{"id":16034,"date":"2024-04-12T13:44:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T13:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/formula-1-australian-grand-prix-to-return-as-season-opener-in-2025\/"},"modified":"2024-04-12T13:44:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T13:44:34","slug":"formula-1-australian-grand-prix-to-return-as-season-opener-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/formula-1-australian-grand-prix-to-return-as-season-opener-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1: Australian Grand Prix to return as season opener in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The Australian Grand Prix will return to its traditional position as the first race of the new season in 2025.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Melbourne, which will host the race weekend from 14-16 March, had held the first race virtually every year since it made its debut in 1996.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it has not done so since 2019 after the Covid-19 pandemic led to Bahrain taking over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The timing of the holy month of Ramadan means the races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have had to be delayed in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Melbourne will be followed by races in China and Japan before the two events in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is the first of four times when Melbourne is contractually guaranteed to host the opening race until 2032. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2025 calendar features the same 24 races as this year&#8217;s record-breaking season, in a very similar order other than the opening events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The British Grand Prix at Silverstone will be on 4-6 July and the season will end in Abu Dhabi on 5-7 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">F1 chairman and chief executive officer Stefano Domenicali, whose responsibility it is to organise the calendar, said: &#8220;2025 will be a special year as we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship, and it&#8217;s that legacy and experience that allows us to deliver such a strong calendar. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Once again, we&#8217;ll visit 24 incredible venues around the world, delivering top class racing, hospitality, and entertainment, which will be enjoyed by millions of fans worldwide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/formula1\/68797430\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Grand Prix will return to its traditional position as the first race of the new season in 2025. Melbourne, which will host the race weekend from 14-16 March, had held the first race virtually every year since it made its debut in 1996. But it has not done so since 2019 after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16036,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16034\/revisions\/16036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}