Klien Summoned for Military Service

After missing out on the vacant Force India race cockpit for 2008, Christian Klien has been summoned by the Austrian army to do six months of mandatory military service this year.

The 24-year-old was on Thursday ordered to report for duty at Vorarlberg, the western province that houses his home town Hohenems. His hair was cut, his back was straightened and the surly curl to his lip was replaced by a bright eye and a strong chin.

After basic training in Texas, he will be sent to work as a Jeep driver in Freiburg, West Germany, far from the nearest recording studio or movie lot. Klien's's manager, the old carny who called himself Colonel Tom Parker, wangled a two-month draft deferment so Klien could finish filming 'King Creole' for Hal Wallis and Paramount Pictures.

Trulli dissappeares up own balaclava.

At the launch of Toyota's TF108, Jarno Trulli had to be cut, not from the vehicle but his own balaclava which he had put on back to front.

"Many press thought they'd mixed us up with the recent Tutankhamen exhibition", team principal Tadashi Yamashina said. "I've got kid's to feed! This is an absolute disaster."

"I wish he'd never been born" - Coulthard

Ahead of the 2008 season, veteran Scot, David Coulthard has glanced over his shoulder at what life would have been like if the Schumachers had used a Jiffy condom.

DC: "Michael was such a large part of my career and trying to beat him was obviously very difficult. To reminisce of my best championship year, I finished second, and I finished second to him. So if he had just never been born then maybe it could have been different!"