There will be 23 grands prix held, starting in Australia on 21 March and ending in Abu Dhabi on 6 December. Plans for the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne to be held in an ‘F1 biosphere’ are already under way. Saudi Arabia will make its debut with a street race in Jeddah as the penultimate grand prix of the year on 28 November. Vietnam’s inaugural race in April was a casualty of the pandemic, as the first 10 races of the season were all postponed or cancelled. F1 had announced plans for the Brazilian Grand Prix to be held at a new track in Rio De Janeiro in 2021, but the project ran into trouble and a new five-year deal has been signed for the race to continue in Sao Paulo until 2025.

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