DTM champion Mattias Ekstrom took his third Race of Champions triumph after beating Michael Schumacher in a dramatic finale to the ROC week in Beijing, with Schumacher falling just short of the ROC title for another year.

The race to become the "champion of champions" took place today in Beijing, even though most of them aren't champions. Still, could the German drivers follow up their Nations Cup success? Find out with The Head's minute-by-minute report.

The Team Germany pairing of Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel took their third Nations Cup victory in a row at the Bird's Nest Stadium, coming through a tricky semi-final against USA before beating Great Britain in a close final.

The end-of-season fun of the Race of Champions today saw the drivers team up for the honour of their home countries in the Nations Cup over in the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing. Relive the action with The Head's minute-by-minute report.

The annual end-of-season motorsport jamboree has left the confines of Wembley Stadium to head for the similar, but a bit different, confines of the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing this year, and Patronise will be covering the whole, fun-filled event.

A plethora of new teams have been tripping over themselves to get their names down on the FIA's entry list for 2010. But which of them will be let in, and which will be left to retreat to A1GP? Patronise has some blind guesses.

With the final, bloody battle in the Diffusergate saga set for Paris tomorrow, two of Patronise's entirely non-biased and completely objective scribes take the time to argue both sides of the debate, as everyone asks: "Should the diffusers be banned?"

After 12 years away from the channel, the UK's coverage of F1 returned to the BBC in Melbourne, amid many promises of high-quality coverage of the weekend. And much as we bitter cynics here at Patty would have loved it to fall on it's face, it was largely brilliant.