Phillip Island weather forecast forces MotoGP to move Australian Grand Prix from Sunday to Saturday

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Phillip Island weather forecast forces MotoGP to move Australian Grand Prix from Sunday to Saturday
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The Australian Grand Prix will be raced on Saturday instead of Sunday because of high winds forecast for Phillip Island over the weekend.

The Australian Grand Prix will be raced a day early because of wild weather forecast for Phillip Island on Sunday.

Local hope Jack Miller, whose best performance at Phillip Island in MotoGP was a third-place finish in similarly windy conditions in 2019, said after practice on Friday he was keen to have this year's race a day early.Organisers said the lessons learned in 2019, when a qualifying session had to be abandoned, helped them with the decision this time around.

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