In an interview with the esteemed Nigel Roebuck, McLaren boss Ron Dennis has said that he has no intention of taking Kimi Raikkonen 'in hand' following a number of highly publicised incidents involving his star driver.

"I categorically refuse to tell either him or any other driver how to run their lives," says Dennis in Autosport magazine. "Why? Because that never works. All you can do is lay everything out very clearly, and give people an understanding of what is the right way to go, and what is the wrong way."

On the subject of wild nights out, if what we hear is true, other teams appear to be not quite as accommodating as McLaren. We hear that one team has suspended an employee who went a little OTT with the company credit card, running up a bill of £8,000 on a night out not totally dissimilar to Kimi's. Priceless.

Furthermore, our sources tell us that a team has been rocked by the news that one of its employees has been named - and subsequently arrested - in a drug scandal that involves a prominent member of the British (non-F1) racing fraternity who was only just re-establishing himself following a previous (similar) 'bust' that ended in incarceration.