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F1 is gearing up for its first Saturday race in nearly four decades with the Las Vegas Grand Prix – in a break with the Sunday tradition – but it’s not always been the case of racing on a Sunday.
The last non-Sunday Grand Prix in Formula 1 was the 1985 South African Grand Prix held on Saturday, October 19, 1985. Nigel Mansell won the race for Williams, with Keke Rosberg and Alain Prost completing the podium. This was the 419th World Championship Grand Prix, and the upcoming Las Vegas Grand Prix will be the 1,100th race, with most of them held on Sundays. The Las Vegas race will start at 22:00 local time on Saturday, which is 01:00 on the US east coast and 06:00 in the UK on Sunday morning. The first two races of 2024 will also be on a Saturday due to Ramadan. However, Saturday races are not as rare as you might think, as the first World Championship Grand Prix at Silverstone in 1950 was held on a Saturday.
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