Lygon Street’s flags, fans, food and cars were all red as Melbourne’s famous dining strip celebrated Ferrari’s 1-2 finish in the Australian Grand Prix.
, but by Monday morning, sport merchandise shop Forza Italia only had a splash of red left after almost selling out of Ferrari gear.
“The Italian community always comes together when they are victorious,” laughed Gerace on a much more subdued Lygon Street on Monday morning, where only a few checked racing flags were outside bistros after the wild scenes the night before.
Bestawros and other restaurant owners on Lygon Street reserved parking spots outside their businesses for the Ferrari Club Melbourne on Sunday knowing the cars would draw crowds.“It’s a good image – especially because they won. Everyone just went wild,” Bestawros said. As the month-long pack-down of race infrastructure began on Monday, Australian Grand Prix chief executive Travis Auld repeated an ambition to grow the event to one day overtake the British Grand Prix as the world’s biggest F1 race.
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