The first time the Formula One drivers will experience the newly-built Yas Marina Circuit will be during Friday’s opening practice session for this weekend’s inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Their GP2 Asia colleagues, however, are one step ahead, after 23 of them got the chance to sample the new venue on Friday and Saturday at a two-day test, a week before its public opening

Jean Todt has succeeded Max Mosley as President of Formula One racing’s governing body, the FIA, after comfortably winning a vote of the FIA General Assembly in Paris on Friday. Mosley, who backed Todt’s campaign against sole opponent Ari Vatanen, had held the role since 1993. Frenchman Todt has been involved in motorsport since 1966 and is arguably best known as the Ferrari team principal who guided Michael Schumacher to five world championships…

They’ve undoubtedly read about it and studied a map of the track. Perhaps they’ve sampled it on a simulator in the factory or even visited the venue, but the drivers have yet to really experience Abu Dhabi’s newly-built Yas Marina Circuit. After hearing so much about it, however, they clearly can’t wait to get cracking.

Max Mosley has been an integral part of Formula One racing for as long as many people can remember. But on Friday, after a 16-year stint as FIA President, Mosley will look on as his successor in the role – either former world rally champion Ari Vatanen or ex-Ferrari team principal Jean Todt – is elected.

Newly-crowned world champion Jenson Button made a moving return to Brawn GP’s UK headquarters in Brackley on Wednesday to pay tribute to the men and women behind his title-winning success. With the team having also wrapped up the constructors’ crown at last weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix, there was plenty to celebrate. Entering the factory’s auditorium to a recording of his own post-race rendition of ‘We are the Champions’, Button was warmly welcomed by 450 Brawn staff…

At last year’s Brazilian Grand Prix, a fifth-place finish driving a Mercedes-powered car numbered 22 was enough for an Englishman to beat his Brazilian rival to the drivers’ title. That man was McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton. Last Sunday in Sao Paulo saw an eerie repeat of those circumstances, only this time the man was Brawn GP’s Jenson Button

Following a meeting of the World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) in Paris on Wednesday, the FIA has re-released its provisional calendar for the 2010 season.

Just days after securing the 2009 drivers’ title with a fifth-place finish in Brazil, Brawn GP’s Jenson Button is back in Britain to continue his celebrations on home soil. After flying in from Sao Paulo overnight, Button attended a promotional event at Kent’s Bluewater Shopping Centre on Tuesday, and used the opportunity to describe how it feels to win his first-ever world championship…

Mark Webber drove a near perfect Brazilian Grand Prix, but his win was too little too late to keep Red Bull in the hunt for the constructors’ title.

Brawn GP team principal Ross Brawn has paid tribute to driver Jenson Button after the Englishman secured his first drivers’ title with a fifth-place finish in Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix.