Steve Davies

What would Enzo say? That's the first thing that came to mind when I looked at renderings of the upgraded Ferrari 599XX with Evolution Package. Well I guess if it goes faster on track, then he probably wouldn't care how it looks - but then even Enzo Ferrari's race cars managed to look beautiful. That’s not to say the 599XX isn’t beautiful for what it can do..

In an interview distributed by the company this afternoon, Ex-F1 driver and Lotus ambassador, Jean Alesi, shares his views on Kimi Raikkonen's return to Forumla One driving for Lotus Renault GP.

It's hard not to feel sorry for Lotus Renault GP's long list of talented drivers, all carefully positioning themselves for the two available race seats in 2012 - then along comes the IceMan, performs the undercut and takes the chequered flag, before any of them has time to pick up the phone to team-boss Monsieur Boullier and cry "Foul!"

The press release begins, "Lotus Renault GP is pleased to announce that Kimi Räikkönen will race for the team next season.", but we're pretty sure than sentiment doesn't extend to existing drivers Vitaly Petrov and Bruno Senna, nor test and reserve driver Romain Grosjean.

So, Sky have announced the deal that we've all known about for quite some time, namely that ex-F1 driver and BBC commentator Martin Brundle will leave the Beeb to join Sky's new dedicated F1 channel, Sky F1 HD.

It's the question that everyone would love to know and it took a collaboration between Germany's Sport Auto magazine and Lotus Renault GP to find out.

Sébastien Ogier has been signed up as the first official Volkswagen factory driver for the car maker's assault on the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) with the new Polo R WRC.

After we reported earlier in the week that Audi's 2011 DTM Champion, Martin Tomczyk had left the Ingolstadt team, BMW has announced this morning that the 29-year old German driver will join Andy Priaulx, Augusto Farfus and Bruno Spengler in driving the M3 DTM in 2012.

Ex-Formula One driver and BBC F1 presenter, Martin Brundle, will join his son Alex at the wheel of the Nissan-powered Greaves Motorsport LMP2 prototype at next year's 24 Hours of Le Mans (June 16-17).