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The best way F1 can pay back Melbourne after 2020's aborted start

OPINION: Formula 1 is heading to a reconciling moment with this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix – the first since 2019 and two years on from the awful saga of the aborted 2020 race. It should be a moment of celebration and recognition for the championship’s supporters

It’s been two long years. We’ve all been through so much with the COVID-19 pandemic, it hardly seems helpful to mention it again. But we know just how tough it was, still is for some, and how much people yearned for escapism. That has always been a part of motorsport’s DNA, with Formula 1, as its top echelon, the most visible and valuable global series.

And all of that is worth considering when looking back to March 2020 and the last time an Australian Grand Prix was about to be staged. Then, the pandemic was just unfurling, with a hoped-for expectation it wouldn’t be as bad as it tragically became.

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