HRT refugee Vitantonio Liuzzi has re-emerged on the grid of the Italian-based touring car series Superstars.
Despite having a 2012 contract, the 30-year-old Italian lost his race seat at the struggling Spanish team HRT for this year to the well-backed Indian Narain Karthikeyan.

So, in 2012, he will race a Mercedes C63 AMG – which he tested last week at Monza – in the Maurizio Flammini-organised Superstars series.

Also on the grid will be former F1 drivers Christian Fittipaldi, Mika Salo, Gianni Morbidelli and Johnny Herbert.

“I’m persuaded that Superstars is a great choice to open yourself to other categories than F1,” said Liuzzi.

The season begins in April at Monza, then moving on to Imola, Donington, Mugello, the Hungaroring, Spa, Portimao, Vallelunga and Sentul (Indonesia).

Since 2005, Liuzzi also raced in F1 with Red Bull, Toro Rosso and Force India.

Felipe Massa has revealed he is still “angry and disappointed” with his 2008 championship rival Lewis Hamilton.
The pair had a minor on-track incident in Singapore two weeks ago and later clashed again in the television interview ‘pen’.

But what really angered Massa, he confided to German television RTL, was that the McLaren driver refused to make eye-contact when he wanted to privately discuss the track incident afterwards.

“I’m still angry and also disappointed on the human level,” said the Brazilian. “Unfortunately I was not able to reach him by phone either.

“He behaves like a superstar. I’m not going anywhere but he will have to come to me,” added Massa.

The commentators for BBC radio in Japan on Friday morning revealed that Hamilton seemed close to tears as he spoke to reporters 24 hours ago.

“Am I in the best place in my life? No, there’s been a lot of negative stories,” said the Briton.

As for Massa’s attitude? “I’m just focusing on my own racing. Maybe he should do the same,” added Hamilton.

As the 2010 world championship battles heats up, so too is the competitive rivalry between Red Bull’s teammates.

Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel are openly not friends, but with just two races to go this season and 14 points between them, some believe Vettel should now be helping his Australian teammate to the title.

“I am not giving up,” 23-year-old German Vettel said on Thursday in an interview with the DPA press agency.

“It would be stupid to give up the belief in the title. I will continue to fight,” he promised.

Vettel was asked whether he has a cooperative “deal” in place with Webber as the season winds down.

“That is too far away,” he answered. “I must just concentrate on my performance.”

Earlier this week, Webber indicated Vettel is only regarded as the team’s “superstar” because of his young age.

Vettel’s apparent rejoinder is a barb about the pair’s exits from the recent Korean grand prix, with Webber crashing and Vettel retiring with an engine failure.

“Let’s put it this way: I would have been far more disappointed if I had thrown away the car over a personal fault,” said the German.

He said he is not worried about losing the support of his team in deference to Webber.

“I know that my team supports me and that I don’t have to be worried,” answered Vettel.

Mark Webber insists he is not concerned that it is Sebastian Vettel, and not himself, who is regarded as the star of the Red Bull team.

Australian Webber is better placed in the points standings than his German colleague Vettel, but team figures are insisting upon a situation of driver equality for the remaining two races of 2010.

Experts believe the situation is a reflection of the fact that it is 23-year-old Vettel who is the darling of the Austrian team.

“It doesn’t bother me at all,” Webber said in an interview with the Italian magazine Autosprint.

“I am 34 years old and I think it’s great that I’m still at the top level and as competitive as I am,” he added.

“If I was ten years younger and was getting the same results, I’m sure you’d all think I’m the superstar.

“I think the only difference is that Vettel is young. I don’t really see him working any differently than, say, Heikki (Kovalainen) at Lotus,” said Webber.

“I think the best way to judge someone is to consider the consistency of their results,” he added.

Rubens Barrichello feels with his friend and countryman Felipe Massa set the tiresome topic stable government finally over
The Sorrows of Felipe Massa Rubens Barrichello can understand very well. The Williams driver had in his Ferrari-times do often enough behind team leader Michael Schumacher. The same experiences his Landsann now in the shadow of the superstar Fernando Alonso. “That such things happen, is the reason why I have often changed the team,” said Barrichello, who was sick role as number two.

Under the real joy of the journalists present, the Brazilian said on Thursday at the press conference: “If I were a ‘Bad Guy’ has to be to be world champion, then I’d rather the world title. Such a world champion I do not want to be. Permit me has brought up my father, so I raise my boys. So I’m happy. ”
“The drivers have to each other go, all, this is the sense of racing. And if I end up with a point for the world title is missing, then so be it,” Barrichello said after the Ferrari team orders last Sunday in Hockenheim. “I’m very sorry for him. Felipe is a friend and I would have liked him that he must not do this experience. He feels the same now as I have felt many times.”

While the views of many team leaders and partly also the drivers for the abolition of the prohibition order-stable, Barrichello has a different view. “We must do something to make the stop. Otherwise it will end at some point in a great drama. It is in the hands of the top people to change that. You should clean may go against each other. What did you do it when you win the World Cup only because someone gave you points? “