A $25 million termination payment from Pastor Maldonado's sponsor helped Williams to drive back into profit. The publicly-listed British team released its 2013 financial results on Friday, showing a $20m operating profit despite a poor season on track. The Telegraph newspaper said the result was helped by a one-off termination payment made by the Venezuelan oil company PDVSA, who wanted to move their backing of driver Maldonado to the Lotus team for 2014. The report said the payment "is believed to be in the region of $25m", in the wake of a more than $8 million loss recorded by Williams just a year ago.

Changing the subject a little, does anyone have the F1 app on multiple devices? I had it on my iPad Mini, but yesterday I had an unfortunate fall into the ocean while the iPad was in my pocket. So today I bought a new one, and downloaded the F1 app, but it doesn't say I have a season pass... Does anyone have it on multiple devices (say an iPad and an iPhone) where you only had to buy it once? I'm signed into the same account. I should not have to buy it again.

and the registry office would accept a name like that?

or they would ask to change the name just like they did with Denis Bergkamp

Even with $14 million in his hand, reigning GP2 champion Fabio Leimer could not buy his way into Formula One.

The 25-year-old Swiss, who will instead race sports cars in 2014, was healthily backed by his wealthy long-time sponsor Rainer Gantenbein.

The veteran correspondent for Blick newspaper, Roger Benoit, claims Gantenbein offered Sauber almost $14 million in exchange for one of the Hinwil based team's race seats this year.

But Leimer has reportedly told some insiders that Sauber's counter-proposal was no less than $28 million -- slightly less than what Esteban Gutierrez's Mexican backers pay.

Instead, Sauber signed the experienced Adrian Sutil to be Gutierrez's new teammate.

This is starting to get mental, makes you wonder how much guy's like Chilton must bring

Maldonado paid $25m to leave Williams

Azerbaijan is taking Korea’s full-time place on the grand prix calendar starting in 2015, Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed. It is expected a city street race in the capital Baku will be announced later this month. Formula 1 chief executive Ecclestone this week indicated the oil-rich former Soviet race is taking the place on the calendar formerly occupied by South Korea, where a race at unpopular Yeongam was last held in 2013. Korean organisers have baulked at the sport’s high sanctioning fees.