Sports / Motor Racing
Australia loses out to Bahrain on calendar
(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-07-24 08:39
The Australian Grand Prix has lost its place as the first race on the
Formula One calendar to Bahrain, organisers of the Albert Park event said
on Monday.
The Australian Grand Prix Corporation (AGPC) announced that the March 16
race in Melbourne would be the second race on the 2008 calendar and would
start at 1530 local time to cater for European television audiences.
"Bahrain will stage the first race," a spokesman for the AGPC told
Reuters.
"Taking all factors into account, this is the best option for our event
and the people who support it," Ron Walker, chairman of the AGPC, told
reporters.
He said the AGPC would not be pursuing the idea of hosting a night race.
"Our investigations have convinced us that as things currently stand, the
disadvantages outweigh the advantages."
The street circuit at Albert Park has hosted the first race of every
Formula One Grand Prix season since 1996 except the 2006 event, which was
put back to the third in the calendar because the city was hosting the
Commonwealth Games.
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