December 2024
Why Emirates dropped F1, Melbourne Cup to go all in on tennis
Emirates will sponsor the Australian Open for another five years at least in a deal thought to be worth $35 million, as the airline’s head of marketing reveals the real reason it dropped other sporting fixtures.
- Patrick Durkin
November 2024
Grand prix has cost Victoria nearly $700m in the last decade
This year’s grand prix held at Melbourne’s Albert Park enjoyed a record attendance but cost a record $102.3 million to run.
- Gus McCubbing and Zoe Samios
July 2024
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- Funding
Construction start-up lands mega $105m deal
Melbourne software company HammerTech has landed a $105 million investment from Californian private equity shop Riverwood Capital.
- Tess Bennett
The most expensive mistake in sports history
Mercedes’ decision to introduce a radical new design into Formula 1 may have cost the company $1 billion.
- Jonathan Clegg and Joshua Robinson
March 2024
How the McLaren F1 team is helping save the Great Barrier Reef
British Formula One race team McLaren deployed engineers to help the Great Barrier Reef Foundation speed up its coral spawning program.
- Mark Ludlow
Supermarket break-up risk; Macquarie’s warning; How educated are MPs?
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Ferrari upsets as who’s who flock to the Australian Grand Prix
Ferrari clinched first and second as a bevy of business leaders, billionaires and celebrities watched Australian rookie Oscar Piastri finish fourth.
- Tom Burton and Patrick Durkin
Sainz wins drama-filled F1 as Ferrari storm podium
Carlos Sainz won his first Australian Grand Prix after Max Verstappen suffered a dramatic car fire early in the race.
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- Oliver Caffrey
Percat wins as Payne’s pain continues at Albert Park
Nick Percat has claimed his first Supercars win in four years in Melbourne as rookie Matt Payne’s nightmare weekend continued.
- Joanna Guelas
Verstappen secures pole as local hope Piastri impresses
Max Verstappen has his sights set on a third-straight win to open 2024. The defending Formula 1 world champion has claimed pole for the Australian Grand Prix.
- Oliver Caffrey
Potential and pressure for Australian F1 drivers
Oscar Piastri will join Daniel Ricciardo on the Melbourne grid this year, marking the first time since 2013 that two Australians have raced in the same grand prix.
- Oliver Caffrey
Good luck finding a table: How F1 gave Melbourne its mojo back
Melbourne’s premium hotels and restaurants are near or at capacity this weekend ahead of the Australian Grand Prix, which is enjoying a boom as women and young people stream in.
- Patrick Durkin
How missing AFL’s top job drove the F1 Grand Prix CEO
Travis Auld, the former AFL chief financial officer-turned F1 GP chief executive, has big plans for the race to go more female and family friendly, to help attract record crowds.
- Patrick Durkin
- Driving With Tony Davis
- Life & Leisure
‘This is how I do it’: Oscar Piastri takes us on a hot lap of Albert Park
On the eve of the 2024 Australian Grand Prix, the young Australian F1 star takes us through every straight and every corner of the Melbourne circuit. Strap yourself in.
- Tony Davis
Why Formula 1’s fuel is going green
Pat Symonds wrote the rules that will compel Formula 1 cars to run on carbon-neutral fuel from 2026. Big oil companies are now racing to find solutions.
- Peter Ker
September 2023
Satellites that can see through smoke to fight fires this summer
Using Australian locational and building data from Geoscape Finnish satellites will give emergency responders near real-time intelligence on damage and fire path warnings across the country.
- Tom Burton
July 2023
Paul Little’s intriguing Grand Prix departure
For reasons that remain unclear to even his close associates, the respected business leader is out at the Grand Prix, with no replacement yet announced.
- Myriam Robin
April 2023
Max Verstappen wins Melbourne F1 race in front of record crowd
Max Verstappen has won the Formula One Australian Grand Prix for Red Bull in a dramatic race that saw four red flags and eight drivers fail to finish.
- Euan Black
March 2023
Oscar Piastri is back at an Australian GP in a far different role
Australia’s new FI hope Oscar Piastri has finished mid-field in the first practice session.
- Courtney Walsh
- Exclusive
- Formula 1
The Melbourne tech company behind race-winning strategies in Formula 1
The software ingests up to 50,000 different streams of telemetry data from the cars and drivers, and combines it with live weather reports, video feeds and track data, to model and predict the outcome of different race tactics.
- Patrick Durkin