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2016 F1 opener originally scheduled for April 10th
The 2016 Formula 1 season was originally set to get underway on April 10th, according to McLaren, despite this year's expanded schedule featuring a record-breaking 21 events. Though the F1 programme has swelled gradually in recent years, 2016 will see two more events added to the erstwhile schedule, with Germany returning and Azerbaijan debuting with a race around the streets of its capital city Baku. Indeed, the original draft of the calendar – which was leaked in June and approved in July – had the curtain raising Australian Grand Prix down as taking place on April 1-3, two weeks later that usual. As a result - with the season ending at a similar point to that of 2015 in Abu Dhabi -...
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