The best pics from Magny Cours

Nick Heidfeld and Bobby Kubica enjoy a cheese and wine tasting session. Nick, in particular, seems to be having a fine time. Question (we have asked it before): why do the poor BMW drivers always get to do the shittiest PR set-ups? You wouldn’t catch Kimi Raikkonen sat in a field before a GP, with a wooden tray of brie and grapes laid out in front of him.

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Wee Bernie’s daughter lands job as paddock reporter

Tamara Ecclestone has bagged a full-time (ahem) job working for Italian broadcaster Sky, as a paddock reporter on the prowl for “interesting tales to tell”. She presents in Italian, one of three languages in which she is fluent - English and Croatian (from her mother, Slavica) are the others.

“I want a career, a proper one,” Tamara says in her best Kensington accent. “I want to show people that I actually do something and that I’m good at it. I don’t want to be a version of anyone else. People are already keen to draw comparisons with me and Paris Hilton, for example. That’s not me. I want there to be more to my life than being famous for getting out of a car with no knickers on.”

Monte Carlo, the class of 2008

1. Naomi Campbell, captured in a rare calm moment. The angry supermodel was in Monte Carlo for Petra Ecclestone’s fashion show.

Bernie’s missus is tall and loaded. What else do you need to know?

The most amusing sight in F1 is wee Bernie Ecclestone (5ft 3in on a good day) walking around the paddock with his 6ft 2in ex-model wife, Slavica. Born in Croatia (then Yugoslavia) in 1958, Slavica is a giant of a woman. We also imagine she refers to everyone as “Dahhhling” in a heavy east-European accent.

Second lady of F1 wants to be a fashion designer. Ya, she so does

We’ve already featured Petra’s older sister, Tamara, and now it’s the turn of Bernie & Slavica’s youngest daughter. Petra, 19, is just your average billionaire heiress – she wants to be a fashion designer, and has recently started working with Savile Row tailor Edward Sexton, who just happens to make suits for little Bernie Ecclestone – ah, we love the smell of nepotism in the morning.

Bernie Ecclestone’s daughter looks nothing like Bernie (a good thing)

It’s fortunate for Formula 1 socialite Tamara Ecclestone that she inherited her looks from her Croatian model mum, Slavica, rather than father Bernie. The 24-year-old is a regular visitor to the F1 paddock and has even been known to don a crash helmet and race at charity events. You might recognise her as the plummy TV host of Red Bull’s Air Race series.