GP2: Organizers announce calendar and entry list

FIA President Max Mosley is talking about promotion and relegation again, hoping to create a structure in which the top GP2 team could move into Formula 1 and the weaker F1 teams could drop out of the sport.

The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg has ruled Germany has to implement a ban tobacco advertising in newspapers, magazines, radio and on the internet and also comply with regulations banning cross-border sponsoring of events, such as Formula 1.

A season that started full of optimism soon went rapidly downhill for Williams in 2006.

Ron Dennis had a meeting with some of the British F1 media last week and discussed a little about whether or not the team will be sold to Mercedes-Benz. For some time there have been rumours that a deal was done last summer and our sources are absolutely certain that a sale is taking place.

Mike Janes, the man who has been running Cosworth's race engineering team this year, has left the Northamptonshire company and is to take up a new role as the team manager of the new Ilmor MotoGP team.

BMW Sauber boss Dr Mario Theissen says it is going to be hard for the FIA to control aerodynamic development in Formula 1.

BMW Sauber this morning revealed a new generation of supercomputer with mind-blowing capabilities to help the team develop better Formula 1 cars. The computer, known as Albert 2, can complete 12, 288, 000 000 000 calculations per second, which enables the team to get five times the performance of the previous computer.

The talk at the launch of the new BMW Sauber supercomputer was that Ferrari will soon begin work on a second windtunnel to complement the current facility at Maranello.

Today Olivier Panis will sign off his 12-year Formula One career at his last ever test. The Frenchman retired from racing at the end of 2004 but has since been helping with the development programme at Toyota. In September this year he announced he would be retiring at the ripe age of 40. The Lyonnais is looking forward to resurrecting his racing career outside of Formula One.

Jenson's rib injury keeps him out of Race of Champions, but Scott Speed to make debut.

Massa hosts another Kart event