Formula 1 is beginning the final stretch of the 2020 campaign and the next two grands prix will take place in Bahrain - but on different circuit layouts. The championship's first voyage to the island nation, the name of which derives from the Arabic for ‘two seas', took place in 2004 and since then the Bahrain International Circuit has twice held the honor of opening the season. In 2014 it switched to a twilight event, with floodlights lining the complex, and for 2020 it was set to hold the season's second round, just a week after the planned Australian opener. But the coronavirus pandemic forced a total restructure and Bahrain will instead host two events as Rounds 15 and 16 of the...
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