It’s been two long years. We’ve all been through so much with the COVID-19 pandemic, it hardly seems helpful to mention it again. But we know just how tough it was, still is for some, and how much people yearned for escapism. That has always been a part of motorsport’s DNA, with Formula 1, as its top echelon, the most visible and valuable global series. And all of that is worth considering when looking back to March 2020 and the last time an Australian Grand Prix was about to be staged. Then, the pandemic was just unfurling, with a hoped-for expectatio …