The Monaco Grand Prix will remain on the calendar until 2020 after securing a new 10-year deal with Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone.

Ferrari's Felipe Massa to make an emotional return to the Hungaroring, a year after fracturing his skull during qualifying.

McLaren engineer director Paddy Lowe says his team may still struggle to match the pace of Red Bull and Ferrari at this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix.

Bernie Ecclestone has agreed a new deal with the Automobile Club de Monaco which will see the Grand Prix continue in the Principality for a further 10 years.

Hungary is a track where we expect to continue our strong recent progress. We're determined to avoid the type of problems that stopped us qualifying well in Hockenheim.

McLaren engineering chief Paddy Lowe has revealed that the number of wheel tethers on cars will be doubled from next season.

Nicola de Marco heads to Brno after enjoying one of his strongest weekends of the year in the Czech Republic twelve months ago. Prior to this year’s races, the Italian is placed a self-confessed disappointing 12th in the Formula 2 standings.

15-year-old Jake Dennis has been officially congratulated by national British motorsport governing body the MSA for picking up victory in the first round of the CIK-FIA U18 World Karting Championship in Germany at the weekend.

Finland’s Mika Mäki returns to the Formula 3 Euro Series next weekend, having missed the first eight races of the 2010 campaign for financial reasons. The 22-year-old from Pirkkala, who has joined Motopark Academy, will be making his comeback at the Nürburgring in Germany.

Bruno Senna returns to Hungary with the knowledge that he twice finished on the podium at the Hungaroring in GP2 two years ago. Then with iSport, now with Hispania, the Brazilian hopes to retain the Spanish team’s improved pace from Germany.

IndyCar Series governing body the IRL has said that it will not impose any fine or penalty on Penske’s Helio Castroneves before speaking with the Brazilian driver, who was furious to see his win denied at Edmonton on Sunday.

Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone admits that he has doubts over particular teams remaining on the grid next season. At present, twelve garage spaces are occupied although a thirteenth is set to complete the line-up in 2010.

It has been confirmed that the injured Simon Trummer will be forced to miss this weekend’s eleventh and twelfth rounds of the season at the Hungaroring due to being injured in Hockenheim’s second race on Sunday.

Force India have confirmed that, for the first time this year, they will be running a blown diffuser on their car on Friday in Hungary. Pioneered by Red Bull, such a component allows hot exhaust gases to exit the car lower down and therefore contribute to higher levels of rear downforce.

Soft Pauer has announced that its official Formula One 2010 live timing and track positioning application is now available from Android Market. The smash hit 5-star rated App has up until now only been available on the Apple platform.

Formula 1 driver turned BBC television pundit David Coulthard has expressed his shock at some of the reactions to Sunday’s German Grand Prix and, furthermore, insists that the ‘ludicrous’ ban on team orders should be removed from the sporting regulations.

Michael Schumacher has said that he agrees with former team Ferrari’s decision to switch the order of Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso in Sunday’s German Grand Prix, with the Spaniard having been allowed through to the lead in order to strengthen his higher championship position than Brazilian Massa’s.

Organisers of the returning American Grand Prix have revealed the plot of land on which the Austin, Texas race will be run when it makes its debut on the calendar in 2012. They have also confirmed that a former NFL and NBA team owner will be a significant player in the scheme.

Formula 1 commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone believes there is no room in the sport for a ban on team orders, with Ferrari’s tactics in the German Grand Prix having resulted in a $100,000 fine from governing body the FIA.

This year we have a much more balanced car over all types of tracks and, while we would look forward to Spa and Monza as high speed tracks that should suit us better, we should hold our own in Hungary.

No less than six members of the current field have enjoyed race victory in Hungary, with the second earliest of them being Rubens Barrichello for Ferrari in 2002. This weekend, the Brazilian returns certain that Williams can pick up more points after failing to score last time out in Germany.

The Hungaroring has welcomed seven new Grand Prix winners in the past seven years, the latest of which being Jenson Button as he rose from 14th on the grid to take the chequered flag for Honda in 2006.

Felipe Massa, having witnessed the anniversary of his life-threatening accident last Sunday, will this weekend return to the scene of the accident which so nearly took his life at the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix.

Fernando Alonso has chosen not to comment on the events of Germany as back-to-back races now mean the teams and drivers will arrive in Budapest just four days after departing Hockenheim, with the Spaniard trailing World Championship leader Lewis Hamilton by 34 points.

In a dramatic turnaround, Bernie Ecclestone has said that F1 only needs ten teams, warning that two of the current twelve teams could fall by the wayside before next season.