Yes readers, the 2022 Soapdodger Grand Prix last Sunday was way better than the season one finale of Love Island. You remember on 15 July 2015 when Jess Hayes and left handed batsman, Max Morely, stole the series, with Hannah Elizabeth and Jon Clark, 32, of Essex, as runners-up. These days, Hannah is a proud mummy to baby Reggie. She's still modelling and also runs a crystal healing class.

No crystal healing classes needed for Chilli Sainz who drove his Feezer to a great win over Red Bull's Checo Perez with the Hamster driving brilliantly to take second of the losers. But what had the most eyeballs was Zhou Guanyu, 23, of Shanghai, China, surviving a 200kmh bump from Merc's Georgie Russell that put Zhou's Alfa on its roof (if it had one) and skidding over the tyre barrier into the gap between the wire fence and the spectators. Many thought he must have been brown bread including Georgie who jumped out of his Merc and ran to help. But thanks to the Halo — "a wishbone-shaped titanium bar that sits on top of the cockpit of the car and wraps around the driver's head" — Zhou was fine. Although it is the kind of thing he'll remember for a while.

Then in a scene that would even look fake on Love Island, seven protesters from Just Stop Oil, the Extinction Rebellion-linked group, jumped the fence and sat on the main straight. To paraphrase The Daily Telegraph's Clarissa Bye, they "are just foot soldiers in the cargo cult of the mindless green movement that has our cars and freedoms in its sights." Naturally the Bobbies arrested them and charged all with gross stupidity.

The whole delayed spectacle was more exciting than Drive to Survive season two, episode six, Raging Bulls. Talking of Bulls, today the whole circus happens again at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria. Why is it called the RBR? Because you drink so much of the stuff that Red Bull's owner, Dietrich Mateschitz, bought the 53-year old track, renamed it and talked the FIA into putting an annual F1 race there.

And while Danny R still has car problems our other Australian team dominated Sunday's Indy 200. The east coast's Scotty McLaughlin, 29, of Hamilton, NZ, won, with Will Power, 41, of Toowoomba, Australia, third and Scott Dixon, 41, of Brisbane fifth.

And in even better news, we have found the person in charge of the ACCC and he is a car person. Be still all our beating hearts. Andrew Leigh, 49, formerly of Sydney but now of Pleasantville, ACT is Assistant Minister Competition, Charities (car makers) and Treasury. Andy just announced that car manufacturers now have to share technical information with independent mechanics on commercially fair and reasonable terms. That means, Andy says and I'm paraphrasing here, that Australians can get their car fixed at a Kmart, a JAX, an Ultra Tune, a Bridgestone or a Pedders — or, indeed, at a non-chain mechanic. Automotive Service and Repair Authority Limited Company Secretary, Stuart Charity said: "on behalf of 27,000 independent mechanical workshops right across Australia, plus many more collision repair workshops, this really is a game changing moment for us".