A three-year wait, a wildly popular Netflix series, and perfect skies combined on Sunday to deliver a Melbourne grand prix that organisers say drew more spectators than any race weekend in the sport’s history.
Australian Daniel Ricciardo, starting from his best grid position in Melbourne since 2015, spent most of the race behind his teammate, the mercurial British youngster Lando Norris. He finished sixth – ahead of pre-race expectations given the slowness of his car in the first two races of the season. “I was just talking to a couple of guys before who had flown down from Queensland. That’s what this is all about – bringing people into Melbourne.”The figure of 420,000 people includes those who attended for more than one day, who are therefore counted more than once.
But the racing chief said the weekend went off without major issues and argued the race was a jewel in Melbourne’s major events crown. “Every eye [was] on Albert Park, every eye [was] on Melbourne,” he said.Signage on the Heineken-branded footbridge overhanging the track’s main straight, which featured prominently in the television broadcast viewed by tens of millions worldwide showed a message of welcoming Melbourne back.
420,000 with penis anxieties?
The Age HATES Victorians.
LOL but.... what about the state of emergency!?!