Ben Waterworth

3 weeks ago | theroar.com.au | Ben Waterworth

On a sunny afternoon in Melbourne in March 1999, a 28-year-old Spaniard drove a Formula 1 car 57 times around the Albert Park circuit to finish an impressive sixth place on his F1 debut. That driver was Pedro de la Rosa, and that race was the start of a long journey in the top flight of motorsport that has seen him drive and work for seven different teams as a race driver, test driver and team ambassador.

3 weeks ago | theroar.com.au | Ben Waterworth

A lot can happen in Formula One in just a short period of time, just ask any driver currently involved in the Red Bull family. Only three weeks ago in Melbourne, then Racing Bulls driver Yuki Tsunoda sat down with The Roar to talk about how he was feeling ahead of the 2025 season. Now, as we enter his home race in Japan this weekend, the 24-year-old finally gets his shot at the big time, as he races for the senior Red Bull team for the first time in his career.

3 weeks ago | theroar.com.au | Ben Waterworth

Lance Stroll. The name brings with it a variety of feelings and opinions whenever it is uttered amongst F1 fans. This F1 fan of course has only positive feelings and opinions when it comes to him, a fact that I was able to showcase with my shadowing of him during the Australian Grand Prix in 2024. A year later, I was back in the Melbourne paddock and once again planned to shadow the enigmatic Canadian across the weekend.

4 weeks ago | theroar.com.au | Ben Waterworth

Wasn’t it just yesterday that we were getting excited for the opening round of the 2025 F1 season and now we’re two rounds in? How quickly time flies, especially when you’re an Aussie F1 fan and you are tasting success so early on in the season. Shades of 1998 emerging as McLaren dominance gets scaryBack in 1998, McLaren was the most dominant team in F1. They had emerged with by far the best car of the new rules introduced that season, and opened the season with two dominant 1-2 finishes.

1 month ago | theroar.com.au | Ben Waterworth

Another year, another record crowd at the Australian Grand Prix. A total of 465,498 people attended this year’s race at Albert Park across the four days, 13,433 more than last year’s record crowd of 452,055. It’s the fourth consecutive year the Melbourne record has been broken for the Australian Grand Prix, with this year’s race the fourth most attended Formula One race weekend in history.