Formula One News — November 2011

Jenson Button hopes that DRS, in association with KERS, will make next weekend's penultimate round of the world championship a fitting show at what McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh regards as "probably the most futuristic and impressive circuit on the calendar."

HRT will have a KERS system in 2012, having renewed and extended its collaboration with Williams until the end of next year.

Twenty-year-old Alexander Rossi will test for Team Lotus in the Abu Dhabi young driver test.

The Formula 1 Commission is understood to have approved the F1 name-change applications that were part of the agenda at a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, today.

David Coulthard has come out firmly on the side of Felipe Massa over the Indian GP penalty that left anyone with eyes in their head incredulous.

Jean-Eric Vergne will drive the championship-winning Red Bull RB7 in the Abu Dhabi young driver tests on November 15-17.