It was a public secret but was confirmed on Sunday evening: Valentino Rossi will join the Ducati team from 2011. After seven years at Yamaha the Italian multiple world champion will join the 'Rossa' next season. Ducati and Rossi signed a two-year agreement.

Earlier this evening Valentino Rossi has and the Yamaha team revealed that their partnership will come to an end at the end of the 2010 MotoGP season. After having joined the middle-class team in 2004 the multiple world champion has brought Yamaha many victories and a bike that is capable of winning races.

Valentino Rossi will not continue to race for the Yamaha factory team the Japanese bike manufacturer announced on Sunday evening. After seven years the Italian will move on to new challenges the team's press release said. Rossi is rumoured to join Ducati in 2011, but an official announcement is expected later this evening.

Jean-Eric Vergne crowned himself the 2010 Cooper Tires British F3 International Series Champion at Silverstone this afternoon in the best possible style – with a flamboyant 12th race victory of the season. He is the first French champion of British F3 and the third in successive years from the Carlin team.

Jean-Eric Vergne crowned himself the 2010 Cooper Tires British F3 International Series Champion at Silverstone this afternoon in the best possible style – with a flamboyant 12th race victory of the season. He is the first French champion of British F3 and the third in successive years from the Carlin team.

Mercedes Grand Prix test and reserve driver Nick Heidfeld is hired by Pirelli to test the tyre manufacturer's first set of Formula 1 tyres Spanish newspaper AS reports on Sunday. According to AS Heidfeld will be testing for three days at Mugello.

Brazilian racer Adriano Buzaid this morning became the ninth different race winner of the 2010 British F3 International Series, the Carlin driver snatching a brilliant win in the pit-stop sprint race on the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit. Buzaid’s storming pre-stop lap was the key to his victory ahead of early leader and pole position man Carlos Huertas.

The World Championship leader took his seventh victory of the season at the Cardion ab Grand Prix Czech Republic – his first premier class win at the Brno circuit – and stretched his advantage at the top to 77 points in the process.

Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda) set the fastest lap time in the warm up session for the Cardion ab Grand Prix Czech Republic on Sunday morning, in a session which was overcast by the weather conditions. The Italian’s effort of 2’10.135 was 1.682s faster than that of any other rider, as the session started on a track which appeared to be drying out and was then marked by a rain shower at its conclusion. 

Prodrive boss David Richards tells Chris Sylt: "What [the new teams] have done is disillusion anyone of the idea that you could at all be competitive and it has also prejudiced raising funds."

Barrichello sure of staying at Williams for his 19th season in F1, plus other news

The Grand Prix commission announced this weekend that from 2012 the 125cc class will be replaced by Moto3. Following the 250cc' replacement by Moto2 it was not a major surprise to see Moto3 receive the backup from FIM, IRTA and Dorna.

The Grand Prix commission announced that it will reintroduce the third free practice session again. Since the last of last season MotoGP riders received just two free practice sessions ahead of qualifying but a third practice session will return as early as next month at the Gran Premio A-Style de Aragón.