After two years of being the season curtain raiser, Melbourne is set to be bumped back in the Formula One calendar in 2027.<\/p>\n
Australia was always the opening Grand Prix of the season between 1995 and 2019 before being replaced by Bahrain.<\/p>\n
In recent years the dates of Ramadan have seen round 1 return to Australia but the holy festival will not clash with the start of the 2027 calendar meaning Bahrain will be reinstated as the season opener slated for March 14.<\/p>\n
According to reports, Australia will host the third race of the season on the weekend of April 4 with Saudi Arabia second.<\/p>\n
The 2027 calendar will also see the return to racing in Turkey with the Grand Prix in Istanbul contracted to remain on the roster until 2031.<\/p>\n
F1 returns this weekend in Miami after an unscheduled five week break.<\/p>\n
The ongoing conflict in the Middle East forced organisers to cancel the Bahrain and Saudi Arabia races.<\/p>\n
It means drivers have not competed since Kimi Antonelli won the Japanese Grand Prix on March 29.<\/p>\n
The young Italian, who drives for Mercedes, leads the title race by nine points from George Russell.<\/p>\n
Oscar Piastri will be looking to put a miserable opening two races behind him. The Aussie did not start in Melbourne or China before securing second place in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After two years of being the season curtain raiser, Melbourne is set to be bumped back in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-635536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}