F1 2010. Dates and a bit of nonsense

[Guest]

 


Well, here I was looking at the Motoring News thinking about F1 next year and I thought I'd drop everryone a note to say Merry Christmas and have a great 2010.

Looks like the F1 calender will look like this:

2010 Formula 1 calendar


14 March Bahrain
28 March Australia
4 April  Malaysia
18 April China
9 May  Spain
16 May Monaco
30 May Turkey
13 June Canada
27 June Europe (Valencia)
11 July  Great Britain
25 July  Germany
1 August Hungary
29 August Belgium
12 September Italy
26 September Singapore
10 October Japan
24 October Korea*
7 November Brazil
14 November Abu Dhabi



*Subject to the homologation of the circuit.

[MadBoB]

 


Well, here I was looking at the Motoring News thinking about F1 next year and I thought I'd drop everryone a note to say Merry Christmas and have a great 2010.

Looks like the F1 calender will look like this:

2010 Formula 1 calendar


14 March Bahrain
28 March Australia
4 April  Malaysia
18 April China
9 May  Spain
16 May Monaco
30 May Turkey
13 June Canada
27 June Europe (Valencia)
11 July  Great Britain
25 July  Germany
1 August Hungary
29 August Belgium
12 September Italy
26 September Singapore
10 October Japan
24 October Korea*
7 November Brazil
14 November Abu Dhabi



*Subject to the homologation of the circuit.

[fullpint]

Just need to find out who's driving what now
Thanks for all the up-date for 2009 mate..

[halfpint]

hope you and olipirate and the family have a brill xmas and look forward to the 2010 season. thanx mad bob

[MadBoB]

Well, drivers so far seem to be:

McLaren-Mercedes
Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton


Mercedes GP (Yes used to be called Brawn GP)
Nico Rosberg
Seat 2 - Nick Heidfeld? Michael Schumacher? ooer


Red Bull
Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber
Sounds pretty sensible


Ferrari
Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa
Hooray Massa is back (and winning kart races already)


Williams-Cosworth
Rubens Barrichello and Nico Hulkenberg (was the test driver)


Renault (if they are still there mind you)
Robert Kubica
Seat 2 - Kovalainen? or Grosjean again?


Force India-Mercedes
Adrian Sutil and Tonio Liuzzi
Go Sutil!!


Toro Rosso-Ferrari
Sebastien Buemi
seat 2 probably Jamie Alguersuari

US F1

No drivers confirmed
Jose Maria Lopez maybe if he brings a wad of cash


Campos Meta
Bruno Senna
Seat 2 Pedro de la Rosa? Nelson Piquet?? (will bring some cash to the team no doubt)


Virgin  (Manor team)
Timo Glock
Seat 2 tipped for Lucas di Grassi.


Lotus

No drivers confirmed
Jarno Trulli??


Sauber - Yup Peter Suaber bought his old team back from BMW and the FIA kindly allowed him to have Toyota's slot.

No drivers confirmed
Ex-BMW test driver Christian Klien might get a drive.




Unsigned 2009 drivers: Jarno Trulli, Heikki Kovalainen, Giancarlo Fisichella, Kazuki Nakajima, Nelson Piquet, Romain Grosjean, Kamui Kobayashi

Old hopefuls: Jacques Villeneuve, Pedro de la Rosa, Christian Klien, Alex Wurz, Anthony Davidson, Takuma Sato, Franck Montagny, Michael Schumacher

Others: Lucas di Grassi, Vitaly Petrov, Pastor Maldonado, Andy Soucek, Karun Chandhok, Bertrand Baguette, Paul di Resta, Jose Maria Lopez

[halfpint]

the lineup is gonna be quite suprising i think for who drives what for who this coming season.

[MadBoB]

I wonder which teams will actually make it to the start line....

not convinced with some of them.

Latest hot tip Prodrive may be taking the reigns of the Renault team with Renault dropping to an engine supplier only.

Interesting really, as Cosworth are back engines will be Ferrari, Mercedes, Renault and Cosworth. Couple that with no refuelling and we are back to the days of who as the most efficient engine......last time we were there the FIA brought in a new rule to balance it out a bit.......pit stop refuelling. 

Apparently there are going to be more points available too, down to 10th place. Sounds like its going the way of school sports - everyone has to win something and don't make too much of a fuss of the guy that came first - thats not fair.

Then again I did play a round of golf at work recently and my score was so bad that evreyone had already eaten their starters by the time we came in.  I won an Ipod for perserverance.

[halfpint]

haha madbob ipods do come in handy.   alot has changed for the new season but at least silverstone is still in the picture. i think we may be in for a few surprises this season.

[Jamie86]

So looks like Lotus have confirmed drivers as:

Hokey Kokey Kovalainen
Jarno Trulli


Just aslo got told that apparently Schuie has signed a deal with Mercedes???

With Renault don't think it's very likely prodrive will take over as not ideal finacially for them.. Although as Aaron pointed out to me Nissan would make perfect sense as no Japanese teams currently..

[MadBoB]

Yup

Michael is back in the exBrawn Mercedes team along with Rosberg. And now I read that Ralf has suggested he's been offered a drive too (someones golf buggy as a paddock monkey I guess, surely he's not top quality driving material is he???).

Good thought about Nissan, can't see it though really. I can't quite see all the teams making it to the start line either - unless it ends up like the days of Simtek and others that turned up but were so off the pace that the FIA introduced the 107% rule to keep the milk floats off the track.

As for 25 points for the winner, I still think thats the biggest load of rubbish ever. 

Winter testing now, so lets see how they go in the pre-season, sand bagging and bragging sessions.

Massa is back in a car though.

[MadBoB]

Doh - now they've let Mr Briatore off about the Singapore Piquet staged crash errr because it wasn't fair or something.

deary me.

[halfpint]

that just aint right. if it was the average joe public they wudda got the book thrown at 'em. totally wrong init it!

[MadBoB]

Shall we have whip round and buy Donnington. Might get it for a pound if you can find someone to fund putting the track back into usable condition.

[halfpint]

sounds like fun then we can play on the track whenever we want. dreaming can be fun .

[MadBoB]

I think this is the latest driver lineup.

J Button                McLaren
L Hamilton
   
N Rosberg   Mercedes GP
M Schumacher
   
S Vettel               Red Bull
M Webber   

F Massa               Ferrari
F Alonso   

R Barrichello   Williams
N Hulkenberg   

R Kubica               Renault
Vitaly Petrov   

A Sutil                Force India
T Luizzi   

S Buemi               Toro Rosso
Jaime Alguersuari
   
J Trulli                Lotus
H Kovalainen
   
TBA               Campos Meta (rumours still about that Campos is up for sale and won't make the grid......)
B Senna   

Jose Maria Lopez    USF1 (Are these guys gonna make it to the grid?)
TBA
   
T Glock                Virgin Racing
L di Grassi
   
K Kobayashi   BMW-Sauber
Pedro de la Rosa   

[halfpint]

this is gonna be a very interesting season i think. driver line up, teams and the new rules for this year. can't wait!!