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The Australian Grand Prix is an annual motor racing event which is under contract to host Formula One until 2035. [clarification needed] [1] One of the oldest surviving motorsport competitions held in Australia, the Grand Prix has moved frequently with 23 different venues having been used since it was first run at Phillip Island in 1928.
The Australian Grand Prix is planned to host the opening race of the 2025 season for the first time since 2019. The Australian Grand Prix was the third round in the past three seasons, after the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix, respectively, with those events being pushed back in 2025 to avoid a conflict with Ramadan .
The Grand Prix regularly draws crowds of over 270,000 spectators, with the 2024 drawing a record crowd of 452,055, including 132,106 on the main raceday. [8] There has never been a night race at Albert Park , although the 2009 and 2010 events both started at 5:00 p.m. local time.
F1 has announced that the date of the Canadian Grand Prix will shift back to May from 2026 onwards in a further move to regionalise the sport’s calendar. F1 announced last week, as part of a six ...
The woman Sabalenka defeated in last year's final in Melbourne, Olympic gold medalist Zheng Qinwen, meets qualifier Anca Todoni in the first 2025 match in Laver at 11:30 a.m. (7:30 p.m. EST), with ...
There have been 19 Formula One drivers from Australia, 16 of which have taken part in at least one race since the championship began in 1950, and 3 failed to qualify.Two drivers who represented Australia have won the World Drivers' Championship: Jack Brabham, who won it three times, and Alan Jones, the most recent Australian world champion won once.
The event was held at Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne for the 27th time in the circuit's history, across the weekend of 22–24 March. [4] The Grand Prix was the third round of the 2024 Formula One World Championship and the 87th running of the Australian Grand Prix. [5] [6]
Jack Brabham's youngest son, David, raced for the Formula One team for a short time in 1990 including the season-ending Australian Grand Prix (the first time a Brabham had driven a Brabham car in an Australian Grand Prix since 1968). 1990 was another disastrous year, with Modena's fifth place in the season-opening United States Grand Prix being ...