The loss of the Malaysian round was offset by the return of the French Grand Prix.
This was despite the Malaysian Grand Prix dropping off the calendar at the end of 2017. Paul Ricard was added to the 2018 F1 calendarFollowing the 20-round 2017 championship, the 2018 F1 calendar was scheduled to include one more race. March 25’s season-opening Australian GP will commence at 4.10pm AEST with the year’s first qualifying session held from 5pm AEDT the day before.The 2018 F1 calendar was first revealed on June 19th, 2017, and featured 21 races. The Bahrain GP, usually a “twilight” race, on April 8 will start at a local time of 6.10pm (2.10am AEST on April 9), approximately 15 minutes after sunset, while the Brazilian GP has also been moved back an hour. The qualifying sessions for all of those races will also move from their traditional 10pm slot to 11pm. Moving to a new slot, the Spanish, Monaco, Austrian, British, German, Hungarian, Belgian and Italian GPs between May and September will all begin at 11.10pm AEST. The French Grand Prix, returning to the F1 calendar after a decade-long absence, will start at 12.10am AEST on June 25, thereby avoiding a clash with England’s second World Cup game which kicks off at 10pm AEST on June 24.
In a radical rewriting of the schedule, this season’s races will start at 10 minutes past the hour with all of the European races moved back at least 70 minutes from their traditional 1pm UK timeslot (10pm AEST). F1 RACES in 2018 will start at 10 minutes past the hour with the Bahrain GP becoming a full night race and the French GP scheduled for a late-afternoon start that avoids a clash with England vs Panama in football’s World Cup.
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