The Pits

May 13, 2013: Sir Richard Branson has finally honoured a bet made with Caterham boss Tony Fernandes in 2010 by dressing up as an air stewardess on an AirAsia fligh

May 3, 2013: Williams has secured a sponsorship deal with the Kazakhstani investment business TAK Group that will see the name of Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, displayed on the car

April 25, 2013: Renault has applied its F1 KERS technology to its electric city car, the Twizy, to come up with a bonkers one-off concept car

April 25, 2013: Michael Schumacher will drive a lap of the Nordschleife in a 2011 Mercedes Formula One car as part of a promotional event for the Nurburging 24 hours

April 25, 2013: Pirelli is planning to auction off a 2011 HRT chassis on eBay after failing to find a use for it in its promotional department

March 22, 2013: A Mercedes-Benz W196 - the car Juan Manuel Fangio drove to the 1954 championship - has been found abandoned in a warehouse

March 19, 2013: Australia's two Formula One world champions, Sir Jack Brabham and Alan Jones, were honoured in a special ceremony at the Australian Grand Prix

March 11, 2013: NBC, which has taken over coverage of Formula One from Fox's Speed channel, is set to announce its schedule for the coming season

March 3, 2013: Bernie Ecclestone has granted Lewis Hamilton's dog a paddock pass so that it can travel with the Mercedes driver to races

March 1, 2013: Adrian Sutil says he has "no relationship" with Lewis Hamilton despite the Mercedes driver trying to contact the Force India man in recent weeks

February 26, 2013: Niki Lauda and Colin Chapman have been inducted in to the Motor Sport magazine Hall of Fame

February 15, 2013: Lewis Hamilton has returned to BBC motoring programme Top Gear in an attempt to set a new lap record in its "reasonably-priced car"

February 8, 2013

February 6, 2013: Sky Sports in the UK is set to broadcast parts of the final pre-season test in 3D in what it claims is a world first

January 24, 2013: A motoring journalist says he is facing bankruptcy after he was sued by ex-F1 driver David Piper for blowing up the engine of a 1969 Porsche 917 Le Mans car

January 13, 2013: Jules Bianchi has won Felipe Massa's International Challenge of the Stars [Desafio das Estrelas], an annual charity karting event that takes place in Brazil

January 7, 2013: Felipe Massa's annual charity karting event is set to go ahead next weekend with a grid full of F1 superstars including Fernando Alonso

January 2, 2013: Luca di Montezemolo has ruled himself out of the running to lead the Italia Futura political party, ensuring his position as Ferrari president remains secure

December 21, 2012: Former MotoGP presenter Suzi Perry will replace Jake Humphrey on the BBC Formula One coverage in 2013