In the round-up: Lewis Hamilton expects to get a new McLaren deal signed in August.
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Top F1 links from the past 24 hours:
Lewis Hamilton says McLaren contract to be decided during summer break (The Guardian)
'We haven't sat down and discussed anything yet. But I'm sure over the summer break, when we have the summer break, it would be nice to get something in place.'
Whitmarsh: FIA must be part of F1 deal (Autosport)
'You can have a purely commercial agreement [between the teams and Ecclestone], but if you are competing in the FIA championship then if you don't have a tripartite agreement it can be inherently confusing.'
BBC saves £150m in Formula 1 deal with Sky (The Telegraph)
'Chief operating officer of the BBC news group Dominic Coles: 'It is quite possible the sport may have ended up exclusively on pay TV if we had not successfully negotiated the deal.''
German Grand Prix Preview (HRT)
'Dani Clos will step into the F112 once more for the first free practice session on Friday and for the third time this season will join Pedro de la Rosa on the track. Narain Karthikeyan, who didn't take part in last year's German Grand Prix, will return to the cockpit in FP2.'
Bruno Senna Receives the Lorenzo Bandini Trophy (Williams)
Bruno Senna: 'It's a huge honour to be chosen to receive such a prestigious award. I've seen some of the names who have won this in the past and what they have gone on to achieve in their careers, so let's hope this is just the start of greater things for me too.'
Russia promises 'top-class' F1 circuit (ESPN)
Mikhail Kapirulin, director general circuit constructors Omega: 'We solved all the problems in projecting the track. We're building the track in tight co-operation with our colleagues, who are building Olympic venues in Sochi. It makes us confident that we will build a top-class racing track in Sochi. It will be a great track.'
Comment of the day
Thoughts on Maria de Villota's crash from Chris_H:
You would find trucks and race cars mixed together in the paddock of almost all club racing and a lot of national and international series.
I work for a team which race in a support series for the British F3 and British GT series, and its common place to see race cars driving around the paddock maneuvering around trucks with the tail lifts at all manner of angles and heights. On many occasions I've had to thread one of our cars between trucks and team vehicles, with people also walking with little care for the vehicles trying to get through.
Unfortunately motor racing by its nature is unsafe, whether that be at top speed on the track or much slower through the paddock.
Chris_H
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On this day in F1
Ten years ago today Renault team boss Flavio Briatore confirmed the team's test driver Fernando Alonso would race in 2003.
Alonso drove for the team and quickly delivered on his promise with pole position in the Malaysian Grand Prix and eventually a maiden F1 win in Hungary.
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