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Jones: Melbourne cancellation 'a big blow for Aussie sport'

Former F1 driver Alan Jones, who won the F1 world championship with Williams in 1980, says nobody could have foreseen the events that led to the cancellation of the Australian Grand Prix. Jones was part of Australia's Channel 10 commentary team that witnessed on site at Albert Park the events that precipitated the scrapping of F1's season-opening race. The 12-time Grand Prix winner admitted to being hugely disappointed by the sudden turn of events, although he was in the camp of those that were in favour of keeping the race alive. McLaren team member quarantined in Oz now 'free of symptoms' "From my point of view, I would have gone ahead and done it anyway but you have to be sensible...
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