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The Panasonic Toyota F1 team has offered their former technical director Gustav Brunner a settlement of 1.3 million euro. According to German magazine Auto Motor Und Sport Brunner has two weeks time to consider Toyota's offer.

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Fresh from its momentous first win in the Hungarian Grand Prix, the Honda Racing F1 Team has agreed a partnership for the next race with Turkish Grand Prix title sponsor, Petrol Ofisi.

The giant Ford Motor Company is reported to be considering going private in order to buy time to restructure its ailing automobile business. Ford's share price is currently $7.75 which means that the cost of going private could be as little as $13.3bn.

Mario Illien cannot build Formula 1 engines for a year or two because of a deal he has with Mercedes-Benz, but that does not mean the Swiss engine designer cannot win races in MotoGP.

Gustav Brunner and Panasonic Toyota Racing have been haggling over a severance deal for a long time and the problem has now gone to court in Cologne with Toyota offering $1.7m in compensation but Brunner apparently holding out for more.

Sebastian Vettel will make his Formula 1 Grand Prix debut this weekend in Turkey. He will be driving BMW's third car in Friday's free practice session, mostlikely until the end of the year. Vettel hopes he can earn himself a testing seat next season.

A puff of publicity this week about Prodrive's talks with other F1 teams reveals that the new F1 team will, as previously reported, be a customer operation when it starts testing next year and in the foreseeable future.

Antonio Pizzonia turned up in the F1 paddock in Budapest recently, looking to see if there was any chance of work in the future. The former Jaguar Racing and Williams driver presumably did not hear what he wanted to hear as he is to return to Champ Car racing this weekend at the wheel of a Rocketsports Lola in Montreal.