Brands Hatch: Friday Practice 2 Times

The Ferrari team has hit out at the FIA's proposals for a budget cap, which would see those teams wishing to follow a new, less restricted set of regulations be limited to spending no more than £40m from next season onwards.

The FIA has explained why it elected to hand the McLaren team with a suspended three-race ban for 'liegate' rather than putting the penalty to immediate effect. In the event of no similar incident taking place over the course of a year, the punishment will be declared dull and void - due mainly to the manner in which the team presented itself during Wednesday's hearing in Paris.

Brands Hatch: Friday Practice 1 (Rookies) Times

The BMW team is pinning its chances on major aerodynamic upgrades ahead of next weekend's Grand Prix of Spain. The Swiss-German team will be taking the parts to Barcelona as the European season of 2009 gets underway at a track on which a large portion of off-season testing is completed.

Brands Hatch: Nominated Drivers

World Motor Sport Council - Decision regarding McLaren

Jacques Villeneuve is to open a driving school in his hometown of Montreal, the former Champion has said. Villeneuve last drove in Formula One for BMW in 2006 before being replaced by Robert Kubica after the German Grand Prix. Now, though, Jacques is ready to pass on his skills to up and coming stars.

Friday 1 May 2009 marks the fifteenth anniversary for the death of Ayrton Senna. The São Paulo-born driver, who claimed 41 Grand Prix wins, 65 pole positions and 3 World Championship titles between 1984 and 1994, was killed tragically on this day in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix when leading the race for Williams. With work beginning on a feature film dedicated to the great man this month, GPUpdate.net takes a moment to celebrate the life of a sporting legend.

Having clearly got McLaren where he wants them, Max Mosley is now firmly setting his sights on Ferrari.

Possibilities of the Prodrive team making a Formula One debut have increased after the announcement of the FIA's 2010 budget cap on Thursday. The spending limit is designed to encourage new outfits to take part in the sport as well as assisting the secure future of current competitors.