The Australian F1 Grand Prix is returning after a two-year hiatus. Here's what you need to know | MickLynch_Age
Albert Park, Melbourne. It’s in a new timeslot, from April 7-10, and is no longer the first race of the season, instead following Bahrain and Saudi Arabia on the calendar. Thursday’s program features Supercars and a number of support categories. The F1 cars hit the track for practice at 1pm and 4pm Friday, and 1pm Saturday ahead of qualifying from 4pm Saturday and the race at 3pm Sunday.
Norris is optimistic he and Ricciardo can maintain improvement in Melbourne, telling the F1 Nation podcast that the new surface and reconfigured track should help McLaren. The expectation is that the average qualifying speed will increase by 15 kilometres per hour and the average qualifying lap should be about five seconds quicker.Last year Formula One sizzled all season long to the heat of the Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton rivalry, with aThis year, however, the Ferrari duo of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz jnr look like taking the fight to Verstappen, the ambitious Red Bull driver.
Verstappen and Leclerc then staged an enthralling duel in Jeddah before the Dutch champion squeezed past in the final laps to post his first chequered flag of the campaign.
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