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A week after being disqualified from the Chinese Grand Prix Takuma Sato faces up to the challenge of competing in not on his home race, but that of his team.

Jean Todt hinted after the Chinese Grand Prix that Ferrari would be watching Renault closely to see what tactics the team employed in the battle for the World Championship.

Michelin did not participate in the first 16 Japanese Grands Prix - the company made its world championship debut in 1977, but its sole partner Renault did not travel to Fuji - and only recorded its maiden Suzuka F1 success in 2005. The circumstances could hardly have been more spectacular: Kimi Räikkönen charged through from the back of the field and passed Giancarlo Fisichella at the start of the final lap. It proved to be the campaign's most memorable race and Michelin drivers filled the top six places.

Sir Frank Williams thinks that Formula 1 is heading into a new fight over customer cars, saying that the plan to have cars on sale was not designed to allow big teams to expand their operations but was only agreed upon in order to help small teams survive.

Renault, Nissan and GM have terminated their discussions about a global alliance, bringing to an end the French company's hopes of propelling itself into the big league in America by effectively taking over the management of General Motors.

NASCAR is taking its Busch Series to Montreal next season with a race planned on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on August 4, two months after the Formula 1 cars run there.

Andreas Zuber, the Dubai-based Austrian, topped the timesheets of a major GP2 test at Paul Ricard as a new generation of GP2 drivers began testing for the first time. Zuber, driving for iSport International, was two-tenths faster than Giorgio Pantano, who is now with Campos Racing.

GP2 Test Times: Paul Ricard 04-10

ITV-F1.com mourns the loss of a truly great circuit to F1 in our preview of the Japanese GP.

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