Caterham's Heikki Kovalainen has escaped any sanction from the race stewards for an incident that happened with Marussia's Timo Glock during the United States Grand Prix.
Ferrari have confirmed that they are analysing whether to change the gearbox in Felipe Massa's car due to an 'unspecified problem', which could see Massa drop five grid positions.
Lewis Hamilton has called on the FIA to organise a clean sweep of the starting grid before today's race, to ensure that cars starting off the racing line aren't unfairly penalised.
Team bosses admit that going up against NASCAR finale is unfortunate for USGP, but agree that F1 needs to make Austin event work for it in future years.
Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton have said that they can't be worried about influencing the F1 title battle while competing for victory in the final two rounds of 2012.
Thursday FIA press conference from Austin, Texas with Pedro de la Rosa, Lewis Hamilton, Sergio Perez, Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen
Alan Gow: As with almost any regulation, particularly new ones, they are 'tweaked' based on experience gained - and that's exactly what we are doing here...