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Team GBR and the Irish will again be locked together on the A1GP grid, qualifying first and second in Sepang for tomorrow’s feature race, and sixth and seventh for the sprint.

At last! Details of how to get your hands on what is shaping up to be this year’s must-have Christmas pressie. Motorsport merchandiser OnPole.com now has the kit available for pre-order - in limited numbers, so if you want one you had better get your name down now.

It was down to business on the third and last day of Barcelona testing but, even with most of the newbies on the plane home, the cars from the Red Bull stable were able to retain their dominance.

Lewis Hamilton has confirmed his appearance at December’s Race of Champions event at Wembley - but rather than take on the likes of Michael Schumacher, Sebastien Loeb and Matthias Ekstrom he’ll be going head to head with a man on a bike.

Double podium scoring Danny Watts is definitely back in the car for the British team in the latest round of the international A1GP series, due to be held at Malaysia’s Sepang circuit this weekend

Good news for everyone who’s watched the now-famous Abbey advert with the Lewis Hamilton Airfix kit and wondered whether they’d ever get the chance to buy one.

Lewis Hamilton broke the hearts of 80,000 Brazilians at Interlagos by sneaking the Formula One world championship in the last few yards of the season’s final lap while Ferrari were already celebrating for Felipe Massa.

It’s now almost eight months since Lewis Hamilton cruised to unruffled victory and Felipe Massa ended up by the side of the road in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix - now the pair face off in Brazil to decide the championship.

David Coulthard will be joining the BBC next year to provide technical feedback during race weekends, according to a very well-informed source.

A1GP’s Team GBR has called in an experienced pair of hands for its first race in Chengdu, China from November 7 - and, with no opportunity to test the car before flying there, that’s about the only good news.