Nicola Larini was testing for the Ferrari team at Monza (Italy) today. He was working on the aerodynamics at speeds of 250 km/h for next year's car. He covered 73 laps in the test F310.

Shinji Nakano has performed another test for the Ligier-Mugen team on the Barcelona (Spain) circuit. He clocked a best time of 1m 24.60s over 66 laps. Nakano is still the most likely candidate for the second seat at the Ligier team, one reason for this is that Mugen wants to see a Japanese driver with their engines.

• The new 1997 Ferrari will be ready before Christmas if everything goes according to plan. Jean Todt stated: "The new car will be presented on December 20th."

• Damon Hill is going to increase his salary six times in the next two months. He will sign some sponsor and advertising deals to increase his salary from about 0,8 million US dollars to about 5 million a month.