Autocourse: 60 Years of Word Championship Grand Prix Motor Racing The publishers of the historic motor racing annual “Autocourse” have produced a special book to mark 60 years of the modern world championship. Written by Alan Henry, and with photographs from The Cahier Archive “Autocourse: 60 Years of World Championship Grand Prix Motor Racing” covers every world championship season from 1950 up to the 60th world championship last year. The book goes on sale on July 1st but F1 Fanatic has obtained four copies for readers to win in our exclusive competition

Romain Grosjean will return to single-seater racing this weekend as he will contest the Auto GP round at Spa. Formerly known as Euroseries 3000, an earlier incarnation of the championship was won by Felipe Massa in 2001, the year before he made his F1 debut. The Auto GP series uses chassis based on those used by A1 Grand Prix from 2005-2008

Ferrari has confirmed Pat Fry will join the team as assistant technical director from the beginning of next month. Fry was previously chief engineer at McLaren and was working on the design of next year’s car, the MP4-26

Ferrari will debut a new exhaust configuration in the European Grand Prix this weekend. It is likely the layout is influenced by Red Bull’s exhaust-driven diffuser configuration, which is credited with helping the RB6 achieve high levels of downforce. According to Ferrari: The most significant feature is a new configuration for the exhaust system, aimed at improving the aerodynamic efficiency of the car.

Vitantonio Liuzzi wants to demonstrate the improved pace he showed in the Canadian Grand Prix again at Valencia this weekend. The Force India driver says changing chassis before Montreal was the key to his stronger race: I feel that Canada was another start for me and for sure I will be pushing like crazy to keep that level of performance going

I was very disappointed to read yesterday that Brits on Pole has suspended operations . I met Andy and LJH at the Goodwood Festival of Speed last year

Prodrive boss David Richards has said he wasn’t willing to risk job losses at his company by entering F1 in 2011 . Richards, who revealed in April he was not applying to compete in F1 next year, told The Independent : I wasn’t prepared to risk everyone’s livelihoods. It was quite interesting to watch the reaction of everybody when I told them.

A new week begins, and this one has a Grand Prix at the end of it! Here’s today’s round-up: Links Fernando Alonso sees his chance to break F1’s two-horse race (The Guardian) “The claims by the Mercedes team principal, Ross Brawn, that his team are still in both the drivers’ and constructors’ championships appear a little far-fetched, but there is a feeling that Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso could yet sneak below the radar to pose a real challenge to Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button, Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel.” Comment of the day I like Pete’s take on Jean Todt’s performance as FIA president so far: I almost never read or hear about him. That’s a very good thing. Pete From the forum Some people are already looking forward to next week’s race and asking if we might see a repeat of the Turkish Grand Prix

Bit of an odd Jenson Button story in the papers yesterday – have a look at the link below. Here’s the rest of the round-up: Links Formula 1 World champion Jenson Button sued Mercedes over £1million car ‘gift’ (The Daily Mail) “Button’s spokesman said that he will receive a 2009 Brawn BGP 001 from Mercedes .

Coming up this weekend on F1 Fanatic we’ll have the latest technical review from John Beamer and our monthly instalment of Jean Todt’s approval rating. Here’s today’s round-up: Links Woah, what’s going on? (The Buxton Blog) “All of which leaves us with little time to develop the tyres before next year