Life in the driver's seat for the 1996 Grand Prix is heating up, reports MICHAEL LYNCH IN THE brief, nine-month period she has been in the driver's seat as chief executive of the Australian Grand Prix Corporation, Judith Griggs has had to face more controversy, protests, criticism and interference than most CEO's run into in a nine year period.

Then again, most chief executives do not run businesses - in this case a statutory corporation - with the profile of the outfit Griggs controls.