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December 31, 2010: The launch of a US version of Top Gear has met with a lukewarm response ... is it too soon to judge or is it a formula than cannot bridge the cultural divide?

December 31, 2010: Former Formula One journeyman Jos Verstappen has backed Ferrari's push to allow top teams to enter third cars in the sport

December 31, 2010: Williams chairman Adam Parr has dismissed suggestions the team's new recruit Pastor Maldonado is little more than a Formula One "pay driver"

December 30, 2010: Mike Gascoyne has admitted it will take up to two years for Team Lotus to start using its own windtunnel and five years before its starts to compete with Formula One's biggest names

December 30, 2010: Sir Jackie Stewart has tipped fellow Scot Paul di Resta to make his Formula One debut in 2011

December 30, 2010: Ferrari's 2011 chassis has passed a sequence of crucial crash tests, according to Italian media reports

December 29, 2010: A Spanish website has admitted a news story about Santander buying into the Spanish team HRT was a hoax

December 29, 2010: Pirelli motorsport director Paul Hembery is confident his tyre company will deliver in 2011 after completing its latest private test in Bahrain

December 29, 2010: Sebastien Buemi has been keeping busy over Formula One's winter break and has even found the time to set a new record

December 29, 2010: HRT engineer Toni Cuquerella believes Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems (KERS) are "inefficient" and returning to Formula One in 2011 for marketing reasons

December 29, 2010: NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya has ruled out the possibility of returning to Formula One in the future

December 29, 2010: Nico Rosberg has played down Mercedes' chances of competing with Formula One's frontrunners right from the start of next season

December 29, 2010: Red Bull's 2011 car will be an evolution of the championship-winning RB6 rather than a radical new design, according to chief designer Adrian Newey

December 29, 2010: The BBC's Top Gear show has landed itself in hot water after the three presenters dressed in burkas during their Christmas Special

December 28, 2010: Fernando Alonso has responded to comments that Luca di Montezemolo made earlier last week when he claimed Sebastian Vettel would one day drive for Ferrari

December 28, 2010: Lewis Hamilton has revealed problems in his personal life as a contributed to his failure to recapture the Formula One title in 2010

December 27, 2010: Recent rumours that the FIA is looking at Vietnam as a possible venue for a grand prix have been played down by circuit advisor Hans Geist

December 27, 2010: Luca Filippi has not given up on getting a drive in Formula One in 2011

December 24, 2010: HRT owner Jose Ramon Carabante has accused sponsors of not appreciating the full value of Formula One, adding his team needs to be judged on its long-term performance