The Let’s Go Karting scheme, set up and run by the United Kingdom’s MSA (Motor Sports Association) just two years ago and which offers full karting sessions for just five pounds, has recently celebrated hitting the 10,000 mark.

Bruno Senna will team up with close friend and fellow Brazilian Lucas di Grassi to compete in the TriStar 111 Monaco triathlon on Sunday.

"The team is becoming more and more one unit and we are making progress," says Hispania team boss Colin Kolles.

Race day for next weekend’s Italian Grand Prix will mark the one-year anniversary of Lotus Racing in its current guise, with Chief Technical Officer Mike Gascoyne having originally been its only member when first setting up the outfit.

"He didn't need to pass me at that point, and I wasn't making his life difficult, so his car shouldn't have been on such a knife-edge when he hit me," says Button about Spa incident.

Italian capital city Rome continues to aim for a place on the Formula 1 calendar by as early as 2012 and no later than 2013 although its Mayor admits that facing opposition from residents is a current issue.

It has been confirmed by sporting commercial rights holder Formula One Management (FOM) that oil and gas company Petronas has renewed its sponsorship of the Malaysian Grand Prix, which it has held since the race made its debut on the calendar in 1999.

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Felipe Massa believes Ferrari faces a highly difficult weekend at the Italian Grand Prix on the back off a below-par performance from the prancing horse in Belgium on Sunday. The Maranello squad now heads into its home race 80 points off the Constructors’ Championship lead.

Hispania’s Sakon Yamamoto has revealed that he will be remaining in a race seat with the Hispania team until the end of the 2010 season, although it is unknown whether Bruno Senna will stay put alongside.

Pirelli continued its testing programme at France’s Paul Ricard circuit on Thursday morning as Nick Heidfeld once again drove a 2009 Toyota chassis. The outing marked further preparations for the returning Italian tyre company ahead of a further test in Spain in a fortnight’s time.

Pirelli continued its testing programme at France’s Paul Ricard circuit on Thursday morning as Nick Heidfeld once again drove a 2009 Toyota chassis. The outing marked further preparations for the returning Italian tyre company, which claims it is ahead of schedule prior to a further test in Spain in a fortnight’s time.

Formula 1's corporate sponsors have launched a new association to better represent their interests to the sport's governing officials.

Former Grand Prix winner Thierry Boutsen believes that technology now plays too great a role in the sport, having joined Formula 1 in 1983 before his retirement a decade later. The Belgian also feels that the championship is now lacking in the kind of driver camaraderie which featured throughout the 1980s.

Starting with Rounds 15 and 16 at Germany’s Oschersleben circuit this weekend, there are just four races remaining in the 2010 Formula 2 championship in which Englishmen Jolyon Palmer and Dean Stoneman are hotly contesting the title.

Having lost his victory at Spa due to a post-race time penalty in 2008, Lewis Hamilton’s success in Belgium at the weekend ticked off another box for the new championship leader who now aims for the top podium step at legendary Monza as well.

Malaysia’s Nabil Jeffri made history on Wednesday afternoon by becoming the youngest ever person to drive a Formula 1 car, as the 16-year-old piloted the Lotus in a straight-line aerodynamic test at Duxford’s Imperial War Museum in Cambridgeshire.

Full Throttle Productions, race promoters for the American Grand Prix which will return to the calendar in 2012, have revealed the layout of the brand-new Austin, Texas circuit designed by German Hermann Tilke.

Although Carlin’s Jean-Eric Vergne may have already been crowded the 2010 British Formula 3 Champion in dominant fashion, the National Class battle continues to rumble on as Britain’s James Cole aims to hunt down Bahraini T-Sport team-mate Menasheh Idafar.

Casey Stoner was unable to compete at last year’s San Marino Grand Prix, with his virus having left him out of action mid-season, although the Australian World Champion of 2007 is keen to make amends this weekend.