Melbourne

Worth knowing

• Watch for

  Watch the last corner. It opens onto a long straight, so a driver close behind can set up a pass into Turn 1. Overtaking is hard in Melbourne, which makes this chance count.

• The roads

  This is a temporary track on public roads around Albert Park Lake. Traffic uses them for most of the year, so the surface starts the weekend bumpy and slippery.

• The old track

  The first races here, in the 1950s, ran anti-clockwise. When Formula 1 arrived in 1996, the lap went the other way.