of 452,055 viewers. Extremely, that puts the race 3rd all-time for biggest weekend participation, behind the 2023 British Grand Prix at Silverstone (480,000 viewers) and Adelaide’s 1995 F1 swansong (520,000 viewers). This year’s record-breaking crowd experienced rather of an upset as ruling World Champion Max Verstappen was required to retire in the opening laps due to a rear brake failure, leading the way for Carlos Sainz to romp to triumph, leading a Ferrari one-two surface ahead of Charles Leclerc.

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