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REMEMBER WHERE YOU READ IT FIRST!

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 red dot, 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.

WHO AND WHAT IS GOING WHERE IN 

SERIES TEAM ELEMENT ROLE COMMENTS
  BF3C Carlin Brendon Hartley Driver The first Red Bull backed driver in BF3 since Scott Speed... oh dear...
  BF3C Carlin Jaime Alguersuari Driver
  BF3C Carlin Oliver Turvey Driver A prestigious drive for the Sprout McLap'em award winner they're pointedly not calling Kevin.
  BF3C Carlin Sam Abay Driver
  BF3C Double R Racing Ali Jackson Driver
  BF3C Double R Racing Atte Mustonen Driver The Sprout rate him second best BF3 driver of 2007. He's a little too Felipe Massa for me.
  BF3C Double R Racing John Martin Driver A 'tough' first year in BF3 with ADR is rewarded with a decent drive
  BF3C Double R Racing Henry Arundel Driver The FBMWUK front-runner is "hotly tipped" for the seat
  BF3C Fortec Philip Major Driver
  BF3C Fortec Sebastian Hohenthal Driver Fortec or Hitech? Where's he least likely to get beaten up?
  BF3C Hitech Sebastian Hohenthal Driver Hitech or Fortec? Anywhere he won't upstage a pair of duff sons of a great racing driver.
  BF3C Joe Tandy Racing Mygale Chassis
  BF3C Joe Tandy Racing Nick Tandy Driver The official Big Brother squad.
  BF3C Manor Stefan Wilson Driver The surprise M/A/B award winner and brother of Justin looks set to tempt Manor back to British F3. Huzzah!
  BF3C P1 Motorsport Dallara Chassis Roly's got one "on order".
  BF3C P1 Motorsport Oliver Oakes Driver Now he's short of Red Bull sponsorship, how much cash can he get from Fortt's Bath Olivers and Nairn's Oatcakes?
  BF3N CF Racing Dallara Chassis
  BF3N CF Racing Hywel Lloyd Driver Nepotism's a wonderful thing for the FRenault BARC champion.
  BF3N Fluid Dallara Chassis It's an ex-Mansell one: so it's probably got an imprint of Seb Hohenthal on it somewhere.
  BF3N Fluid Jay Bridger Driver
  BF3N Nexa Dallara Chassis Movin' on up from FBMW with a couple of Dallaras
  EF3 ART James Jakes Driver
  EF3 ART Jon Lancaster Driver
  EF3 ART Jules Bianchi Driver
  EF3 ART Niko Hulkenberg Driver
  EF3 ART ART Team ASM... ART... does anyone know what they stand for?
  EF3 ASM Marcus Ericsson Driver Perhaps changing their name was part of a plan to get out of any contract with him...,
  EF3 ASM ASM Team The long-term confusion about ART/ASM is finally settled. Not that anyone outside the team(s) was confused.
  EF3 Carlin Carlin Team The Chessington team's recent failure to break into GP2 won't stop their world domination plans.
  EF3 Manor Kazuya Oshima Driver We understand Penelope Keith is really big in Japan, where Kazuya was F3 champ in 2007.
  EF3 Manor Koudai Tsukakoshi Driver Oh oh, big in Japaaaa-an..., where Koudai won F3 races in 2007.
  EF3 Manor Niall Breen Driver To The Manor Breen
  EF3 Manor Sam Bird Driver To The Manor Bird
  EF3 Mucke Motorsport Erik Janis Driver Support from Merc gets the Next Tomas Enge™ a full-time ride. Man.
  EF3 Mucke Motorsport Mercedes Engine
  EF3 Prema Powerteam Renger van der Zande Driver Apparently turned down a GP2 drive! Nutter!
  EF3 RC Motorsport Martin Plowman Driver
  EF3 RC Motorsport Franky Cheng Driver
  EF3 RC Motorsport Jens Klingmann Driver
  EF3 RC Motorsport Maxi Gotz Driver
  EF3 RC Motorsport Volkswagen Engine
  EF3 Signature Edoardo Mortara Driver
  EF3 Signature Volkswagen Engine
  FFUK Acer Comtec Chassis Bit of a come-down from Prost F1 days... or then again...
  FFUK Acer Ray Chassis Say one thing, do the other - that's Acer. But they're still using the Ray for testing while it's up for sale...,
  FFUK Acer Jamie Jardine Driver
  FFUK Acer Premier Engine
  FFUK Comtec Comtec Chassis It's a Spirit really, but those boys in funky blue and yellow have bought out the two-men-in-a-shed operation.
