Hamburg - Giancarlo Fisichella and Adrian Sutil are still not certain of driving for the Force India team in the 2009 Formula One season after team boss Vijay Mallya said in an interview Thursday that he has yet to finalise his driver line-up.

Mallya said in October that the pair would continue in 2009 but told the BBC that his team's newly signed technical link-up with McLaren to use the same engines, gearbox and hydraulics as McLaren- Mercedes had changed things.

Monaco  - Formula One teams and the international motorsport federation FIA reached agreement Wednesday on cost-cutting measures for the sport from next year.

Their proposals at a meeting in Monaco will be put forward to the FIA World Motor Sport Council on Friday.

A joint statement from FIA and the Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) gave no details of the proposed savings, saying full details will be released following Friday's meeting.

Stuttgart  - German car giants BMW and Mercedes Friday pledged their continued loyality to Formula One motor-racing but said savings had become unavoidable.

Both German teams told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa Friday the decision by Japanese carmaker Honda to quit Formula One would have no influence on their participation in the sport.

"Our Formula One engagement is financially solid," Mercedes sports director Norbert Haug said.

McLaren-Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton's victory in the 2008 F1 championships had provided an enormous marketing boost for the company, Haug said.

Tokyo  - Japanese carmaker Honda Motor Co considers disbanding its costly Formula One team as it battles sinking profits, news reports said Friday.

Honda representatives had informed its team, which is based in Britain, that it was to pull out of the expensive sport if no new sponsor was found, Japan's Jiji Press news agency said, also citing British news reports.

If there was no buyer by March, the team was to be sold, leaving current drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello in limbo, the BBC reported.

Vienna  - The Toro Rosso Formula One team is now completely owned by the Red Bull drinks company after the Austrian firm confirmed Tuesday that it has bought out former F1 driver Gerhard Berger's 50-per-cent share in the team.

"I am very grateful to Gerhard for his huge input," said Dietrich Mateschitz, head of the Red Bull Racing team.

"Together we made Toro Rosso into a team that qualified on a regular basis in the top 10 and collected world championship points."

The team also secured its first F1 win thanks to Sebastian Vettel's victory at the Italian Grand Prix in Monza.

Stuttgart - Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton expects next season's title race to be as difficult as this year's one.

The 23-year-old Briton managed to overtake Germany's Timo Glock on the final bend on the final lap of the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday to move to fifth place, thereby winning the title by one point from race winner Ferrari's Felipe Massa.

Speaking at the traditional Stars&Cars function in Stuttgart on Saturday - Hamilton greeted the 65,000 racing enthusiasts in German - the McLaren-Mercedes driver said that he will obviously try to repeat his success.