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The 2011 Australian Grand Prix (formally the 2011 Formula 1 Qantas Australian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 27 March 2011 at the Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne. It was the 76th race in the combined history of the Australian Grand Prix that dates back to the 100 Miles Road Race of 1928. Originally planned as the second race of the 2011 Formula One season, it became the season opener with the cancellation of the Bahrain Grand Prix due to civil unrest in the country.

The race, "contested over 58 laps," was won by the reigning World Champion Sebastian Vettel, driving for Red Bull Racing, after starting from pole position. Lewis Hamilton finished second in a McLaren, and Renault's Vitaly Petrov completed the podium in third place, the first podium finish of his career and the first podium finish for a Russian national.

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• * Sergio Pérez (7th, + 1:05.845) and Kamui Kobayashi (8th, + 1:16.872) were disqualified post-race for a technical infringement – Saubers disqualified over technical infringement
• Friday Practice 1 – Webber leads Red Bull one-two in Australia
• Friday Practice 2 – McLaren's turn for a Melbourne one-two
• Saturday Practice – Vettel storms to the top
• Qualifying – Untouchable Vettel wows with Albert Park pole
• Race – Invincible Vettel wins with ease in Melbourne

The 1980 Spanish Grand Prix (formally the XXVI Gran Premio de Espana) was a Formula One motor race held on June 1, 1980 at Circuito Permanente del Jarama. Originally scheduled to be part of the 1980 Formula One World Championship, following the running of the race it was announced that World Championship points would not be awarded to the competitors, making it a non-championship race. The winner of the race was Alan Jones, driving for the Williams team. Jochen Mass finished second for Arrows and Elio de Angelis third for Team Lotus.

Owing to disputes as part of the FISA-FOCA war, the race went ahead without the teams of Ferrari, Alfa Romeo and Renault, because the Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile (FISA), then the governing body of Formula One, had declared the race illegal. The other teams drove the race, now sanctioned by the Formula One Constructors Association (FOCA). All teams competing in the race ran Ford engines.

Carlos Reutemann, Nelson Piquet and Didier Pironi all retired from the race whilst in the lead, Reutemann due to a collision and Pironi and Piquet because of mechanical problems. Only six of the twenty-two drivers who took the start of the race made it to the end. And only three were on the lead lap.

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• * Alonso (6th, + 37.248) and Hamilton (7th, + 49.957) were both given 20-second time penalties post-race. Alonso was given his for causing an avoidable collision, with Hamilton's for more than one change of direction while defending position – Hamilton and Alonso handed 20-second time penalties
• Friday Practice 1 – Webber sets strong Sepang standard
• Friday Practice 2 – McLaren keep Red Bull honest in Malaysia
• Saturday Practice – Hamilton moves ahead in Malaysia
• Qualifying – Vettel beats Hamilton to pole by a tenth
• Race – Vettel keeps cool to win Malaysian thriller

• * Petrov recorded no time after stopping on track in Q2.
• Friday Practice 1 – Red Bull rampant in China
• Friday Practice 2 – Vettel sets Shanghai standard
• Saturday Practice – Vettel top as Webber hits trouble
• Qualifying – Vettel storms to Shanghai pole
• Race – Hamilton takes sensational Shanghai win

Motor Racing Developments Ltd., commonly known as Brabham, was a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team. Founded in 1960 by two Australians, driver Jack Brabham and designer Ron Tauranac, the team won four drivers' and two constructors' world championships in its 30-year Formula One history. Jack Brabham's 1966 drivers' championship remains the only such achievement using car bearing the driver's own name.

In the 1960s, Brabham was the world's largest manufacturer of open wheel racing cars for sale to customer teams, and had built more than 500 cars by 1970. During this period, teams using Brabham cars won championships in Formula Two and Formula Three and competed in the Indianapolis 500. In the 1970s and 1980s, Brabham introduced innovations such as the "fan car"—which won its only race before being withdrawn—in-race refuelling, carbon brakes, and hydropneumatic suspension. The team won two more Formula One drivers' championships in the 1980s with Brazilian Nelson Piquet, and became the first to win a drivers' championship with a turbocharged car.

British businessman Bernie Ecclestone owned Brabham during most of the 1970s and 1980s, and later became responsible for administering the commercial aspects of Formula One. Ecclestone sold the team in 1988. Its last owner was the Middlebridge Group, a Japanese engineering firm. Midway through the 1992 season, the team collapsed financially as Middlebridge was unable to make repayments against loans provided by Landhurst Leasing. The case was investigated by the United Kingdom Serious Fraud Office. In 2009, an unsuccessful attempt was made by a German organisation to enter the 2010 Formula One season using the Brabham name.

