It’s been kind of a dull week in motorsport, which is impressive given that there was an extraordinary meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council.

The Formula 1 news has of course been well reported, and indeed I’ve briefly opined about it on Twitter. McLaren’s suspended ban for lying, the optional £40m budget cap – mainly stuff we already knew, just being confirmed. There were details of course, but nothing really to write home about.

It wasn’t all about Formula 1 though. Drivers in the Formula Two championship this year will be able to drop their two poorest results, to reduce the impact of any unreliability of the brand new car. Sensible, but not world shaking news.

There was intriguing news concerning the World Rally Championship though. Specifically concerning the 2010 calendar, which was due to be mutually exclusive to the 2009 calendar, to form a two-year rotation system.

Not so now though, as two of the new rounds – Indonesia and Russia – have failed an FIA inspection, and will therefore not form part of the 2010 championship.

Remember the grumblings over Wales Rally GB a couple of weeks ago? Backing from the Welsh Assembly Government was in question over the event not being part of the 2010 calendar. But the event organisers were under the impression that Wales Rally GB would yet be a WRC event in 2010.

This is clearly why. The FIA has stated that the gaps in the 2010 calendar will be filled by “proven existing events that have run this year”. The clever money, therefore, is on Wales Rally GB being one of those events.

Also, bizarrely, Rally Monte Carlo “may ask to rejoin the calendar in 2011 rather than 2010″. Not sure what that’s about. Maybe it’s happy with the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, which it was part of this year.