Organisers of the Australian Grand Prix are targeting mid-March for next season’s event, as to avoid a clash with the start of the AFL (Australian Football League). Australia has become a tradition in Formula 1 to open the season and this year’s Grand Prix weekend stretched from the 24th-26th of March.

With Liberty Media already announcing that the calendar for next year will contain 21 races, it equals the record for the most races in a championship season, which we first saw in 2016. After Germany dropped off the calendar for 2017, it will be back next season along with a refurbished French Grand Prix.

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