BBC Sport brings you a regular round-up of the gossip in newspapers and on specialist websites around the world.

Red Bull's Mark Webber has joked that he would happily swap his second-placed grid position for the third spot occupied by Ferrari's Fernando Alonso. The Australian is unhappy with having to negotiate the dirty side of the track into the first corner.
Full story: ESPNF1.com

Hispania Racing Team's Sakon Yamamoto says he will talk to team-mate Bruno Senna to prevent any rift between the two drivers after he was promoted to take the Brazilian's place for the British Grand Prix.
Full story: autosport.com

Senna has admitted he was disappointed with Hispania's decision but says he is looking forward to returning to the seat at Hockenheim.
Full story: ESPNF1.com

Mercedes' Michael Schumacher has received backing from fellow German Sebastian Vettel. The Red Bull driver has predicted that the seven-time world champion, 18 years his senior, will improve through the second half of the year and could have a say in the destiny of the title.
Full story: PlanetF1.com

Lewis Hamilton has laughed off suggestions from the Red Bull camp that he and McLaren team-mate Jenson Button are destined to fall out as the season reaches its climax. "It's actually just funny when you see the kind of things that have emerged this week," he said. (Press Association)

The kerbs at Maggots have been modified after the drivers suggested that they were unnecessarily high.
Full story: PlanetF1.com

Wirth Research, Virgin Racing's design team, are to relocate to a new facility in Banbury from their current premises in Bicester.
Full story: Joe Saward's Grand Prix Blog

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