What happened to Ferrari last weekend? Which Australians are driving an MGB GT the 13,700km from Peking through Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Poland to Paris.
First up, Valtteri Viktor Bottas, 29, of Monte Carlo won last week's St Kilda Grand Prix by about three years from Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton MBE, 34, of Stevenage.
Another year behind was Max Verstappen, who is about three years old, followed by Seb Vettel, 31, and Chuck Leclerc, who is also about three. Both were five years behind. So what happened to Hamo? Too much tyre squirt. No, I didn't make it up. He lost the corner off his floor and that meant too much airflow from the tyre and a lively rear end.
Val is a lance corporal in the Finnish army and his mother is an undertaker (in private practice, not the army). He had a bad season last year — no wins — and some critics wondered out loud why Mercedes had signed him for 2019.
But the toughest of all is the 2019 Peking to Paris Rally. There are 120 cars, 17 Australians, 36 days of fun and Belgian architects Anton Gonnissen and Herman Gelan in a 112-year-old three-wheel Contal Mototri.