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Not the greatest day for the Brits at the Silverstone Qualifying session. Lewis struggled with over and under steer and as a result managed to only get 19th spot on the grid.

Add to that the troubles that Jenson seemed to be having with balance in his car means that he only starts from 6th spot.

The day however was dominated by the Red Bull cars. The new aero package the team brought to the race seemed to work brilliantly. A new nose, rear wing, diffuser v2 and floor seemed to allow the drivers a very balanced and neutral cars.

Here we have invited us to take part in this competition from them.

The prize is a trip to the Valencia GP as the guest of the ING Renault team, full access to behind the scenes of the race weekend.

If your not lucky enough to win that, then there are plenty of other prizes to be had.

It seems that FOTA have announced that they will not be changing their original conditional entries, and as such have no choice but to go ahead with their own championship.

This means that Ferrari, McLaren, Renault, BMW-Sauber, Toyota, Brawn GP, Red Bull and Toro Rosso will not be taking part in next years FIA F1 Championship.

This leaves Williams, Force India, Manor, US-F1 and Campos as the only announced teams for the FIA event next year, with most of those teams currently using an engine supplied by a FOTA manufacturer.

It seems the FIA have finally announced the teams that will (potentially) be taking the grid in 2010.

SCUDERIA FERRARI MARLBORO
SCUDERIA TORO ROSSO
RED BULL RACING
AT&T WILLIAMS
FORCE INDIA F1 TEAM
CAMPOS GRAND PRIX
MANOR GRAND PRIX
TEAM US F1
VODAFONE McLAREN MERCEDES*
BMW SAUBER F1 TEAM*
RENAULT F1 TEAM*
PANASONIC TOYOTA RACING*
BRAWN GP FORMULA ONE TEAM*

The teams with a * next to them are on the provisional list, with the FIA asking the teams to lift their demands for rule changes.