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Fernando Alonso's new Ferrari contract could see him race for the famous Italian team until the end of the 2015 season, and earn him 150 million euros, according to reports on Tuesday in the Spanish press. Full story...

Nick Heidfeld could be set to return to his team of 2005, Williams. Full story...

Honda Motor has no regrets about leaving Formula One racing, its president said. Full story...

Mario Theissen has played down the negative speculation that is circulating about the BMW-Sauber team's new owner Qadbak. Full story...

Fernando Alonso will this week be confirmed as a Ferrari driver for 2010 and beyond, according to reports. Full story...

The Japanese carmaker Honda insists it does not regret pulling out of formula one at the end of last year. Full story...

Reigning World Champion Lewis Hamilton sorely wanted to win in Singapore after his slip up recently at Monza, and on Sunday evening he drove a pluperfect race for McLaren to deliver a richly deserved triumph. Full story...

As the speculation steadily becomes fact, Renault's new managing director Jean-Francois Caubet on Sunday all but confirmed that the 27-year-old Spaniard is now set to depart the French team. Full story...

Adrian Sutil was fined $20,000 USD and reprimanded by the stewards after retiring from the Singapore grand prix. When trying to rejoin after a spin, the Force India driver drove into BMW-Sauber's Nick Heidfeld. Full story...

Bernie Ecclestone has played down the danger to his role in charge of formula one posed by Sir Martin Sorrell, an outspoken director of F1's commercial rights owner CVC. Full story...

Jacques Villeneuve this weekend is making yet another visit to a formula one paddock, and he told the French daily Le Parisien that he is "reasonably optimistic" of securing a return to the grid in 2010. Full story...

Lewis Hamilton stayed up front from start to finish Sunday night, in Singapore, and redeemed himself from two weeks ago, when he crashed in the last lap of the race. Hamilton won in front of Timo Glock's Toyota and Fernando Alonso's Renault. Both Glock and Alonso's results is expected to raise the moral of their troops as they both register a season's best. Full story...

Barrichello's 15 point deficit means he needs to claw back more than 5 points to Button in each of the remaining rounds in Japan, Brazil and Abu Dhabi. Vettel did finish ahead of Button in fourth place, but his points deficit to the Brawn was reduced only to 25 points, leaving him with the unlikely task of clawing back more than 8 points at every one of the last three races in 2009. Full story...

BMW-Sauber will soon discover if its place on the 2010 grid is guaranteed. In the meanwhile, the new Malaysian-owned Lotus F1 team is in talks about being sponsored next year by Petronas, the state owned oil company. Full story...

Kimi Raikkonen in Singapore expressed frustration about the reasons for his low qualifying position for Sunday's floodlit race. As for Giancarlo Fisichella, he was bitterly and visibly disappointed after qualifying a lowly 18th for his second grand prix at the wheel of a Ferrari. Full story...

Bernie Ecclestone has played down the danger to his role in charge of formula one posed by Sir Martin Sorrell, an outspoken director of F1's commercial rights owner CVC. Full story...

Jenson Button in Singapore called for calm amid increasing rumours of discord behind closed doors at Brawn. With the Briton now essentially battling only his teammate Rubens Barrichello for the 2009 championship, it is rumoured that they are also fighting for the single remaining race seat at the team for next season. Full story...

Lewis Hamilton hit out at the state of the Singapore street circuit on Saturday, after struggling for pace in Friday's practice sessions. The Briton emerged on track for the final session before qualifying with a brand new McLaren chassis, his crew having discovered a problem overnight. Full story...

Although blacklisted by many in the pitlane, Nelson Piquet Jr will find another drive in formula one, according to the sport's chief executive Bernie Ecclestone. The 23-year-old Brazilian was sacked by former Renault boss Flavio Briatore earlier this year, and he then blew the whistle on what became known as crash-gate, having admitted to crashing on purpose in Singapore last year. Full story...

The wheels of speculation regarding the futures of Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso continue to spin in Singapore. Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali, who has Raikkonen under contract for 2010, on Friday admitted that "the situation has changed ... in the last couple of days". At the same time, Alonso revealed that he has made his mind up about his plans for next year, while the Raikkonen camp admitted that contracts can be broken. Full story...