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The first full day of Jerez testing was like a flashback to November and Barcelona for Toro Rosso drivers Sebastien Buemi and Sebastien Bourdais after the duo comfortably topped the unofficial timesheets.

Compound fractures, gold medals and the hitherto completely unsuspected fluffy side of Dietrich ‘Didi’ Mateschitz. Read on for the best of the week’s F1 and motorsport news…

Don’t bottle it up, Mark! You’ve got to learn to tell it like it is. No, but seriously, it’s very refreshing to hear somebody other than Sir Jackie Stewart in the risk-averse, conservative world of F1 actually expressing a worthwhile opinion.

Fernando Alonso won his second race in a row after Lewis Hamilton’s rash start to the Japanese Grand Prix re-opened all of last season’s questions about the McLaren driver’s ability to stand the pressure of the championship battle.

The actor, philanthropist and motor sport supporter Paul Newman has died of cancer at the age of 83.

Lewis Hamilton is on pole for tomorrow’s Belgian Grand Prix after a blinding final lap edged him past Felipe Massa for the top spot.

Justin Wilson leapt to second in the Champ Car series standings with a win at the Grand Prix of Holland after leader Sebastien Bourdais became the highest-profile victim of a freak mechanical defect.

Justin Wilson struggled with a tyre delamination in Saturday qualifying for the Champ Car Grand Prix of Holland but still found himself on the front row thanks to his performance during the rain-hit Friday session.

Sebastien Bourdais won Champ Car’s Belgian expedition on Sunday, to nobody’s great surprise - but, after him, the places were decided by whose fuel strategy worked best.

“Speedy” Dan Clarke is still waiting for his first Champ Car victory - but the Generac Grand Prix of Road America provided him with visible proof of progress and a great example to follow.