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Craig Tiley and Mecca founder Jo Horgan at the announcement last week of Mecca’s partnership with the Australian Open.

The shake-up coming to Melbourne’s major events calendar in 2026

Some of the country’s most beloved events are facing change next year.

  • Cara Waters

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McLaren CEO Zak Brown.

‘We’re realistic’: McLaren will use team orders if necessary to secure F1 title

Top team McLaren will impose team orders if necessary to secure the Formula 1 drivers’ title and deny Red Bull’s Max Verstappen a fifth in a row, chief executive Zak Brown has said.

Peter Goad, pictured last year, has been remembered as “one of a kind”.

‘A most unlikely subversive’: Save Albert Park activist dies aged 101

Peter Goad fought the Kennett, Bracks, Brumby, Baillieu, Napthine, Andrews and Allan governments over Albert Park hosting the Australian Grand Prix.

  • Stephen Brook, Kishor Napier-Raman and Karl Quinn
Aspiring F1 driver Alana Gurney is one of Australia’s top female karting talents.

‘I love beating the boys’: Inside Australia’s quest to produce the next female F1 driver

It’s been half a century since a woman started and raced in an F1 grand prix. Meet the Aussie drivers seeking to end that drought.

  • Hannah Kennelly
McLaren driver Oscar Piastri of Australia prepares for the third practice for the Azerbaijan Formula One Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

‘They try to make it too fair’: Steiner’s McLaren warning as he backs Piastri for world title

Formula 1 cult hero Guenther Steiner thinks Oscar Piastri will win this year’s driver’s title, but only if McLaren throw their full support behind him.

  • Roy Ward
Oscar Piastri drives for McLaren on Saturday, 15 March at Albert Park.

Opposition parties slam brakes on proposed grand prix change

A government decision to shelve a proposed extension of the Albert Park lockout may leave it in breach of its Formula 1 contract. 

  • Chip Le Grand
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Australian Oscar Piastri is leading the drivers’ standings and will start the Hungarian Grand Prix second on the grid behind Charles Leclerc.

Piastri wins Dutch GP, title push given massive boost as Norris’ race ends in heartbreak

Oscar Piastri has won the Dutch Grand Prix, while teammate Lando Norris failed to finish the race after engine trouble in Zandvoort.

  • Hannah Kennelly
The start of the Australian Grand Prix F1 at Albert Park last year.

‘They don’t care about us’: Australian Grand Prix ticket prices rise again

Four-day general admission tickets for the Australian Grand Prix have increased by 107 per cent over the last five years as Formula 1’s popularity continues to skyrocket.

  • Hannah Kennelly
Oscar Piastri is leading the F1 drivers standings.

Grandstand moment: F1 champ Oscar Piastri to get Albert Park honour

Australia’s Formula 1 star Oscar Piastri will have a grandstand named after him at Melbourne’s Albert Park street circuit.

  • Scott Spits
McLaren driver Oscar Piastri.

How ‘Papaya’ politics may decide Piastri’s F1 title hopes

The Australian driver is nine points clear at the top of the championship at the mid-season break, and only teammate Lando Norris stands between him and the title.

  • Hannah Kennelly and Billie Eder

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