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Red Bull's world champion Max Verstappen suffered "deja vu" with another retirement.
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Leclerc saved his best for last, posting a flying lap of one minute 17.868 seconds, to be nearly three-tenths of a second quicker than Dutchman Verstappen. It was the Monagesque's 11th career pole and second of the season.
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The four-time world champion Vettel will make his season debut at the Australian Grand Prix on April 10.
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Formula One postponed the Australian Grand Prix from March to November because it would not have been possible for hundreds of team staff to quarantine for 14 days upon their arrival.
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The ground-breaking tournament attracted an overall attendance of more than 1,36,000 people to 23 matches in six host cities around the country.
It culminated in a crowd of 86,174 at the final between Australia and India at the MCG on March 8, a record attendance for a women's sporting event in Australia.
The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup will be held in Australia in 2022 after the event, originally scheduled for October-November 2020, was postponed due to COVID-19.
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Earlier, races in Australia and Monaco were cancelled and every race up to the French Grand Prix on June 28 was postponed.
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As a result, the French Grand Prix becomes the 10th race of the season to get cancelled or postponed due to COVID-19.
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The Australian opener on March 15 was cancelled and every race up to the French Grand Prix on June 28 has been postponed so far.
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The 16 members of the McLaren Racing team have returned to their home in United Kingdom after spending two weeks in self-isolation in Australia.
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Amid coronavirus outbreak across the world, Formula One has confirmed that this weekend’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne has been cancelled.
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The Chinese Grand Prix, which was slated to take place in April, has been postponed while Bahrain Grand Prix will go ahead as per schedule but without spectators.
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With this year's season-opening Australian Grand Prix, the 29-year-old ended his one-year winless streak before also making a podium finish in Azerbaijan and grabbing four pole positions in 2019.
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Australia is part of the motor-sport history as the country has been hosting Formula 1 World Championship since 1985.
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The five times world champion started on pole position but finished second in Melbourne last Sunday after Finnish team-mate Valtteri Bottas seized the lead off the line and went on to win by 20 seconds.
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Starting second behind pole-sitter Hamilton, Bottas got the jump on the Briton during a typically messy start at Albert Park and ended up cruising to his fourth win by some 20.80 seconds after delaying a tyre-change.
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Britain`s youngest F1 driver claimed the eighth spot on the grid for Sunday`s race.
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Hamilton`s lap was more than seven-tenths of a second quicker than chief rival Sebastian Vettel, a year after the Briton left a similar gap to Ferrari when taking pole at the season-opener.
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The former Red Bull driver will line up 12th, alongside German team-mate Nico Hulkenberg in 11th, on the sixth row for the Formula One season-opener in Melbourne.
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Vettel`s rookie teammate Charles Leclerc was third fastest, 0.074 seconds slower than Hamilton, raising hopes of a proper battle between the championship`s leading teams.
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The British team`s decision follows that of Ferrari to drop Philip Morris branding for their "Mission Winnow" initiative at Albert Park, citing problems with Australia`s health authorities.
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