The 2012 GP3 Series season kicked off in almost-thrilling style at the Spanish Grand Prix weekend in Barcelona, with the race wins being shared between what look like being the two main teams to watch in the 2012 season.

The Spanish GP weekend will see the brand new GP3 Series season kick off, in which a packed grid of youngsters will race across Europe and crash into each other a lot. Patronise F1 previews the season ahead, just because we can.

In what presumably seemed like a good idea at the time, the GP2 Series 'enjoyed' a standalone race weekend in Bahrain, just a week after F1's contentious journey to Sakhir. Fortunately, nobody in Bahrain or the media really seemed to care.

DAMS driver Davide Valsecchi turned in a dominant performance at the second meeting of the 2012 GP2 Series, with the Italian taking an early command of the championship with a double race win at the Sakhir circuit.

The boistrous GP3 Series foeld concluded their pre-season preparations with a final two-day test session at the Silverstone circuit. Patty 'handily' summarises the main details of the test as teams make their final plans for 2012.

The new 2012 GP2 Series season kicked off in Malaysia with a pair of action-packed races around the Sepang circuit, and a share of the success across the two events between the youth and the experience on the current grid.

The 2012 GP2 Series season gets underway this weekend in Malaysia, at the start of a new-look year-long schedule for the drivers. Patronise F1 takes a look at the Formula One-chasing runners and riders competing in the campaign ahead.

The GP3 Series crowd continued their almost-interesting pre-season testing schedule at the Circuit de Catalunya this week, with the ten teams taking part in the penultimate test session ahead of the start of the new season.

The GP2 Series teams followed their Formula One bretheren by testing at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona this week, with the final test of the pre-season giving teams one final chance to try out drivers for the 2012 campaign.

The Ocean Racing Technology team, co-owned by former Formula One driver Tiago Monteiro, will join the GP3 Series grid from the start of the 2012 season, replacing Tech 1 Racing in the sport with immediate effect.