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Now the F1 season’s come to a close we’ve decided to experiment with a new weekly feature that rounds up a lot of the lesser-spotted stories from the week’s news and sport coverage.

McLaren’s Pedro de la Rosa has managed to put his team at the top of the unofficial timesheet during the final day of the final test of the 2008 Formula One season.

Lewis Hamilton has revealed how a bout of flu and a stiff neck nearly cost him the eight European Grand Prix points that have helped him preserve his World Championship lead.

Mark Webber has put a smile on the face of his bosses at after topping the timesheets on the third day of Jerez testing - securing a lock-out for the Red Bull and Toro Rosso teams.

Toro Rosso’s Sebastian Vettel has proved he is no one-hit wonder by topping the Jerez timesheets for the second day running.

Renault’s ailing Nelson A Piquet has shown what a dose of confidence could do for his performance after clocking the fastest time of the recent Barcelona testing stint and ending a dominant Ferrari run.

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

McLaren has been fined $100m and docked all its 2007 constructors’ points a in ’spygate’ verdict that team boss Ron Dennis called undeserved but rivals Ferrari lauded as satisfactory.

The excitement of watching madcap McLaren tester Pedro de la Rosa duelling for race position with his swooping overtakes and seemingly death-defying approaches to his opponents’ exhaust pipes is always guaranteed to make a Grand Prix well worth the trouble of turning on the telly.