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Formula 1 2016 season to start later

The season opening Australian Grand Prix has been pushed back two weeks in 2016, organisers have announced. The race on 3 April will mean the latest start to a Formula 1 season since 1988, when the Brazilian GP was held on the same date. Organisers of the race in Melbourne's Albert Park said the event would have an earlier start time than recently. Moving the event back will compress the F1 calendar, which in 2015 has a number of large gaps between races. Most noticeable among these are three weeks between the most recent race in Bahrain and the next in Spain on 10 May. And as a result of the cancellation of the German race on 17 July, only one grand prix - the Hungarian on 26 July - takes...
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