The start times of five Grands Prix, including Australia, Malaysia and Japan, have been brought forward by an hour in the 2015 season.

In a document detailing session times for the 20-race season released by Formula One Management, the events in Australia, Malaysia, China, Japan and Russia all have their races listed with local start times 60 minutes earlier than last year.

Over recent years, races in Asia, along with the season-opener in Australia, have been scheduled to start in mid to late afternoon slots in order to be more convenient for F1’s core European television audience.

However, change has been afoot since the Accident Panel looking into Jules Bianchi’s accident in last October’s rain-hit Japanese GP recommended that, excluding bespoke night races, the start time of an event “shall not be less than four hours before either sunset or dusk”.

Malaysian GP chiefs indicated last week that they had discussed with Bernie Ecclestone the possibility of their race returning to a 3pm slot from 4pm, and that one-hour shift has duly been confirmed on the FOM list.

The first three rounds will start an hour earlier than in 2014 with Australia moved forward to 4pm from 5pm local time and China’s event also moved, from 3pm to 2pm local.

September’s Japanese GP is also now listed to start at 2pm, as will the following race in Russia in a move previously announced by Sochi organisers last week.

UK start times for the 2015 F1 season – every race live on Sky Sports F1

Australia: 5am

Malaysia: 8am

China: 7am

Bahrain: 4pm

Spain: 1pm

Monaco: 1pm

Canada: 7pm

Austria: 1pm

Great Britain: 1pm

Germany: 1pm

Hungary: 1pm

Belgium: 1pm

Italy: 1pm

Singapore: 1pm

Japan: 6am

Russia: 12pm

United States: 7pm

Mexico: 7pm

Brazil: 4pm

Abu Dhabi: 1pm