Hello chums, it’s been a while hasn’t it? Hope you haven’t been missing your weekly dose of inane Formula 1 chitter chatter too much, let’s see what we’ve missed shall we?

Let me see…let me see….ah Sebastian Vettel still winning is he? Lewis still hitting people is he? Good to see nothing’s changed then. Here’s the best (or worst) of what has been said this week in Formula 1.

MP-eed off

So whose been a naughty boy then? Bernie I’m looking at you….. what? It’s not you? Well I never. Anyway, Lib Dem spokesman for watching television, I mean Culture, Media and Sport Don Foster squared up to the might of Sky, the BBC and dear ol’ Bernie, looked them square in the eyes, gritted his teeth and….wrote a letter to the Beeb’s Director General Mark Thompson as the controversy surrounding broadcasting rights for 2012 and beyond rumbled on. Oooh he’s so macho isn’t he.

“I do not believe this result promotes the best interest of license fee payers and motor racing fans,” he snivelled.

“I believe the best result would have been for the rights to remain with a free to air broadcaster, even if this was not the BBC.”

Right so we have established that the best interests of the fans is not to line Rupert Murdoch’s pockets with gold because of that letter. Thank heavens for Members of Parliament.

Whiting can’t strike twice

The boffins over at the FIA have got together, banged out a few sums and after Charlie Whiting finally ambled over to Delhi, have decided that the Indian Grand Prix probably can take place. The Track “exceeds expectations” apparently. Begs the question; just how low are the FIA’s expectations?

“He stated the progress was more than satisfactory and exceeded expectations from when he last visited the site,“ owner of the most masculine name in F1 and head of Indian motorsport,Vicky Chandhok said.

“He also expressed confidence the inaugural Indian Grand Prix will be a huge success.”

Is this the same Charlie who gave the all clear to the Korean Grand Prix while confused looking men frantically built roads and watered plants? Excellent.

Bruno goes for the knockout

Look, let’s get one thing straight. Bruno Senna earned his drive with Renault fair and square ok? It was nothing to do with money or sponsorship or anything like that, so you can keep your jokes to yourselves.

“If you look at the team then there are no new logos on the car or on myself.” Senna said before the Belgian Grand Prix with a barely contained smile as he tucked a twenty in to the top pocket of man management expert and Renualt fat cat Eric Boullier.

Anyway, in unrelated news that has nothing to do with anything mentioned above, Senna was seen sporting two new sponsors logo’s in Spa, including that of global mega company Gillette major Brazilian oil company OGX.

Vote for Pedro

McLaren have always been an astute bunch, all the way down to their test drivers. So it comes as no surprise that tea boy and occasional test driver Pedro De La Rosa took off his lab coat, pondered over his economics degree, and glanced at his Nobel Peace prize before musing:

“Forgetting the calculator now, and accepting that there is already virtually a winner of this world championship, we can begin to think of 2012 and how to avoid at all costs the domination of Red Bull being prolonged for another season.”

The certificate for “stating the bloody obvious” is in the post. All that remains to figure out is how he did it without his trust calculator he “forgot”.

For all the reaction to the 2011 Belgian Grand Prix, click here. You can also join in the post-race debate on Twitter and Facebook and get involved as we begin the build up to the Italian Grand Prix.

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