Following the unveiling of the TS030 HYBRID, Toyota have announced the remaining drivers for their two car attack on the Le Mans 24 Hours. Joining Hiroaki Ishiura will be two former F1 drivers in Anthony Davidson and Sebastien Buemi. Davidson was without a drive since Peugeot's exit from endurance prototype racing, while Buemi was recently dropped by Toro Rosso. The driver line-up for the other TS030 - which will also compete in the World Endurance Championship - includes Alex Wurz, Kazuki Nakajima...

Over the past couple of days a stream of 2012 F1 cars have broken cover. Lotus F1 Team (formerly Renault) launched their E20 with this YouTube video featuring Jonny Smith.

Today Red Bull pulled the covers off the RB8, which designer Adrian Newey says is a continued evolution stemming back to the RB5. Will this be the car to take Vettel to a hat-trick of World Championships?

Meanwhile at Jerez in Spain, the Sauber outfit debuted the Ferrari-powered C31. “The C31 is revolutionary where we had fresh ideas, particularly at the rear of the car" said chief designer Matt Morris. "And it is an evolution where we knew we could carry over certain approaches.”

Force India are hoping their new VJM 05 will guide them to fifth place in this year's Constructors' Championship.

With last year's driver line-up of Jamie Alguersuari and Sebastien Buemi dropped, it will be Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne who will drive the Toro Rosso STR7s.

Pre-season testing gets under way tomorrow at Jerez, with the Championship kicking off in Australia in just over a month. 

- Charles Kha

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Today Ferrari unveiled their new Formula 1 challenger online, with the live launch ceremony at Maranello cancelled due to heavy snow. The design of the Ferrari F2012 (codenamed 663) has certainly proven controversial, with the dramatic stepped nose being the main talking point. The Caterham and Force India 2012 cars both feature contoured 'humps' to get around the new regulations, while McLaren's MP4-27 features a more gradual nose transition. - Charles Kha

One down, eleven to go. And as is customary here at Speedhunters, we'll kick off a new month with a look at what's in store. For February we've decided to focus on Game Changers ; cars that sparked trends, rewrote the rulebook or rocked their sport. We'll be taking a look through various car cultures to uncover the icons that have reached legendary status. As a taste of what's to come on the Japanese front, Dino has a stream of features on some of the more influential demo cars...

My name’s Amaury Laparra and since an early age I've been a huge automotive fan. Although I study architecture and design here in Paris, my passion for cars has only grown more intense. I've been taking photos of landscapes since I was four or five years old, but as soon as I got a DLSR I wanted to mix my passions for photography and cars. Let's start with this shot. I was walking in the streets of Paris when I found this SLR parked a few meters from my home. I shot a lot around...

Don't play golf with Rhys Millen. He cheats.

- Charles Kha

RMR 

Toyota Racing has today taken the covers off the highly anticipated TS030 HYBRID. Based out of Toyota GmbH - the German facility used for their previous F1 campaign - Toyota Racing will enter two TS030 HYBRIDs in this year's Le Mans 24 Hours. The unveiling occured at Paul Ricard, where ex-F1 driver Alex Wurz and Nicolas Lapierre performed a shakedown. The TS030 uses an all-new carbon chassis and features Toyota's THS-R (Toyota Hybrid System - Racing) powertrain that was developed with Denso...

This month the 25th Summernats car festival took over Canberra, the capital city of Australia. Spanning three and a half days, the Summernats event (which is short for 'Summer Nationals') attracted 1500 cars and a hundred thousand spectators. One of the big drawcards was the Horsepower Heroes; an invite only dyno shootout. This year's Horsepower Hero winner was Jake Edwards' 8sec Holden Torana. How much power did it make? 1584.8hp at the wheels.

You can also check out one of Jake's quarter mile runs here.

- Charles Kha

Summernats

We don't usually run fan videos, but over the weekend this particular one caught our eye. Dubbed Love For Life, it was created by Finn Antti Kalhola, whose vidding efforts have amassed a strong online following over the past couple of years. A self-confessed motorsport junkie with a passion for editing, Antti's latest video is a great compilation from the archives.

Thanks to reader Slappy for sharing.

- Charles Kha

Speedhunters reader Peter Brueckner recently grabbed a camera, hopped into his Skyline and headed for the Santa Cruz mountains. Peter's a camera engineer by trade, and his weekend toy is this 1971 Nissan Skyline 2000GTX. Ground Control helped build a custom pair of coilovers utilising Koni shocks. For the rear, Peter has fitted RS Start adjustable perches and springs. Peter's a self confessed Watanabe fan, but he decided on a set of Hayashi Street CRs instead. The fronts are 15x7.5 with a...