With women flocking to Formula One, expectations are growing that the sport address its challenges with integrity and inclusion
Two victories and three pole positions into season 2024 and the experts have all but handed the title to defending champion Max Verstappen. Meanwhile, the lawyers have descended on Formula One like never before.
But to the swathes of motorsport fans squeezed into the leafy Albert Park track in Melbourne, these intercontinental ructions meant little. Instead, on this mild Saturday, tens of thousands of them streamed, bobbed and weaved towards the main stage adjacent to the lake.