Colin Kolles and Mike Gascoyne have left Force India in a major management reshuffle admidst speculation that the team will enter a technical partnership with McLaren-Mercedes in 2009.

Force India team owner has assumed full responsibility for running the outfit, aided by Robert Fernley, director of Force India, while design director Mark Smith and technical director James Key will share responsibility on the technical front.

This is the latest revision of the proposed 2009 Formula One World Championship Calendar. There are currently seventeen Grand Prix on next years schedule, including the new race from Abu Dhabi and a return to Suzuka for the Japanese GP.

Force India have ended their engine deal with Ferrari paving the way for a technical partnership with McLaren-Mercedes in 2009.

Force India boss Vijay Mallya is believed to be in negotiations with McLaren to secure a deal for a drive train package, and the announcement today that his team have ended their collaboration with Ferrari would seem to confirm the reports.

In a Formula One season full of surprises, the BMW Sauber F1 Team was a model of consistency. As if setting out to reinforce the popular stereotypes of German thoroughness and Swiss precision, the young team swept through 2008 without a single technical retirement and notched up by far the most race laps and fastest pit stops of any team.

Newly crowned world champion Lewis Hamilton took Pussycat Doll girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger on a romantic tour of his home town, Stevenage, on Wednesday, after returning to the UK with the 2008 F1 World Title in his grasp.

Fernando Alonso will remain at Renault for 2009 after the French team confirmed that the Spaniard had signed a two year extension contract.

The double world champion endured a trying start to his 2008 campaign and was widely believed to be leaving Renault to join either Ferrari or Honda.

Hamilton makes emotional homecoming to McLaren Mercedes headquarters in Woking

After the drama and the celebrations, now the homecoming. For newly crowned world champion Lewis Hamilton, returning to the McLaren Mercedes team’s Woking base was always going to be top priority.

To commemorate Lewis Hamilton’s world championship victory in Brazil on Sunday, the entrance to the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes headquarters in Woking has received its own unique makeover.

The McLaren Technology Centre’s visually striking 10m-long neon-white entry sign, witnessed by thousands of passing motorists each day, has been lit in McLaren’s trademark Rocket Red victory livery and decorated with a personalised congratulatory message to celebrate the success of the team’s new world champion.

British racing legend welcomes ‘exciting’ Hamilton as youngest World Champion but says he should never have won the title;

McLaren defend ‘disciplined’ Brazil tactics

McLaren celebrated winning their first drivers title in nine years in spectacular style tonight with a dazzling fireworks display at the team’s Woking base.

Lewis Hamilton became the youngest driver to win the Formula One World Championship on Sunday after finishing fifth in a thrilling Brazilian Grand Prix.