Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit meetings: As of 25 March 2018. Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit The Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit is a street circuit around Albert Park Lake, only a few kilometres south of central Melbourne. It is used annually as a racetrack for the Formula One Australian Grand Prix, Supercars Championship Melbourne 400 and associated support races. The circuit has FIA Grade 1 licence. In spite of being a circuit on public roads it has characteristics of a natural road course considering it being fast and flowing combined with extensive runoff in many corners. The current contract for the Grand Prix at the circuit
1970 Formula One season at the Kyalami circuit between Johannesburg and Pretoria. Jack Brabham won the race in a Brabham BT33. The Spanish Grand Prix took place on the Jarama circuit. The defending champion Jackie Stewart won in a March 701. The Monaco Grand Prix ended in a close finish. At the last corner of the last lap, Jack Brabham skidded off the track, allowing Austrian Jochen Rindt in a Lotus 49 to pass and win the race. Formula One had recently lost one of its top drivers: Bruce McLaren had been killed testing a Can-Am car at the Goodwood circuit in southern England.