
Jenson Button has signed on to drive for McLaren from next year. At least, that’s what BBC Sport are reporting.

Jenson Button has signed on to drive for McLaren from next year. At least, that’s what BBC Sport are reporting.

Finnish newspaper Turun Sanomat is today reporting that ex-Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen will not race in F1 next year.

Former Toyota driver Timo Glock is off to join one of the new squads for next year, in the shape of the Manor Grand Prix team.

It seems the rumour-mongering was true: German manufacturer Mercedes has just announced that it has bought a controlling stake in the Brawn GP squad.

BBC Sport’s Ted Kravitz always comes up with some great insider type blogs, and his latest episode post-Abu Dhabi is more of the same.

Toyota has this morning announced that it is pulling out of F1 with immediate effect.
It cites the global economic downturn as the reason for the withdrawal, after posting the company’s first ever operating loss back in March.

News reaches us this morning that’s about as surprising as the clocks going back, that we didn’t have a proper UK summer and that Fernando Alonso is driving for Ferrari next year: Rubens Barrichello and Nico Hulkenberg are in at Williams.

Ahead of this weekend’s Abu Dhabi GP, Nico Rosberg has announced that it will be his last race with Williams.
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