[Wayne Maybury]

The only existing teams to actually sign on so far, for next year are Williams and Force India. F1 claims that Ferrari must race next year whether they want to or not. Ferrari claims that this is based on some out dated old agreement between them and F1. It sounds like the lawyers are going to be making big bucks on this.

An interesting development is that 15 new teams applied, and 3 were accepted for the F1 2010 season. The new teams are from Spain, Britain, and the US. Cosworth will be providing engines for all 3 newcomers and this marks Cosworth's return to F1 after being away for a few years.

I have attended the Canadian Grand Prix for quite a few years and I was very disappointed when Canada was dropped from the 2009 schedule. The talk is that we are going to get the race back again in 2010 but I am beginning to wonder what F1 will be like if all of the top teams drop out.

By the way, the Canadian Grand Prix was replaced this year by a race in Turkey where only 47,000 people showed up. Bernie lost a bundle so now he is looking to come back to Montreal.

Wayne