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Yes, like us, you probably read it in AutoSprout but now you only need to look in one place to jog your memory as to who might be driving where next season, what team might be looking at which risingest young star, which anonymous egg-head will be burning the midnight oil working on improved valve-guide seals to which engine, which multi-national conglomerate will be wasting the hard-earned cash of its customers and shareholders on which square inch of decal transfer, and some other stuff.

Just look through the table below, where we use the following conventions to indicate a team's choice of drivers, test drivers, engine, tyres, sponsors, management and technicians:

•	Bold:	as near as we can tell, absolutely certain, barring a sudden change in sponsor and a big, fat, contract-breaking pay-out.
•	Normal text:	probables, possibles and outside chancers. Or downright no-hopers with good agents.
•	Struck through:	Who or what's been in contention, and then suddenly out of contention again, including this year's drivers who've been given the finger.

Items that have been added or updated within the last ten days are marked with a

, most of the column headings can be clicked to sort the table by that column and hovering over the abbreviations in the "SERIES" column will display a full explanation of that abbreviation.

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SERIES	TEAM	ELEMENT	ROLE	COMMENTS

F1	ART	ART	Team	Now that his dad's the FIA president, ART co-owner Nicolas Todt has decided that he might submit an entry for 2011. He probably fancies his chances almost as much as he fancies his step-mother.
F1	Durango	Durango	Team	They've applied for the 13th team slot and they have a lot of F3000 and GP2 experience, so it's a strong possibility that they'll get it. They could do with changing their name to something that sounds better though.
F1	Epsilon Euskadi	Epsilon Euskadi	Team	Having failed to get the nod for a 2010 entry, they're going to try again for 2011. Best of luck, lads.
F1	Ferrari	Felipe Massa	Driver	They obviously see something in him that we don't, so he's been signed until 2012. Presumably that means Rob Smedley's there for at least that long too, otherwise little Felipe will need to find a new comfort blanket.
F1	Ferrari	Fernando Alonso	Driver	He's there until 2012, however much his form might fluctuate.
F1	Ferrari	Robert Kubica	Driver	There are plenty of rumours and he's done more than enough to deserve a top-line drive. But does it have to be with bloody Ferrari?
F1	McLaren	Hugo Boss	Sponsor	The deal has been extended into a record-breaking 30th year. Erm..., jolly good.
F1	Mercedes GP	Michael Schumacher	Driver	He's got the kind of multi-year deal a multiple world champion no doubt expects, even if his form is less convicing than he'd like.
F1	Mercedes GP	Nico Rosberg	Driver	He's very well-mannered, we'll concede that, but we still don't like him as a driver.
F1	Red Bull	Mark Webber	Driver	He's in "the form of his life", as every article on him is keen to remind us, so a one-year extension to his contract was probably a pretty easy decision to come to.
F1	Red Bull	Sebastian Vettel	Driver	Well, would you get rid of him?
F1	Red Bull	Kimi Raikkonen	Driver	Rumour has it that Kimi is high on Red Bull's shopping list as a team-mate for Sebastian Vettel. Not a bad line-up, that.
F1	Red Bull	Mercedes	Engine	They tried to get a deal in place for 2010 but ended up with puny Renault powerplants instead. We wouldn't bet a huge amount on that situation continuing.
F1	Red Bull	Renault	Engine	The team reckons it's around 30bhp down on some engines, which must be enough to tempt them to look elsewhere.
F1	Renault	Robert Kubica	Driver	He consistently transcends the level of the car and does so without making a mistake worthy of the name, so the team would love to keep him, even if he is grumpiness personified during free practice.
F1	Stefan GP	Stefan GP	Team	Not put off by failing to get a grid spot for 2010, even after the collapse of USF1, Stefan GP will try again for 2011. Persistent, if nothing else.

KEY TO SERIES NAMES (hovering over the abbreviations in the table above also shows the full series name)


F1	Formula 1 The world's most prominent, most expensive and frequently most tedious single-seater series.