Grand Prix Melbourne

Red Bull racing has been dominant so far in 2023, with Max Verstappen winning the first race of the year ahead of team mate Sergio Perez in Bahrain, and the ...

Last year, Charles Leclerc won the race for Ferrari. The Prancing Horse has won three of the last four Australian GPs. Most fans will already know the line-up for the Formula 1 drivers for the 2023 season but here is a recap of drivers starting in the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.

If Formula 1 racing is a sport with no margin for error, the same is true of the massive logistical operation that transforms Melbourne's Albert Park into ...

Dave Moreland, Avalon Airport’s chief of property, said it was a mad rush to unload the 930 tonnes of precious cargo as the clock ticked down. Construction on the 5.3-kilometre track started seven weeks ago, with close to 1000 semi-trailer loads moving fences, overpasses, signage, gantries and 3500 concrete track barriers from a storage site in Tottenham in Melbourne’s west. Organisers expect record capacity crowds of 130,000 on Saturday and Sunday. So the team were coming to me saying: where can we get another grandstand,” Walton said. Moreland said that within 30 minutes of the race finishing, organisers would be sending equipment back to Avalon to reload on the freighters ready to fly to the next race in Azerbaijan. The track equipment alone weighs 19,000 tonnes - the equivalent of moving the Eifel Tower - twice.