Melbourne and F1 have done their best to improve the show on the track for this week's Australian Grand Prix, tweaking the Albert Park layout and relying on four DRS zones to boost overtaking. F1 returns to Australia for the first time since 2019, having avoided Melbourne for two years due to the country's Covid restrictions. But drivers will return to an altered circuit, starting with the former Turn 9-10 chicane that has been heavily revised. The tight right hand Turn 9 corner has been completely erased and replaced by a fast sweep that will lead on to the slightly curved back straight. Read also: Brown suggests 30 venues for F1, but rotating races Elsewhere, there have been radius...
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