Five stats from the opening weekend in Melbourne

1. In fifteen of the last nineteen seasons - including each of the last three - the winner of the opening race of the season has gone on to win the Drivers Championship. Jenson Button is now the favourite and the best price available on him is 3/1 with Boylesports.

2. The winning team at the first Grand Prix of the season have won the Constructors Championship in seven of the last nine years. Brawn GP are still available at 11/5 with Boylesports but Ferrari, who broke this trend last season to triumph, are still favourites. The best price available on the Scuderia is 11/8 with Ladbrokes.

“Play the one off CSI!”

Veteran British rockers The Who will play a gig in Albert Park after next season’s Australian GP in Melbourne. The post-Oz gig looks set to become a key part of the race weekend - Kiss performed after the conclusion of this year’s race, with more than 60,000 fans staying on to see it. It’s a cunning way of leaving fans on a high, no matter how dull the race has been - not to mention keeping fans at the circuit for longer, thereby boosting revenue.

The Who’s Pete Townshend said: “This is a special occasion for us to come and be with you guys at the time of the grand prix. Kiss did it last year [sic] and we hear they played to big crowds, but we hope to see an even bigger crowd when we hit Melbourne in March.”

Gridcrasher bonus! Watch Roger Daltrey take on Top Gear’s “Star in a Reasonably Priced Car” challenge:

Kylie’s little sis now sniffing around McLaren ace

Dannii ‘does she really need those extra letters in her first name?’ Minogue has reportedly set up a hot date with Lewis Hamilton. The Aussie celebrity – what does she actually do these days? – has previous with racing drivers. She used to be engaged to Canadian speedster Jacques Villeneuve but the pair split in 2001. She swapped mobile numbers with Lewis at the Australian Grand Prix in March; he has been inundating Minogue with text messages ever since, and now “sources” (i.e. someone made it up) reveal that she has finally caved in agreed to a date with the Brit.

Ozzy’s daughter yet another celeb to enjoy F1 hospitality

Here’s the youngest of The Osbournes (give her five years and she’ll look more like her mother than her mother does), on the grid at this season’s Australian GP in Melbourne. You know what she’s thinking: ‘This complimentary F1 baseball cap ruins my ‘I got dressed in the dark’ grid look. She looks like she’s having less fun than Fernando Alonso in this year’s Renault.

It’s Spain’s number one F1 WAG!

If you thought Fernando Alonso’s relationship with ex-teammate Lewis Hamilton was tumultuous, then spare a thought for his on/off girlfriend Raquel del Rosario. The pair met at a Spanish radio station a few years back, and were rumoured to have cemented their love with marriage in 2006. This, however, was never confirmed and they have spent time apart on a few occasions since. At present, their relationship is less stable than Newcastle’s Premiership status, so maybe the stroppy Spaniard will be a

Typical, our great hope for the Australian Grand Prix zooms in to win, and then the whole day becomes a massive downer, thanks to a load of middle-aged clowns spoiling everyone’s head-rush.Gene Simmons - he who has reportedly made the world’s most limp and monotonous sex tape - and his grown-up mates are still putting on face paints and doing that horrible tongue thing in front of crowds of (presumably) weeping children - even though they have over a thousand years between them!