MOTORSPORT: Oz Grand Prix later next year
Still the F1 season opener but it's moving to AprilMelbourne's grand prix will be held later next year, still opening a condensed Formula One World Championship – but clashing more with Australia's major football codes, AFL and rugby league.
The Australian Grand Prix Corporation today announced that its F1 race next year will be on April 3 rather than the traditional mid-March.
The only other time the race was in April was in 2006, when it was moved to avoid a clash with Melbourne's Commonwealth Games.
Ron Walker's20-year reign as AGPC chairman officially ended yesterday, but there is uncertainty over his successor.
A year ago Walker "anointed" his deputy John Harnden for the position. Harnden, a former chief executive of the AGPC and more recently the Commonwealth Games and cricket World Cup boss, is now acting chairman.
However, former Toll logistics company supremo Paul Little, the president of the Essendon AFL club which was embroiled in a supplements saga for two years, has put his hand up to head the GP board.
Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has said an announcement will be made soon.
Little owned a V8 Supercar team years ago, with Anthony Tratt as his driver, and has long supported Holden Racing Team and describes himself as a keen F1 fan.
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