  FFUK Comtec Francesco Wieller Driver 16-year-old Brazilian karter
  FFUK Comtec Westley Barber Driver An unprecedented return for the 2002 champion they're calling 'Skip A Few Years' Barber.
  FFUK Comtec Chris Holmes Driver Looks like our friend James guessed wrong.
  FFUK Comtec Scholar Engine
  FFUK Delta Spirit Chassis "Ex-Ruth Senior mule" it says 'ere.
  FFUK Delta Felix Scott Driver
  FFUK Fluid Van Diemen Chassis
  FFUK Fluid David Brown Driver Oh, what a dull name...,
  FFUK Fluid Jovan Aćimić Driver Crazy name..., Serbia & Montenegroish guy
  FFUK Fluid Marco Sorensen Driver The first Danissshhhh driver to gain from Fluid's new Danissshhhh connection. Insert bacon pun here.
  FFUK Fluid Mountune Engine
  FFUK Getem Getem Chassis Seems everyone's building their own chassis these days
  FFUK Getem Mygale Chassis
  FFUK Getem Chris Maliepaard Driver Driving a Getem Mygale
  FFUK Getem Jason Down Driver He'll be racing the new Getem 08 chassis at selected rounds
  FFUK Getem Linton Stutely Driver Driving a Getem Mygale
  FFUK Getem Premier Engine
  FFUK Getem Linton Sponsor As soon as we find out what Linton Stutely is selling, we'll let you know...,
  FFUK Inter Motorsport Van Diemen Chassis Thanks for changing your team name, guys.
  FFUK Inter Motorsport Matt Dobson Driver
  FFUK Inter Motorsport Ollie Roberts Driver
  FFUK Inter Motorsport Scholar Engine
  FFUK Jamun Mygale Chassis
  FFUK Jamun Tim Blanchard Driver
  FFUK Jamun Wayne Boyd Driver
  FFUK Jamun Adrian Campfield Driver
  FFUK Jamun Scholar Engine
  FFUK Joe Tandy Racing Mygale Chassis
  FFUK Joe Tandy Racing Matt Hamilton Driver (No relation)
  FFUK Joe Tandy Racing Philippe Layac Driver
  FFUK Joe Tandy Racing Rogier de Wit Driver
  FFUK Joe Tandy Racing Freddie Hunt Driver Lock up your grid-girls - the Shunt is back
  FFUK Joe Tandy Racing Premier Engine
  FFUK Juno Mountune Engine
  FFUK Kevin Mills Racing Spectrum Chassis Kevin says he wants a chassis from a dedicated FF supplier.
  FFUK Kevin Mills Racing Van Diemen Chassis Might still run one after all for Ollie Roberts
  FFUK Kevin Mills Racing Adrian Campfield Driver With a Spectrum. Hold on, isn't he a DJ on Xfm?
  FFUK Kevin Mills Racing Glen Wood Driver Apparently, if you buy an Australian chassis, you get an Australian driver free.
  FFUK Kevin Mills Racing Nelson Mason Driver
  FFUK Kevin Mills Racing Ollie Roberts Driver
  FFUK Kevin Mills Racing David Brown Driver He flowed to Fluid
  FFUK LGT LGT Engine ...and gearbox apparently...
  FFUK Marque Cars Ray Chassis Good choice for Team Scuderia there...,
  FFUK Marque Cars Joey Foster Driver/Coach Good choice of driver/coach for Team Team there..., or possibly coach driver, we're not sure.
  FFUK Marque Cars Scholar Engine Good choice for Equipe Racing there...,
  FFUK Myerscough College Van Diemen Chassis Ex-works development car.
  FFUK Myerscough College Alex Jones Driver
  FFUK Nexa Valle Makela Driver If returning to FFord and hiring a former champion is good enough for Comtec, it's good enough for Nexa.
  FFUK Palmer Ray Chassis Oh, please, not another extension of the MSV empire...,
  FFUK Palmer Chrissy Palmer Driver Oh please, not another extension of the MSV empire...,
  FFUK Palmer Premier Engine
  FFUK Ray Sport Ray Chassis No surprise there.
  FFUK Ray Sport Jesse Krohn Driver
  FFUK Ray Sport Scholar Engine
  FFUK Remita Racing Mygale Chassis
  FFUK Remita Racing Freddie Hunt Driver
  FFUK Remita Racing Marcus Weller Driver A man who needs a coach, apparently.
  FFUK Remita Racing Nelson Mason Driver
  FFUK Remita Racing Nathan Freke Driver/Coach The Freke gets a well-deserved driver/coach role... or a disappointing job as a coach driver. We never tire of that hackneyed old cliché.
  FFUK Remita Racing Scholar Engine
  FFUK Sceptre Mygale Chassis