News briefs from Barcelona: Sunday

(GMM) Another warm and dry day greeted the sell-out crowd of 145,000 at Spain's Circuit de Catalunya on Sunday.

The race takes place over 66 laps, starting at 2pm local.

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Michael Schumacher's manager boasted at Barcelona that he could find the retired seven time world champion a race seat "in half an hour".

"I don't think he has the desire anymore," Willi Weber said, "but all I would need is a telephone and half an hour."

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It emerged on Sunday that Super Aguri team principal and owner Aguri Suzuki, a former grand prix driver, traveled to Barcelona this week directly from stomach surgery in Tokyo.

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Ron Dennis is no fan of Red Bull's so-called 'almost independent' paddock magazine The Red Bulletin. Three journalists were reading the humorous rag over breakfast in the McLaren motor home when the team's boss told them to either leave or discard their inappropriate reading material.

With the journalists' stomachs doing the thinking, the magazines were promptly thrown away.