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The inaugural Korean Grand Prix was a real race of attrition, so you would think Williams’ technical director Sam Michael would be pleased that both his drivers took home points. But, were it not for the tyre troubles Rubens Barrichello and Nico Hulkenberg faced during the race, Michael believes the FW32 had more than enough performance for the duo to have finished higher up the order than their respective seventh and tenth places. He explains why he hopes the British team will show their full potential at the forthcoming Brazilian event

Mercedes GP’s Nico Rosberg is the latest Formula One driver to catch the triathlon bug. Following Jenson Button’s recent outing in the London event, Rosberg was in action in Kitzbuehel, Austria, over the weekend.

In what was his first Olympic-distance triathlon, Rosberg recorded a highly-respectable time of 2h07m23s…

Despite suffering from a bout of tonsillitis in the days leading up to the event, McLaren’s Jenson Button put in an impressive performance at Sunday’s London Triathlon. Button is understood to have finished fourth out of the 570 competitors in his group, with a time of 2.14:14.

The annual event includes a 1500-metre swim, a 40-kilometre bike ride and a 10-kilometre run. It attracts 11,000 entrants making it the largest triathlon in the world.

Ferrari will appear before the FIA World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) next month following their controversial one-two result at July’s German Grand Prix.

The Italian team were fined US$100,000 by the Hockenheim race stewards for breaching sporting regulations after Felipe Massa, who had been leading the event, moved aside to allow team mate Fernando Alonso past. The stewards also forwarded their report to the WMSC for further consideration.

McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton may have won last year’s Hungarian Grand Prix, but the 2009 event was dominated by the accident which befell Ferrari’s Felipe Massa during qualifying. A year on, we look back at the events of the Budapest weekend, which would see Massa ruled out of the rest of the season, and evaluate the Brazilian’s extraordinary return to top-flight racing.

Ahead of qualifying Massa had looked fairly comfortable in his Ferrari, clocking the seventh-fastest time in Saturday’s final practice session, and as qualifying got underway he was equally swift. But during the closing moments of Q2, whilst running eighth, he suddenly speared off the track at Turn Four of the Hungaroring and ploughed straight into a tyre wall.

Russian fans will get a taste of Formula One racing this weekend when local hero and Renault driver Vitaly Petrov heads to Moscow for a series of demonstrations on the streets of the Russian capital.

Renault will take their three-seater Formula One car to the annual Moscow City Racing event, which will give Petrov his first opportunity to drive an F1 car in his home country. And with two passenger seats available, some lucky guests will also get the rare chance to experience the thrill of Formula One power.

Following Sunday’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone, Sam Michael, Williams’ technical director, discusses how the weekend unfolded for team mates Rubens Barrichello and Nico Hulkenberg, the FW32′s recent upgrade, and his hopes for the forthcoming German event…

Lewis Hamilton heads into this weekend’s British Grand Prix as championship leader. His McLaren has got some new components that look promising and even though the young Brit is not fully satisfied with their performance just yet, he is confident that the team will find the right set-up for qualifying and the race. After all, who wouldn’t love to win his home event?