Steve Davies

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.

The first pictures of Subaru's BRZ leaked out last night, prior to its official launch at the Tokyo Motor Show. The BRZ, nicknamed Subieyota, is the company's first rear-wheel drive car and was developed together with Toyota's GT 86 (a.k.a. Toyobaru) which was unveiled at the weekend.

After last year's successful launch of MINI's location-based iPhone Game in Stockholm, Tokyo becomes the next destination to be engulfed by MINI fever.

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 a brave car maker who bucks the trend for more power, more performance and more.. everything when building a sports car, and when that car maker is Japanese there's an even more tightly defined expectation for what constitutes a performance car.

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.

I bet you didn't see this coming. Volvo, all safe and sensible hooking up with the UK's hottest boy band. But then times have changed at Volvo - the cars are still at the top-end in terms of active and passive road safety, but they're also great fun to drive, especially the latest V60/S60 models.

Supercar makers don't usually need to advertise their latest models - the automotive and lifestyle media do a pretty good job of that on their own. So, on the rare occasion when an ad is created, we tend to sit up and take notice, since it tells us plenty about the state of the brand.