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Both of Formula One’s championships are up for grabs at the season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix, as arch rivals Ferrari and McLaren battle to secure the constructors’ and drivers’ titles.

The challenges of F1’s first-ever night race have forced McLaren to abandon the search for aerodynamic perfection and fit headlights to Lewis Hamilton’s MP4-23.

With rain forecast for all three days of the Belgian Grand Prix race weekend, it’s certain that the teams will have to get their thinking caps on in Spa.

Just when you were thinking that it’s been a while a while since McLaren were handed a penalty, Martin Whitmarsh has revealed that the team were called in by the stewards following German Grand Prix qualifying.

Disturbing signs that the McLaren F1 team might be developing a siege mentality began to emerge after the French Grand Prix saw their drivers weighed down under an avalanche of penalties that effectively smothered their hopes.

Lewis Hamilton is evidently looking forward to returning to Bahrain for the third race in the 2008 world championship - he describes it as “a really cool circuit” and says his 2004 F3 race there was one of the most emotional he has been involved in.

Somewhere inside the maelstrom of controversy that is the McLaren F1 organisation, a racing team is struggling to get out.