For many years, there was a large billboard on Dequetteville Terrace in Adelaide, one of the city’s major thoroughfares. It proclaimed that ‘Melbourne may have the Grand Prix, but Adelaide has the Pandas’. It was displayed in the years after the Formula One event was moved from South Australia to Melbourne in 1996, having been conducted in Adelaide for the previous eleven seasons.
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