Archive for November, 2010

Nov201024

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Full year report: Mercedes

Mercedes bought the Brawn team and convinced Michael Schumacher to return to F1 but have achieved little else. They have been the fourth best team on the grid for most of the season and they’ll be disappointed by that. Ross Brawn will be pushing hard to improve things for next year but it remains to be seen whether they can build something that can challenge the other teams. They seem to have got bogged down in the midfield to many times this year, whether that is because the car is hard to use in passing or whether it is just a lack of pace we’ll never know.
Nico Rosberg has had an impressive season, he has continually bettered Michael Schumacher and has impressed the team. That said he hasn’t set the world on fire, but that could be the car too. He needs to beat Schumacher in 2011 too if [...]

Nov201017

Rob

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Vettel secures his first title with an amazing end to the season

Sebastian Vettel won the last race of the season at Abu Dhabi and in doing so took the F1 drivers title as both Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso floundered to seventh and eighth places. He becomes the youngest F1 world champion and seems to be set to build on that next year, if he can drop the mistakes then he will be very hard to unseat next year.
The race was somewhat disappointing after all of the build up and the Renaults made sure that Hamilton couldn’t challenge Vettel for the lead and that Alonso’s hopes faded as he couldn’t get past. The McLarens late season pace secured the end for Alonso and Webber as they needed the places, it will forever remain a mystery as to why McLaren didn’t have that pace for the last few races.
Vettel won this championship with a storming last part of the season, the other [...]

Nov201017

Rob

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Full year report: McLaren

McLaren have had a solid if not exceptional season, they have won races and at the beginning showed pace that would have worried Red Bull. Their challenge faded though as they haven’t managed to keep up with the development at either Red Bull or Ferrari, which is unlike McLaren.
Jensen Button has proven that he isn’t the push over that so many people thought he would be and that Lewis Hamilton hasn’t had it all his own way, he has performed solidly all season though he has found himself in positions where he’s had to take the risky option – however it has paid off for him this year. He’ll be hoping that next year McLaren will build a car that is more predictable as unlike Lewis he  finds it hard to cope with an unstable car.
Lewis Hamilton’s season has shown flashes of brilliance with flashes of stupidity, without some of [...]

Nov201017

Rob

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Full year report: Red Bull

Red Bull have had the fastest car all year, I don’t think that there is anyone up and down the pit lane who would challenge that but they have continually failed to capitalize on it. Accidents, failures, strategy they have all played their part – it is a testament to how fast the car is that they won the constructors title. Adrain Newey built them a car that was very quick and there have been a good few races this year where the winner was only ever going to be one of the Red Bulls.
Mark Webber’s year has been one of consistently good performances, he has had a couple of mistakes but in general the he has brought the car home and brought the points along with it. He hasn’t been favoured by the team but I think that helped him to motivate the mid season push that saw him [...]

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