Brits on Pole

We’re venturing into a whole new scenario at Valencia for the first-ever European Grand Prix to be held in this city - and we’re expecting an exciting race.

This weekend’s race is McLaren’s to lose - can they manage it?

It’s here - the British Grand Prix and the highlight of the Formula One season. It’s also the one day of the year when the spotlight is on Lewis Hamilton as never before.

If you’d like to know why we think the BBC should axe David Croft and Maurice Hamilton in 2009, sign up some new blood and, yes, even resist the temptation to bring back The Chain, then get yourselves along to the Vee8 blog, where we’ve written a guest post.

Ha! We were worried that the BBC had trashed its sporting quote of the week column as we couldn’t find it on the site.

Wind is already scouring the Sakhir circuit in preparation for the third race in the 2008 Formula One World Championship. We can’t quite promise to report on the progress of every last grain of sand - but we’ll be here for the next two and a half hours, live blogging the race.

Lewis Hamilton - new racing star to rival Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna? Or one-season wonder who’s blown his best chance and will now never cut it?

Everybody sitting comfortably? The latest action from Interlagos. Press ‘refresh’ to make sure you’re looking at the very latest…

Here we go again. Rumours of a new F1 spy row involving the leaking to Renault of sensitive commercial data belonging to McLaren have surfaced in the wake of last week’s events.

Now the Ferrari/McLaren spy row has become an exercise in believing six impossible things before breakfast.