Zoom A fact finding trip for Ecclestone to Beijing

Bernie Ecclestone has been spotted at the Olympic Games in Beijing. But the F1 Chief Executive is not just there to while away the days in Formula One's August break, according to the British newspaper Daily Telegraph.

Ecclestone, 77, is instead at the Olympic velodrome ‘to see if he might learn something’ from Dave Brailsford, the Performance Director for the British cycling team, the newspaper said. Bailsford has been hailed for overseeing the cycling team's notable showing in China.

Singapore seems headed for a sell out, but the same cannot be said of the other new venue on the 2008 Formula One calendar, Valencia.

It emerged this week that about 100,000 of the 106,000 race-day tickets for the Singapore night race, to be held under lights at the end of September, have already been snapped up, almost guaranteeing a full house. But the same cannot be said of the European Grand Prix, being held for the first time this weekend on the streets of the Spanish port city Valencia.

The German news agency SID claims that not all of the 112,000 tickets for Sunday have been sold.

Adrian Sutil is sporting a new colour-scheme for his helmet. The German driver has reportedly adapted his usual multi-coloured yellow, orange and green livery to better match his current team, Force India.

25-year-old Sutil's new helmet, like the VJM01, therefore now features burgundy and gold as its base colours.

Source: GMM
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