A new year dawns and with it comes various rumours none more interesting than the almost locked in fact that Casey Stoner will do a season of V8 Supercars. And in The Car of The Past which will have a number of benefits. Firstly since he is in a Development Series car it will suddenly put the Dunlop Series on the media map in a big way. Not to mention that DVS is really the only true Ford vs Holden battle. Secondly it will take a bit of pressure off the arrival of COTF which will no doubt endure all sorts of teething problems at The Clipsal not the least of which being the 45C temperatures predicted. Princess Datilda gets a new iPad thanks to Adobe. Betty thanks Ross and Jimmy. Much gnashing of teeth at FPR as Rusty get a foot in the door. Ron might be having second thoughts whilst Lewis has an issue with corrigated iron. Dakar gets going and seems unable to decide if it likes El Matador. JP discovers a cheap and nasty merlot. CES in Las Vegas dumps 3D TV for 4K OLED and Lenovo intro a 6.5kg tablet. No razor sponsor insight for Grosjean so far.