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F1 commercial rights-holder Bernie Ecclestone has laid the blame for the struggles experienced by the top flight's three newcomers in 2010 squarely at the feet of former FIA president Max Mosley. "It was really Max Mosley's fault, telling them they could come in and be contenders for £30 million," Ecclestone wrote in the foreword to the official F1 season review.
Full story: Yahoo.com

Lotus team boss Tony Fernandes said he decided to stick with the Team Lotus name despite objections from Lotus Cars owner Proton because of "tremendous support from the public". He added: "Team Lotus it is. Sure there will be many battles ahead but (the factory at Higham) is pumped."
Full story: Tony Fernandes on Twitter

Fernando Alonso says he took great satisfaction from his margin of superiority over Ferrari team-mate Felipe Massa this season, with the Spaniard seeing the gap as evidence that he was in his best form yet. "My level of driving is better than ever and I hope I can keep it up next year," he told Onda Cero radio.
Full story: Autosport.com

German Timo Glock says it is "99.9%" certain that he will stay with Virgin Racing in 2011.
Full story: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German)

Robert Kubica says Renault face a difficult decision whether to retain Vitaly Petrov as his team-mate in 2011. "Of course the team would benefit from a more experienced driver," he told Dutch magazine formule1.nl. "As a rookie you find that Formula 1 is not as easy as it first seemed. You also have to say that there have been newcomers who have performed strongly right from the start."
Full story: ESPNF1.com

Formula 1 could be in for an unusual development in the weeks ahead as Ferrari could be on the verge of losing its guiding hand for the last 19 years, as rumours swirl in Italy that Luca di Montezemolo might be about to leap into politics.
Full story: Joe Saward's grand prix blog

Peter Sauber says he has "at present no plans" to sell his team in the wake of speculation about new sponsor Telmex taking a stake. Sauber has no regrets about his decision to replace Pedro de la Rosa with Nick Heidfeld for the final five races of the season. "What we were missing was a reliable benchmark," Sauber said. He also said the recruitment of James Key as technical director was behind the team's progress in the second half of the season.
Full story: Sauber

Seven-time rally world champion Sebastien Loeb has given up on competing in Formula 1.
Full story: L'Equipe (in French)

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