There's no debating the fact that the diesel prototypes from both Audi and Peugeot have been completely dominant in the past few years of Le Mans racing. New regulations may change that in 2012.

The Excite Rallye Raid Team will head to Dakar this year representing England with an all-British racing team and a Range Rover Evoque body on its truck, but BMW power beneath the skin.

Like father, like son. It applies even to racing beautiful Mercedes-Benzes at the 24 Hours of Spa. Hans Heyer and his son Kenneth are proof of that.

Ferrari already has the 458 Challenge, the 458 GT2, and the 458 GT3. Now there's also a 458 for Grand Am racing here in the US, which only proves that there's no such thing as too much of a good thing.

At the end of the last week we saw Audi's new A5 DTM car sketched out and today we see BMW's M3 in concept form. 2012 looks to be a very good year for DTM racing.

For a number of years now, Audi has been racing its four-door sports sedan, the A4, in Germany's DTM series. That'll change when the sexy A5 takes over next year.

Yesterday, Group Lotus announced the formation of Lotus Sport USA, a team that will begin testing at a new facility at NCCAR later this year and join IMSA for a full schedule in 2012.

LMP1 racing in recent years has mostly been an Audi versus Peugeot affair, which is fine, but things are about to get far more interesting in a few short years. Porsche has confirmed it will return to Le Mans' top class in 2014.