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Earlier in the season, just when the threat of a split in world motorsport seemed to be receding, up popped Max Mosley and Bernie Ecclestone with dangerous talk of F1 breakaways and rivals to GP2. But if it happens, does it have to end in tears?

Max Mosley’s Formula Two championship has taken a step closer to reality with the announcement that MotorSport Vision (MSV), the company belonging to former racing driver Jonathan Palmer, has won the FIA’s tender to supply chassis and engines for the series.

We’ve long since learned that people are more interested in motor racing than Max Mosley - which suits us just fine. But sometimes he says things that can’t be ignored.

The similarities are striking - two Brazilian drivers trying to continue a recent run of good form and eat into world championship leads, both apparently on their way to commanding race victories, both committing apparent rules breaches.

We’ve all had our eyes on some thrilling racing since the British Grand Prix - but there are still some political developments going on in F1 that are worth keeping in touch with. Here’s our quick guide.

We bring you, without further comment, this from former Mirror editor and media pundit Piers Morgan.

FIA chief Max Mosley has won his court action against the News of the World following the newspaper’s revelation that he took part in sadomasochistic orgies with prostitutes.

With celebrations already under way to mark Silverstone’s 60th anniversary, Bernie Ecclestone pulled the rug out from under the Northamptonshire circuit by announcing the British Grand Prix will move to Donington Park from 2010.

The decisions made at the FIA’s latest World Motor Sport Council meeting in Paris amount to a stack of grenades lobbed in the direction of Bernie Ecclestone and his Formula One Management company.

Just when you thought it was safe to start reading French Grand Prix previews… along comes the formerly tight-lipped Bernie Ecclestone, now positively garrulous on the subject of a split from the FIA.