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F1 2010
The pre-season testing for the Formula 1 season has just begun, and 2010 looks set to be one of the most exciting and competitive years in F1 for a while. The main talking point so far is the return of seven-time World Champion Michael Schumacher, who will be racing for Mercedes this season.
He will be going up against his old team Ferrari, whose drivers, Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa, looked lightning fast in testing. McLaren’s driver partnership is a dream for all British motor sport fans, with Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton teaming up under the Woking-based outfit.
The season kicks off at Bahrain on the 14th March, and for the first time since 1999, there will be four former champions on the grid, with Hamilton and Button lining up for McLaren, and Schumacher and Alonso competing for Mercedes and Ferrari. After Bahrain, the teams will jet off to Melbourne for the Australian Grand Prix.
There will be a total of 19 races this season, with a new points structure in place, which means there is more incentive to win a race, rather than come second. The points structure is now like this: 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1. There is also a ban on refuelling this season, and so pit stops during races will only be for tyre changes.
After Melbourne, there are GPs in Malaysia and China, before the European leg of the Championship starts with the Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona. The flagship race of the calendar, the Monaco Grand Prix, will take place on the 16 May, and the Canadian GP will return on the 13 June after a one year absence.
There will also be a Korean GP for the first time in the sport’s history, with it scheduled to be the third last race of the season on the 26th of October. Traditionally, the Brazilian GP at Interlagos has been the season-ending race, but for the second year running, the new Abu Dhabi track will have that honour at the Yas Marina circuit.
Following Ferrari’s early pace in testing, Alonso has been made favourite to reclaim the Drivers Championship, to add to the ones he won in 2005 and 2006. He is priced at 3/1 for the title. Hamilton and Schumacher are next, both at 9/2, with Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel next at 13/2. Felipe Massa, who missed most of last season with a head injury, is priced at 8/1, while current champion Jenson Button is at 18/1.
Despite Ferrari looking quick in the early testing, there is still all to play for, with plenty of time between now and the first race, and we are still yet to see the cars of the new teams in action. If Mercedes can conjure up even a fraction of the dominance that they had at the start of last season as Brawn, then it is difficult to see who will be able to stop Schumacher marching to the title.
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