Rumours were flying around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Friday that Scott Speed was set to walk out of Dragon Racing's Indy bid after a series of bad-tempered rows between driver and crew.
The famous yellow-and-gold livery of early Renaults in F1 - a colour scheme that partly earned the 1977 model the nickname the 'Yellow Teapot' - is back on the 2010 R30, launched in Valencia today
Renault has finally confirmed who will be racing alongside Robert Kubica at the newly-owned Enstone-based outfit in F1 2010 - and in Russian GP2 Series front-runner Vitaly Petrov, they have taken a chance on a man who has never previously driven a grand prix car
Kamui Kobayashi could yet be joined on the F1 2010 grid by countrymen Takuma Sato and Kazuki Nakajima should speculation turn out to be true, with the former being linked with the second seat at Renault and the latter with a drive at Campos under new ownership
Renault is believed to be evaluating as many as four alternatives regarding the sale of its Enstone-based F1 operation for 2010 - with Prodrive chief David Richards and BAR-Honda founder Craig Pollock ostensibly battling it out to assume control...