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The bookies have Michael Schumacher third favourite for the 2010 world championship behind Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso and the great man himself is starting to talk the talk as he builds up to one of the biggest comebacks Formula 1 — and sport — has seen. The seven-times world champion has just spent a couple of days at the team's headquarters and he likes what he has seen.
Full story: The Times and autosport.com and elsewhere

Lotus chief technical officer Mike Gascoyne says the decision to sign Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen for the team's debut season rather hiring well-funded rookies proves team boss Tony Fernandes is serious about succeeding in Formula 1.
Full story: autosport.com

Campos Meta's entry in the 2010 Formula 1 world championship has been put further in doubt with the news that Tony Teixeira has entered the frame to take over the Spanish outfit. The man behind the defunct A1GP championship has always harboured ambitions to enter F1 but failed in his efforts to take over Spyker, Honda and Toro Rosso over the last two years.
Full story: grandprix.com

Adrian Campos and his partner Jose Ramon Carabante are aiming to this year start the first Spanish Formula 1 team. They seem to be fairly advanced in this project but there continue to be a lot of rumours that money is tight and that they are having trouble finding backing from Spanish companies.
Full story: Joe Saward's grand prix blog

Formula One is continuing the new trend of mixing with rallying with Robert Kubica signing up to compete in the Monte Carlo Rally later this month.
Full story: planet-f1.com

The brand-new US F1 team has announced that John Anderson is to become its Team Manager with immediate effect. Most recently, Anderson was Team Manager for Gil de Ferran's American Le Mans Series organisation.
Full story: gpupdate.net

Fernando Alonso is to make his first appearance in Ferrari colours on Monday afternoon, when he arrives at Ferrari's traditional winter ski event.
Full story: autosport.com

The Sunday edition of the Gazzetta dello Sport has a full page dedicated to revealing some details of the 2010 Ferrari which will be launched later this month in time for the Valencia test from 1-3 February.
Full story: James Allen on F1

The management of Bahrain Grand Prix venue Sakhir remains hopeful that Formula 1 teams could get dispensation to test at the circuit before the start of the 2010 season if weather conditions in Europe are poor.
Full story: autosport.com

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