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Lando Norris drives his McLaren to victory in a rain-soaked Melbourne Grand Prix. Picture: Getty Images

It was bigger than a footy player’s night out in Bali. A Melbourne Monsoon. There were 444,631 persons in real life and about a billion more watching on Kayo. The first GP in world history to have three red flags. Six drivers deciding to stop for a ciggie. A bloke who just got ...


Red Bull’s Max Verstappen gets in a practise lap on the Melbourne circuit on Friday. Picture: David Caird

Behind the scenes of tomorrow’s F1 season opener in the Albert Park Arena there’s more drama playing out than in any episode of the Real Housewives of Azerbaijan. It’s not just the Mercedes and Ferrari flexi-wing scandals or Mad Max’s frustrations. A far more existential crisis...


You can download apps to find the location of EV charging stations near you. Picture: Getty Images

New figures show that sales of electric vehicles are going down faster than my enthusiasm for Dry July by July 2. “We are now two months into the government’s New Vehicle Efficiency Standard and, while the supply of battery electric vehicles has risen dramatically, consumer dem...


Ferrari F1 driver Lewis Hamilton makes a pitstop during day one of testing at Bahrain International Circuit this week. Picture: Getty Images

The world’s most profitable car company wants to be a handbag company. Ferrari makes 13,752 cars a year, yet it’s the seventh largest carmaker by market cap: $110bn vs General Motors at $80bn, Stellantis at $85bn and BMW at $95bn. General Motors made six million cars. Stellanti...


Ed Craven, left, and Bijan Tehrani founded online casino Stake and have invested some of their $4.2bn into the Sauber F1 team. Picture: Julian Kingman

It’s green light on and the bunny’s away at 1pm next month on the bumpy streets of Aughtie and Lakeside Drives, Albert Park, the Logan City of Victoria. Only one team, Aussie owned, has had a porn actress as part of its marketing. Only one team, has a woke, anti-petrol Australi...


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The Ferrari 962 250 GTO S1.

A Jeep Grand Cherokee is the subject of a massive recall by Chrysler in the US.

Crowds booed when the auctioneer stopped bids for the 1969 Porsche 917k. Picture: Supplied

The ex-Steve McQueen, Jerry Seinfeld Porsche 917K – the “Hero Car” from the 1971 film Le Mans and one of the most recognisable race cars in all of history and what would have been the most expensive Porsche ever, failed to sell at auction last weekend despite a $40m bid. Billed...


The Batmobile from Barrett Jackson auctions.

The 1955 Ferrari 250 Europa GT.

Trumpy is right. Of course, the land of the free should take back the Panama Canal, Canada (which was really part of the US till the soap dodgers flooded it with their even more unwashed) and Greenland (anthem: The Land of Great Length) which the septics have been trying to buy s...


An electric car being manufactured at VW’s plant in Zwickau, eastern Germany. Picture: AFP

Drive an Audi, Seat, Skoda or Volkswagen and been up to funny business? Then you’re in deep doo-doo. Our friends (freunde) at Germany’s best-selling news mag, Der Spiegel (The Mirror), have explosively revealed that leaked data has shown the precise locations of about 800,000 V...

Sydney D'Elegance 2024

John Connolly Motoring Columnist

You’re here because you read Motoring in The Weekend Australian or you made a mistake and were looking for an important John Connolly. Either way, this is really the overflow section of my column, so you will be able to read the latest out of date car news, see lots of photos of cars and merry go rounds that you will never be able to afford and some travel reviews that include some of the worst bars and cafes in the world. Just what you need to help you through the day if you can’t afford the alternative. John [email protected] 

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