Finn Kimi Raikkonen has revealed that if he is to continue driving Formula 1 cars next season, it will only be for McLaren after he agreed to leave Ferrari a year early as Fernando Alonso takes his place alongside Felipe Massa. Jenson Button and Nico Rosberg are two other drivers rumoured with the drive at McLaren. [...]

Befitting the Middle East location, it looks like being a weekend with settled, warm weather, with partial cloud and an ambient temperature high of 36 degrees Celsius Thursday through to Sunday. Source: Formula1.com

Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed that Donington will not hold the British Grand Prix 2010. He said: “There’s no Donington. They’ve missed the deadline which we kept extending for them. It’s unfortunate for them. It was the credit crunch that caused them to be in trouble – because their intentions were good, that’s for sure.” On [...]

On lap one of last week’s Brazilian Grand Prix there was a collision between the German Force India driver Adrian Sutil and Italian Toyota driver Jarno Trulli, wiping both out of the race. Trulli went over and aggressively confronted Sutil despite the 5 inch height handicap the Italian had. This confrontation got Trulli a £6,000 [...]

The German media are suggesting that a deal bringing Timo Glock from Toyota to Renault is 95% done.

Nico Rosberg has confirmed to the Reuters news agency that he will leave Williams at the end of the season after four years with the British team.

Spanish motorsport website motor21.com is reporting that Adrian Campos’ team Campos Grand Prix have decided on their two drivers for next season – Bruno Senna and Pedro de la Rosa, but the team are yet to make an official announcement.

The F1 drivers salaries have been released today and they show that the ‘iceman’ Kimi Raikkonen is by far and away the highest paid F1 driver as he earns a cool $45m at Ferrari – over twice what the second highest paid driver Lewis Hamilton earns – $18m. These figures don’t even include other driver [...]

Brawn GP have signed a one race sponsor for the finale of the 2009 season in Abu Dhabi next weekend with Qatar Telecom (Qtel). Their sponsorship of the new World Champions Brawn GP will see the Qtel branding on the rear wing, chassis and cockpit sides of the Brawn-Mercedes cars of Jenson Button and Rubens [...]

  The Renault F1 team have announced they have signed a deal with the Dutch watchmaker, TW Steel, who will become the teams official timing sponsor. They said in a press release that the sponsorship will come into effect at this weekends Abu Dhabi Grand Prix where the R29 will carry TW Steel branding on [...]