Well it is coming back to the season where Formula 1 comes back onto our screens next weekend.
This year will see a few new changes to the F1 season as well as new team’s and drivers taking the 2010 F1 up to 25 drivers (correct at time of posting)
The teams and drivers are as follows:
McLaren Mercedes
1 Jenson Button (GB)
2 Lewis Hamilton (GB)
Mercedes Benz GP Limited
3 Michael Schumacher (D)
4 Nico Rosberg (D)
Red Bull Racing Renault
5 Sebastian Vettel (D)
6 Mark Webber (AUS)
Ferrari
7 Felipe Massa (BR)
8 Fernando Alonso (E)
Williams Cosworth
9 Rubens Barrichello (BR)
10 Nico Hulkenberg (D)
Renault
11 Robert Kubica (PL)
12 Vitaly Petrov (RUS)
Force India Mercedes
14 Adrian Sutil (D)
15 Vitantonio Liuzzi (I)
STR Ferrari
16 Sebastien Buemi (CH)
17 Jaime Alguersuari (E)
Lotus Cosworth
18 Jarno Trulli (I)
19 Heikki Kovalainen (FIN)
HRT Cosworth
20 TBA
21 Bruno Senna (BR)
BMW Sauber Ferrari
22 Pedro de la Rosa (E)
23 Kamui Kobayashi (J)
Virgin Cosworth
24 Timo Glock (D)
25 Lucas di Grassi (BR)
A massive rule change for 2010 is a ban on refuelling which will result int he cars having larger cars with up to 160kg of fuel-tank compared to the old 80kg. Every 10kg of fuel equates to 0.3 seconds of lap time.
Another change is the points system for this year, as the new points system goes down to 10th place, thus: 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1.
Each driver now gets only 11 sets of tyres per weekend, six sets of primes and five options. Three sets apply solely to Fridays, and must be handed back even if they aren’t used. And drivers from the Q3 session must start the race on the tyres on which they set their grid time.
The penalty for engine changes has effectively been doubled; it’s now 10 grid positions at the race at which the failure occurs, and for the next. The other significant change once again allows teams to run their third drivers on a Friday, provided they use the engine and tyres allocated to the nominated race driver of the relevant car
With these new rules it sure will be interesting to see what will happen!
