Formula One News — May 2012

Michael Schumacher has followed up his post-Bahrain criticism of Pirelli's F1 control rubber with another pop at the Italian tyres.

Spaniard Jaime Alguersuari, who lost his Toro Rosso seat at the end of 2011, is having his first outing as a Pirelli test driver at Jerez this week.

Force India has been hit with costs of £650,000 payable to Caterham and chief technical officer Mike Gascoyne over a case sparked by an intellectual property dispute.

As F1's only in-season test reached its conclusion at Mugello, Italy, Romain Grosjean kept Lotus at the top of the time sheets with the fastest time of the week, ahead of Sebastian Vettel.

With the proviso that testing times mean little, it is always better to be at the top of the timesheet than the bottom, and Romain Grosjean shared quickest time down to the last thousandth of a second with Kamui Kobayashi's Sauber on the second day of the year's only in-season F1 test, at Mugello.

Mark Webber is again being linked to Ferrari, to replace Felipe Massa alongside Fernando Alonso next year.