The GP2 Series has confirmed a freshly-expanded 2012 schedule in the wake of the Asia Series and main championship merging together, including two back-to-back race weekends in Bahrain for no apparent reason.

The GP3 field completed their year's work with one final two-day post-season test at the Jerez circuit, where the names at the top of the times were slightly more mixed up that at Valencia the week before. Only slightly, mind you.

The GP3 Series teams got another chance for some meaningless bimbling around a Spanish test track, with the recent two-day post-season test at the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia. As ever with GP3, one team rather dominated.

The GP2 Series field headed to the Yas Marina Circuit for a slightly needless non-championship round to bring the curtain down on their 2011 entertainment, featuring a host of new names eyeing 2012 GP2 campaigns.

After the near-entertainment of the recent pair of GP2 Series tests, the junior GP3 Series kicked off their own post-season testing season with a pair of days of action at a slightly cold Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona.

The post-season 'fun' in the GP2 Series continued with a further two-day test at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona, as the teams completed their preparations ahead of the non-championship race in Abu Dhabi next month.