With Bahrain just a week away, what’s new for F1 in 2010?
The first race of the 2010 F1 season in Bahrain is just a week away, it seems like it’s been a long winter. There are many things that are different (I won’t say new) this year in F1. New rules, new teams, new drivers and we’ll all see who’s done the best job over the last few months.
There are a few new rules this year such as the refueling ban and the ban on wheel spinners. As well as technical changes like the tyre size and the new points system of 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1. I may not agree with all of them – especially the refueling ban, I just don’t see how it can possibly improve overtaking – but they are here and the teams and drivers must make the best use of them.
We will have three new teams on the grid for the first race of the season, Virgin, Lotus and HRT (Excellent PR there) and two rebadged ones in Sauber and Mercedes. It will be interesting to see how the new teams do over the course of the weekend.
There will also be new drivers on the grid in the forms of Bruno Senna, Karun Chandhok, Vitaly Petrov, Nico Hulkenberg, Lucas di Grassi and the return of Michael Schumacher. That’s five rookies in one year, and Kamui Kobayashi has only driven in two GPs so he almost counts.
Apart from all these changes there have been all the driver movements of which the highlights are Jenson Button to McLaren and Fernando Alonso to Ferrari. These will make the championship very interesting this year.
So there are lots of changes to look for and hopefully most of them should mean better racing, if the teams are as close as they were in testing it should be a good season.
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