Steve Davies

This is steadily becoming the biggest motorsport pis**ng contest of recent times and clearly goes well beyond the bounds of gentlemanly competition... Welcome to Round 3 of the Lotus-vs-Lotus spat.

We were already aware that Group Lotus were in discussions with Genii Capital - majority shareholders in the Renault F1 team - about bringing a tie-up for 2011. The announcement was due at the final grand prix in Abu Dhabi, but there's been much lobbying and negotiation in the background prior to this morning's announcement.

New Formula 1 world champion Sebastian Vettel and the Red Bull team were honoured at motorsport’s most prestigious end-of-season gala event, the 2010 Autosport Awards, held last night at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel.

Silverstone and its owners, the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC), have announced that the name chosen for their iconic new Pit, Paddock and Conference building will be ‘The Silverstone Wing’.

‘The Wing’ is synonymous with motor sport, but also connects with Silverstone’s aviation history, therefore illustrating both the circuit’s rich heritage and its exciting future.

Ferrari opened the Bologna Motor Show this morning with a stunning display of race cars including the 599XX and FXX (based upon the Enzo), but it was the 458 Challenge that took centre stage.

The FIA's official entry list for the 2011 Formula One championship was revealed this afternoon, with the most significant news being that the FIA has accepted the change of name of Tony Fernandes' 1 Malaysia Racing Team from Lotus Racing to Team Lotus.

Audi finally lifted the wraps on its much anticipated TT GT4 at last weekend's final round of the DTM series in Shanghai. The TT, developed by the Technical Development and the Production divisions plus quattro GmbH, is intended to extend Audi’s new modular customer motorsport program from 2012 onwards.

Paul Di Resta (AMG Mercedes C-Class) finished second in the final race of the 2010 DTM in Shanghai winning his first DTM Championship title. Gary Paffett (Salzgitter AMG Mercedes C-Class) won the Shanghai race and finished the season runner-up ahead of Bruno Spengler (Mercedes-Benz Bank AMG C-Class) who completed the Mercedes-Benz 1-2-3 success in the drivers’ championship.

Sunday's result represented the 9th win for Mercedes in a season of 11 DTM rounds, sealing both drivers and manufacturers titles.

Filipe Albuquerque delivered a thrilling performance to eclipse 15 superstars of motorsport and win The Race of Champions individual drivers competition at his first attempt on an exciting afternoon in Düsseldorf.

In front of a packed ESPRIT arena the Portuguese driver overcame World Rally champion Sébastien Loeb 2-1 in the best-of-three Grand Final on the specially-constructed parallel track to earn the title of Champion of Champions.