About Music:
Mark’s tip for Seb: "Try listening to Kylie mate – she’s better than stars popular in Germany, like Scorpions or David Hasselhoff."

About Sport:
Mark’s tip for Seb: "Surfing mate. Give it a try. Nothing can go wrong… and, if you’ve got a spare year, I’ll explain the rules of cricket to you."

About Food:
Mark’s tip for Seb: "It’s very important to grill food at a barbecue. No-one will ever come round to your place if you say: ‘Let’s go and boil sausages and cabbage in a big pan in the garden’."

About Fashion:
Mark’s tip for Seb: "Thongs mate, you Europeans are crazy - you wear them on your feet, not on your bum."

About Healthy:
Mark’s tip for Seb: "This is a great city to have a broken leg fixed mate."

Source: RBR

Just like one year ago, Bernie Ecclestone is placing his pre-season bet for the drivers' title on Felipe Massa.

Prior to the 2008 season, in which 27-year-old Massa won more races than any other driver and finished one point behind champion Lewis Hamilton, the F1 Chief Executive tipped the Brazilian for the title.

In an interview on Thursday with the Daily Express, Ecclestone said: "Red Bull could be a big surprise with Sebastian Vettel. Put him in a Ferrari and he'd be as quick as anyone they have got.”

"Brawn are going well too, but my money is going on Felipe Massa again. I don't see why he shouldn't get the job done. He was quick last year but Ferrari cost him the title with their mistakes," Ecclestone added.

The Formula One world is dramatically tightening its belt but most of the top drivers will be unscathed. At tuesday's meeting of the World Motorsport Council, more radical cost cutting is expected to be rolled out by the FIA, including possible budget caps, and further test limits and car standardisations.

Formula One teams are also making their own cutbacks, including BMW, who is believed to have radically slashes it's 2009 budget for corporate hospitality. "I know that many in the team have for example had their flights downgraded, and also their hotels. Obviously more attention is being paid to (expenses)," team driver Nick Heidfeld said in an interview with Germany's DPA news agency.

However, Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel has revealed that while he flies economy, "at BMW even the test drivers are in business class!"

Heidfeld confirmed: "It doesn't affect me with the flights because my contract states which class I fly."
Source: F1SA

1. BARRICHELLO 1 :18.926 110
2. ROSBERG 1 :19.774 120
3. GLOCK 1 :20.091 128
4. VETTEL 1 :20.576 83
Source: F1Complete

1. Nico Rosberg - 1:19.774, 54
2. Rubens Barrichello - 1:19.971, 74
3. Sebastian Vettel - 1:20.678, 48

1. Jenson Button 1:19.127
2. Felipe Massa 1:20.168
3. Robert Kubica 1:20.217

6. Sebastian Vettel 1:21.165