For the first time ever in Formula 1, two races are taking place on the same track in the same season and that's not the only unusual feature, as the second one is just one week after the first. From the 33rd Austrian Grand Prix, we now have the first Styrian Grand Prix, with the same circuit and its ten corners in a short 4.318 kilometres. That means something new for the engineers, who can effectively rely on a whole mass of data from the previous weekend. For the first time, a round of the Formula 1 World Championship is named after a region, although non-championship races have been named in this way, such as the Grand Prix de la Bourgogne, held first in 1946 and the Natal Grand Prix...
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