Lewis Hamilton says he is excited by the intense competition for the Formula 1 drivers' championship - with five men in contention to win the title.

World Champion Jenson Button dropped two World Championship positions to fourth after the Hungarian Grand Prix, having struggled to a race finishing spot of eighth in Budapest. However, the McLaren driver is confident that a recovery can be put together in order to prevent a Red Bull stranglehold.

Eddie Irvine has branded former team-mate Michael Schumacher ‘an idiot’ following the German’s forceful move on Rubens Barrichello in Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix. The Irishman was Ferrari team-mate to the now 7-time World Champion for four seasons between 1996 and 1999.

Although, like most in the F1 paddock, he's looking forward to the summer break, Lewis Hamilton admits that he cannot wait for the Spa weekend, in fact, he wishes it was next week.

Currently in Barcelona, Interwetten Honda test rider Hiroshi Aoyama is pleased to report that he continues to make a speedy recovery following his warm-up crash at Silverstone which resulted in a fractured T12 vertebra.

Upon Tavo Hellmund's seemingly unlikely head and shoulders rests nothing less than the hope of interest in F1 from an entire nation.

Addax driver Felipe Guimarães will start ten places further back on the grid from where he qualifies for Race 1 in Belgium, it has been confirmed, following his collision with the MW Arden of Michael Christensen in Hungary on Sunday.

Jenson Button looks back at the Hungarian Grand Prix, insisting that he and his team are still very much in the title fight.

It has been confirmed that BBC F1 pit reporter Lee McKenzie will become the sport’s first-ever female presenter as she replaces regular anchorman Jake Humphrey for this year’s Japanese Grand Prix on the second weekend of October.

Italy’s Francesco Dracone will be joining Conquest Racing for the next two races of the IndyCar season, it has been confirmed by the team. The Turin-born 26-year-old will be piloting the #34 Dallara.

Mark Webber calls for all F1 engines to be made equal, plus other stories

Lewis Hamilton is fully aware of the threat surrounding his bid for a second world title this year, with Red Bull Racing having moved into the lead of both the drivers’ and constructors’ standings after Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix.

Hungarian Grand Prix winner Mark Webber has explained that rival teams will continue to ridicule Red Bull Racing as long as the Milton Keynes-built cars remain the fastest on the grid, with Sebastian Vettel’s Saturday pole position time having been a massive 1.2 seconds quicker than its nearest challenger.

With FIA Race Steward Derek Warwick having already said that Michael Schumacher came close to being disqualified from Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix for dangerous driving, former triple World Champion Jackie Stewart has insisted that the German’s ‘bully-boy tactics’ must be stopped.

Following a three-year sabbatical, Cosworth returned to Formula 1 as an engine supplier for the start of 2010 and, despite supplying no less than eight of the current 24 cars on the grid, a failure of one of its powerplants is yet to seen.