Amid last weekend's terrible weather at Phillip Island, there were calls by some to have the date of the Australian MotoGP race moved to March. Andrew van Leeuwen explains why that would be a bad idea. In Australia, Melbourne is famous for trams, great coffee, and crappy weather. The city's two most famous cliches are 'four seasons in one day', and 'if you don't like the weather, wait five minutes'. Unfortunately they are as true as they are unimaginative. Each and every day it might be eight degrees and raining, but it might also break 40 and melt the giant metal Ferris Wheel in Docklands (look it up). Phillip Island cops it even worse. Being 140-off kilometres south of the Victorian...
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