BBC Sport brings you a regular round-up of the gossip in newspapers and on specialist websites around the world.

Ayrton Senna - the greatest of all time?

Asked to nominate the best driver of all time, 12 of 20 of the current crop of F1 pilots voted for Ayrton Senna. Three voted for Michael Schumacher. Full story: Crash.net

McLaren will keep the blown diffuser on its cars for the rest of the German Grand Prix weekend, despite a compromised day of practice on Friday. Full story: Autosport.com

One of Ferrari's developments this weekend is a constant exhaust-gas pressure system to feed the blown diffuser. Diario Sport claims that the Italian team's version of the system - to which much of Red Bull's qualifying dominance is attributed - was tested for the first time in Hockenheim practice. Full story: espnf1.com

There are rumblings about several teams having financial troubles and - possibly as a result - some are pressing for Monaco to pay more for staging a Grand Prix. Full story: Joe Saward's Grand Prix blog

Sebastian Vettel, Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso all achieved higher scores than their team-mates when Germany's Bild newspaper presented the bosses of the Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari teams with blank 'report cards' to fill out for their drivers. Full story: Motorsport.com

Lotus driver Heikki Kovalainen is smiling enigmatically and carefully avoiding making a direct answer when suggestions that he is being lined up to partner Robert Kubica at Renault next season are put to him. Full story: Motorsport.com

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