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• * Massa recorded no time in Q3 as he did not attempt a run.
• Friday Practice 1 – Alonso tops wet Turkish session
• Friday Practice 2 – Button edges out Rosberg in Istanbul
• Saturday Practice – Vettel recovers in style
• Qualifying – Vettel eases to Istanbul Park pole
• Race – Vettel reigns supreme for Red Bull in Turkey

• * Schumacher recorded no time in Q3 as he did not attempt a run.
• Friday Practice 1 – Webber leads Vettel by a second in Spanish sun
• Friday Practice 2 – Webber again, but Hamilton splits the Red Bulls
• Saturday Practice – Vettel pips Webber at the post
• Qualifying – Webber bests Vettel to take Barcelona pole
• Race – Vettel holds off Hamilton for tense Spanish win

• – Total time includes time elapsed under red flag conditions.
• ‡ Hamilton (6th, + 27.210) was penalised 20 seconds post-race for causing an avoidable collision – Hamilton handed 20-second time penalty
• * Hamilton's best time was deleted after he was penalised for corner-cutting – Hamilton punished for cutting chicane
• † Pérez recorded no time in Q3 as he suffered an accident on his first run. He was later ruled out of the race due to a concussion – Perez to miss Monaco race after qualifying accident
• Thursday Practice 1 – Vettel sets the pace for Red Bull in Monaco
• Thursday Practice 2 – Alonso leads tight top three in Monaco
• Saturday Practice – Alonso tops disjointed Monaco session
• Qualifying – Vettel on pole in Monaco after Perez shunt
• Race – Vettel victorious in red-flagged Monaco thriller

The 1995 Brazilian Grand Prix (formally the XXIV Grande Prêmio do Brasil) was a Formula One motor race held on March 26, 1995 at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo, Brazil. It was the first round of the 1995 Formula One season. The race, contested over 71 laps, was won by Michael Schumacher for the Benetton team after starting from second position. David Coulthard finished second in a Williams, with Gerhard Berger third in a Ferrari. Damon Hill, who started the race from pole position, spun out while leading on lap 30 with an apparent gearbox problem, which was later found to be a suspension failure. Schumacher's win came despite Benetton encountering steering problems with his car during Friday practice, leading to him crashing heavily and necessitating steering component changes for the rest of the event. Despite Schumacher's victory, Hill proved to be faster during the race, and seemed to be on course for a comfortable victory before his sudden retirement.

Other notable performances came from Berger, who took the final podium position despite being delayed during one of his routine pit stops due to a problem with a loose wheel nut; Mika Häkkinen, who finished fourth for the McLaren team despite its new car proving to be uncompetitive in pre-season testing; and Mika Salo, who drove strongly in the first half of the race to run third in his first Grand Prix for the Tyrrell team, only to suffer from cramp and drop back to seventh place at the finish. Behind Häkkinen, the other points-scoring finishers were Jean Alesi in the second Ferrari and Mark Blundell, who drove the second McLaren. Blundell was standing in for regular driver Nigel Mansell in the second McLaren until the team could produce a wider chassis in which to accommodate him, as the car's initial cockpit design had proved to be too narrow for him to drive comfortably.

Several hours after the conclusion of the race, Schumacher and Coulthard were excluded from the race result as the chemical "fingerprint" of fuel samples from their cars taken after qualifying and the race did not match the specified sample lodged with the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) prior to the event. Berger was thus declared the winner. But the race stewards' decision to exclude them was overturned at an appeal hearing on April 13. Schumacher and Coulthard were reinstated in first and second places respectively, but the two teams did not receive their respective constructors' points. The Ferrari team was unhappy with the decision made at the appeal hearing; Berger called the sport "a joke". The rule concerning the legality of fuels had been changed for the 1995 season, as had the new standardised equipment used for refuelling during the race, the drivers' weighing-in procedure and the conditions of the drivers' racing licences; all of these changes produced controversies which at times threatened to overshadow the race, as did the excessively bumpy condition of the track. The race also marked the first Brazilian Grand Prix to take place since the death of Brazilian triple World Champion Ayrton Senna the previous year; his passing was commemorated in various ways throughout the event.

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