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After half a decade of almost-full grids finishing the race at Melbourne due to exceptional reliability, the opening round of 2008 saw barely five cars make it to the finish. Richard Barnes analyses the impact of the Australian GP on the championship
Each new season, as the Formula One circus rumbles into Melbourne for the traditional opening weekend of the calendar, the championship outsiders arrive with the hope that Australia may prove to be their most rewarding race of the campaign.
With the favourites still adjusting to new technical regulations and pushing the envelope to gain a flying start to the championship, technical failures and driver errors always threaten to thin out the field rapidly.
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