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Australia set for opening round until 2020

– Australian Grand Prix officials say that the race around the Albert Park Street Circuit in Melbourne will host the first round of the campaign until at least 2020.Since the race moved from Adelaide to Melbourne, only in 2006 and 2010 has the city not hosted the season-opening round, when that honour fell to Bahrain.Australian Grand Prix Corporation Chief Executive Officer Andrew Westacott says that the circuit's new contract – which runs from 2016 to 2020 – stipulates that it will be the first round of the year."We have clauses in there about [being] the first race of the season," Westacott told Fairfax Media."The requirement that it be the first race is...
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