Poll: Australian Grand Prix 2022, Melbourne - Race 3

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Australia

When was the track built?

The deal to host Formula 1 in Melbourne was done in 1993, with the decision taken to create a circuit using a mixture of the existing roads around the city’s Albert Park – mainly Aughtie Drive and Lakeside Drive if you fancy driving it yourself – with a little detour through the Lakeside Stadium’s car park.

TV Times:



C4:
Saturday 9th April
AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX QUALIFYING HIGHLIGHTS at 11:00am

Sunday 10th
AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX RACE HIGHLIGHTS at 3:05pm


Track Diagram & Information




Weather Forecast




WDC Standings




Constructor's Championship Standings




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Race result



Thanks @Shimmy for your effort in these in the past.

 

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What I will say is I was at the race live and to a man/woman, every other British fan around me was laughing.

Silverstone ‘99. When Schumi stacked it, I think everyone who wasn’t wearing red was laughing and cheering.

 

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Were you there for that race? If so I’m very jealous!

Aye, my wife and I were there. We had seats on the start finish straight, almost right opposite the podium. It was a glorious day, we’d been up since stupid o’clock because we went in by coach and we’d had a couple of beers. With earplugs in, we both nodded off for a few minutes during the race itself!

But this is seriously OT, sorry.

 

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Latiffi is the new Grosjean.

Although it’s amusing to see how Grosjean is doing in Indy, watched the practise session just now and he was fastest.

Interestingly they’ve added an event note about SC restarts reminding drivers about erratic braking and accelerating and have gone so far as having “do” and “don’t” pictures of where you can place your car

I saw this was reported but haven’t seen the pictures. I notice that they’ve said no part of the car can be alongside the one in front which will disappoint Max.

 

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Max will deal with it, this verification of the rules is to prevent a repeat of what happened in Spain and nothing to do with Max.

Of course. That’s why it’s being called the ‘Verstappen Rule’ by commentators

 

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I missed their explanation of this. Is it now clear that cars have to run single file behind each other at the restart? Or were they saying something about not being alongside the front win or something? (Rear wing?). As I said all along what MV was doing was inherently dangerous, so I’m glad they’ve sorted it out.

Here you go, complete with diagrams of what’s acceptable and what isn’t.

https://www.motorsportweek.com/2022/04/09/fia-clarifies-restart-rules-amid-recent-verstappen-tactic/

 

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Let's just make F1 a spec series

So Indycar, more or less.

It’s a yawnfest.