It is now eight days since Maria De Villota’s accident at Duxford Airfield in her debut test for the Team. In a further release of information by Marussia, the team says that the Spanish driver is making good progress despite the severe injuries she suffered at the Duxford test.

Singapore's Today newspaper is quoting Bernie Ecclestone saying that a new five year Singapore GP deal has been agreed until the end of 2017. The news comes in the same week that the iconic Spa circuit is believed to have struck a three-year deal safeguarding the Belgian GP until the end of 2015.

When Bernie Ecclestone spoke about his desire to host a grand prix on the streets of London last month few saw it as anything more than another example of him floating a vision that was never likely to get off the ground. The more cynical pointed out the timing owed more to the need to deflect attention onto something - anything -but him in the light of the jailing of Gerhard Gribkowsky.

But speaking to the Guardian, Ecclestone insists he is serious and is already working on the scheme.

"An external forensic investigation was commissioned and carried out at Duxford Airfield (a FIA-approved and much used testing venue, compliant with the recommendations for a test of this nature) and with the team at the Marussia Technical Centre in Banbury. This external analysis has been carried out autonomously of the team's own internal investigation.