Let’s round up all the news from over the weekend.

Honda - The Honda F1 team have finally announced their testing plans. The team were absent from last weeks testing, and look to be coming to this weeks Valencia session to make up for it.

The team will initially run a modified RA107 car, and use that as a base for settings and testing the performance of the RA108 later in the week, this surprisingly before it’s official launch on the 29th. The cars will run in the interim white colour scheme, so we will have to wait for the launch to see the new earth saving design.

Williams - After running the FW29′B’ car in testing last week, Williams today showed off it’s 2008 car, the FW30.

The car was shown in the second of the teams commemorative colour schemes as Nico Hulkenberg (test driver) took the car out on the track at Valencia, on a suitably moody foggy day at the track.

Renault - The French team were also planning on soft launching their 2008 car today at Valencia, however they have postponed it due to the fog covering the track.

The R28, will therefore be seen for the first time tomorrow (Tuesday). However it seems that Fernando has done some decent work on the R27 to get it performing much better than the team managed last season. So with some luck the team should show itself better this year, at the end of the day they had better, or else they will see Fernando leave again.

McLaren - Ron Dennis has talked about the FIA approved (Microsoft) McLaren Electronics Systems package.

He says that the other teams have nothing to fear, and that it has not been quite as easy as some tams thought for them to integrate the system. The deal was tendered and announced in 2006, and other electronics systems providers tendered for the project, at the end of the day the M.E.S system was the most cost effective. The teams will have to use the McLaren electronics up to the 2010 season, when we will probably see the introduction of energy recovery systems into the sport.

FIA - Talking of the electronics, the FIA have done something else to annoy the teams, the SuperLicense.

All of the drivers that compete in F1 must have one, and they have to renew it every year.

The FIA have recently put the cost’s of the 2008 License up. Last year the license cost 1690 Euros plus 447 Euros per point earned in the previous season. From 2008 on the price takes a dramatic jump to 10000 Euros, plus 2000 Euros per point. In other words, Kimi or Ferrari more likely, is looking at the thick end of 230000 Euros for the License.

Toyota - As well as testing their TF107′B’ and TF108 at the circuit last week, the team also took their ominously absent second TF108 chassis to Menorca’s Real Aeroclub de Mahon air strip. The runway at the Air Strip is a very long flat piece of tarmac, that the McLaren and Ferrari cars also used last year for straight line speed testing. Toyota took the second TF108 to the runway for the same test’s it seems. Perhaps Toyota are learning that the wind tunnel results do not always tell the whole story.

Toro Rosso - Dietrich Mateschitz, Red Bull and Toro Rosso (and Roy Scheider look alike) has publicly stated that the Red Bull Junior team is not for sale.

The STR team is joint owned by Red Bull and Gehard Berger, and has been rumoured that it is for sale. However the Austrian told Kleine Zeitung “In Formula One you can never say never, but at the moment this is not news.“. So the Red Bull squads are to stay as they are.

Super Aguri - The Honda offshoot team has also been in the news recently. They too are rumoured to be involved in a buyout, but this time by Spanish millionaire Alejandro Agag.

That name may not mean anything to you, but he is the man behind the Adrian Campos GP2 team. The team has however denied these rumours, as it would likely mean an end to Anthony Davidson’s drive for the team. The team also look to not be representing themselves at this weeks test at Valencia. It looks like the overheating issues they had last week have still not been solved.

So we are looking forward to another interesting week of testing, with some of the new cars like the Williams, Honda and Renault on show, it could be worth watching.

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