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Dec201001

Rob

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Full year report: Lotus

Lotus have consistently been the best of the new teams – but don’t let that convince you, Mike Gascoyne knows that isn’t good enough and they are hard at work trying to ensure that next year they are always within a shout of some points, can they do it? Who knows but they stand the best chance.
Jarno Trulli has provided Lotus with a solid platform to both identify the problems with the car and develop what they have for next year, he ensures that they know the car is on the limit and that they are getting the best out of it.
Heikki Kovalainen has also had a good year, he has provided a solid benchmark and pushed Trulli all year. He has provided the team with it’s best finish this year and hasn’t thrown the car of the road like some of the other drivers in new teams.
Lotus have a [...]

Nov201024

Rob

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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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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 [...]

Nov201003

Rob

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Brazil approaches – and Alonso could take the title but where did it start

For the first time in the season someone could take the title, though it seems unlikely if Alonso repeated the results of Korea then he’d be world champion for the third time. It marks an amazing turn around from mid season where the Ferrari team looked nowhere.
Looking back over the season the Ferrari has never been that slow, but they have had some terrible luck with safety cars and some bad reliability. The fact that Alonso is leading the world championship is down to Ferrari though and the fact that they have concentrated on Alonso for some time. His fortunes turned with the infamous ‘he is faster than you’ moment and he’s never really looked back since.
Now that Alonso has won the most GP and is at the top he looks every bit the world champion and Red Bull are going to find it hard to beat him, even with [...]

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