BBC Sport brings you a regular round-up of the gossip in newspapers and on specialist websites around the world.
Six-time MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi will test a 2008 Ferrari F1 car on 20 January and a future F1 drive is still not being ruled out, say the Italian team.
Full story: ferrari.com Virgin Racing technical director Nick Wirth tells Autosport the team are hopeful of joining in the second multi-team test in Spain on 10 February.
Full story: Autosport.com Changes to the Formula 1 points-scoring system will be on the agenda at a meeting of the F1 Commission, which is made up of key stakeholders from the teams, promoters, suppliers and sponsors, scheduled for 1 February, says Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali.
Full story: Autosport.com The organisers of the opening Bahrain Grand Prix on 14 March are planning to gather together all 20 living Formula 1 world champions.
Full story: Joe Saward's Grand Prix blog Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn tells Autosport he is not worried that the strain of winning both championships in 2009, as Brawn GP, will have a negative impact on the team's ability to renew their challenge in 2010.
Full story: Autosport.com Former Renault boss Flavio Briatore tells Italian Sky TV that F1 will be 'a long time without him' following the FIA launching an appeal against a French court's decision to overturn his lifetime motorsport ban.
Full story: crash.net
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