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The results are revealed in the team's accounts for the year ending December 31, 2008, which also show that turnover increased 33pc to £148m on the back of new sponsorship deals. These included Pepe Jeans and Spanish insurer Mutua Madrilena, which joined Renault in 2008 as a result of the team signing its countryman – former champion Fernando Alonso. His annual salary is believed to be $25m (£15.2m)

There were rumours in Budapest over the weekend that the Renault F1 team may be on the verge of being sold, with the latest whispers suggesting that the many most likely to buy the team is Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, who is the owner of the team’s recently-announced sponsor MegaFon.

Questions about Harvick's future have persisted since last week, when reports surfaced that the flagship driver at RCR wanted out of his contract a year early so he could go race somewhere else. Team owner Richard Childress issued a statement saying that Harvick would remain in the fold at least though the end of his current deal, which runs through 2010. And yet, the 2007 Daytona 500 winner has offered no public hints about what he really wants to do.

That changed when his fans began raising money to send him to the Nationwide road race in Montreal on Aug. 30 because his sponsor, the U.S. Border Patrol, won’t back the No. 28 car in events outside the United States.

Drivers are allowed to go 55 mph on Indy’s pit road but are given a 5 mph cushion, essentially making the speed limit 60 mph. In the second of eight timed segments on pit road, Montoya was caught going 60.06 mph. In the fourth segment he went 60.11.

Roush Fenway Racing has informed Jamie McMurray he is free to talk to other organizations about next season, team president Geoff Smith said on Sunday.

"I continue to be perplexed by the board's recent decision to relieve me from my responsibility as CEO of the enterprise," George wrote on his Vision Racing team's website.

McLaren is pushing ahead with its car development, and this time has come up with a revised aerodynamics package around the exhausts.

Dr. Helmut Marko weiß aus eigener schmerzhafter Erfahrung, wie eine solche Situation für einen Piloten ist. Er verlor 1972 beim Frankreich-Grand-Prix ein Auge, als ein von Ronnie Peterson aufgewirbelter Stein das Visier seines Helms durchschlug.

"He has suffered some damage to the eye," said Veres. "We don't know whether he'll be able to race again."

That he was awaken and talking doesn’t lessen the severety of the injury. The skull had colapsed over his left eye, a deep wound in the flesh was less worrying. While he was stable when airlifted to AEK hospital, upon arrival the driver began to have spasms and feeling uncomfortable, apparently due to increasing preassure on the brain because of a swelling.

Schumacher dementiert nicht

Nach Aussage der Ärzte ist die aktuelle Saison für den Ferrari-Piloten mit größter Wahrscheinlichkeit beendet. Es seien zwar gute Genesungsfortschritte zu erkennen, aber es könnten auch jederzeit noch Komplikationen auftreten, hieß es.