This year’s Melbourne race was cancelled after a McLaren team member tested positive for coronavirus. But Australian GP Corporation chairman Andrew Westacott said: “Melbourne will again host the F1 season opener in the traditional March time slot.”. Westacott said the 2021 calendar would be published “in the coming weeks”. Melbourne organisers are understood to have a go-ahead from the Australian government to host the race in March and to allow fans. The state of Victoria, of which Melbourne is the capital, recorded only one new infection on Tuesday, and its premier Daniel Andrews said it may actually have been a day of no new infections because the only positive case was from an individual who had previously tested positive.

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