The Pits

December 21, 2011: Fernando Alonso and his wife Raquel del Rosario have announced they are splitting up

December 14, 2011: Former Benetton driver JJ Lehto has been jailed for manslaughter following a boating accident which saw one of his friends killed

December 13, 2011: Ben Edwards will commentate for the BBC alongside David Coulthard in 2012, according to a report in The Telegraph

December 10, 2011: Kimi Raikkonen has escaped with just a sore wrist after an accident in a snowmobile race in Austria on Saturday

December 7, 2011: Sky Sports has confirmed its commentary and presenting team for its Formula One channel in the UK

November 27, 2011: Martin Brundle will commentate for Sky Sports new Formula One channel next season, leaving his current job working for the BBC

November 25, 2011: Sky Sports will cover Formula One in the UK in 2012 by way of a new dedicated channel: Sky Sports F1 HD

November 10, 2011: Former Formula One driver and two-time CART champion Alex Zanardi has won the Handcycle class of the New York Marathon

November 3, 2011: Sky Sports have said it took only 48 hours for it to agree to share broadcast rights to Formula One with the BBC in 2012.

October 31, 2011: Four organisers of the abandoned Indian Grand Prix F1 Rocks concert have been arrested on fraud charges

October 27, 2011: Lewis Hamilton confirmed to reporters on the eve of the inaugural Indian Grand Prix weekend that he has split with singer celebrity girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger

October 24, 2011: Martin Brundle is expected to join Sky as a co-commentator for the 2012 season, as the BBC downsizes to covering ten races per season live

October 19, 2011: Rumours are circulating Lewis Hamilton's relationship with Nicole Scherzinger is in trouble

October 10, 2011: While Sebastian Vettel was being crowned F1's youngest double world champion in Japan, the Red Bull show car was tackling the world's highest motorable road on the Khardung-La pass in India

October 3, 2011: Should Formula One not pan out for Jaime Alguersuari, the Spanish driver has a promising second career as a pop star

September 21, 2011: Red Bull has released the fully edited video of its trip to Austin Texas earlier this year when it visited the Circuit of the Americas, home to next year's US Grand Prix

September 8, 2011: Toro Rosso's Jaime Alguersuari is to launch his debut music album "Organic Life" on September 14.

August 31, 2011: Legendary F1 designer Gordon Murray will join Group Lotus as part of its advisory council for its road car division

August 25, 2011: A Toro Rosso transporter was involved in an accident with another lorry en route to the Spa-Francorchamps circuit for the Belgian Grand Prix.