
Bernie Ecclestone, the leader of Formula One Management, the gathering that runs current Formula One related to the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), when broadly said that it took 10 minutes to do the arrangement with Melbourne that would see the Victorian capital host the Australian Grand Prix from 1996. It is felt that Melbourne's unsuccessful journey to organize the 1996 Olympic Games, and the along these lines fruitful offered by northern adversary city Sydney to have the 2000 Summer Olympics, was a main thrust behind Melbourne's inspiration to wrest the Australian Grand Prix far from Adelaide. The Australian Grand Prix at Adelaide from 1985– 1995 was dependably the last occasion in the Formula One timetable however from 1996 onwards, it was typically the principal occasion or right off the bat in the season.
Albert Park, inside simple reach of the Melbourne focal business region, ended up home to the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne. A 16-turn circuit, which estimates 5.3 kilometers in its present pretense, was constructed using a blend of open streets and a vehicle leave inside the recreation center. The circuit is prestigious just like a smooth and fast test for Formula One groups and drivers. Its qualities are like the main other road circuit set in an open park utilized in the Formula One World Championship, the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal which has the Canadian Grand Prix. The limited time subject for the principal race in Melbourne was "Melbourne – What a Great Place for the Race". About 401,000 individuals turned out for the main race in 1996, which remains a record for the occasion. The coordinations of making an impermanent circuit and facilitating an occasion of the extent of a Formula One Grand Prix without any preparation weren't lost on the universal guests, with Melbourne winning the F1 Constructors' Association Award for the best composed Grand Prix of the year in its initial two years of 1996 and 1997.

It took only three corners for the Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park to increase overall consideration. On the primary lap of the main race in 1996, Jordan's Martin Brundle was propelled into the air in a colossal mishap. Film of the accident, and Brundle's consequent surge back to the pits to take the extra vehicle for the restart, guaranteed the primary race in Melbourne increased boundless inclusion. The race was won by Williams' Damon Hill.
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