So, it’s the British Grand Prix. I’m not actually going to Silverstone at any point over the weekend, but at least I’m in the country – so that’s one up on last year.

Fear not though, it’s not going to stop me from churning out my own brand of nonsense related to the shenanigans going on just off the A43. Which is an annoying road at the best of times, with all its bloody roundabouts, so in some ways I’m blessed not to be heading up there. Sort of.

So what’s the story so far?

The shock news came late yesterday that Bruno Senna is out of Hispania for the weekend, to be replaced by Sakon Yamamoto. Why? The team has refused to say at the time of writing, though a statement is expected today, presumably on the team’s website.

The other shocking news of the weekend came on Twitter yesterday morning: Will Buxton relayed the news that the TV in the media centre was showing Jeremy Kyle yesterday morning. Not a warm welcome for anyone, surely.

There were a couple of other good bits on Twitter yesterday.

McLaren‘s The Fifth Driver followed the team’s drivers making their way to Silverstone in the Vodafone VIP campervan. It’s annoyingly cool for a corporate wagon, as this photo demonstrates.

Nigel Mansell is the former driver advising the stewards this weekend, and Claire Williams shared a really nice photo of Sir Frank Williams with his former world champion driver.

It’s particularly timely, as we also learned that Sir Frank Williams is stepping down as chairman of the team. Williams remains team principal, which is good news; it will be a sad day when he steps back completely.

Ferrari unveiled a new logo. If you’ve not seen it yet, it’s literally as exciting as you’d expect it to be. Mainly they’ve got rid of that pesky controversial barcode.

Being British, I can’t not mention the weather. It’s looking good. The man to consult for the definitive view is always BBC weatherman Ian Ferguson, who blogs in great detail about the weather prospects for every race. His analysis is that it’s going to be warm, with a smallish chance of showers on Sunday.

More good stuff from the BBC: we mere mortals will have available to us FOM’s driver tracker, which shows the position of each driver in real time on a map of the circuit. Excellent! It’s just a trial this weekend, but I can’t imagine it not being rolled out for the rest of the season. It’ll be on the BBC website during the race, alongside the rest of the live video, audio and text coverage.

As an aside, James Allen was the first one I saw with that news, followed by Joe Saward – both on Wednesday. It’s curious that the BBC didn’t go public itself at the same time: the blog from the BBC’s Andrew Benson only went up yesterday morning.

Right, not long to go to first practice.