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The 2020 Austrian Grand Prix: a statistician and historian’s breakdown
The 2020 Austrian Grand Prix saw this year’s Formula 1 World Championship finally burble into life last weekend, almost 4 months after its originally scheduled start. It is the first part of an Austrian double-header, with the Styrian Grand Prix scheduled to take place at the same location this weekend. This will be the first time that the same circuit has ever hosted two Formula 1 races within the same calendar year. Or, at least, on different weekends within the same calendar year: the 1959 German Grand Prix at AVUS was decided by the aggregation of the results from two 30-lap heats during a single race meeting. The Finn…