F1 News

After a very booooooring 2009 F1 season, 2010 season is going to start on 13th MARCH in Bahrain. There has been a lot of changes in F1 over the last 5 months. Few of them are below.

• One of the major highlight of the 2010 season is the MICHAEL IS BACK! well it'll be a great news for michael's fans out there. He is the only second F1 driver to return to F1 after retirement at the age of 41. He is going to drive for MercedesGP.
• After using Mercedes engines for one season only, brawnGP has been bought completely by Mercedes Benz and it has been renamed as MercedesGP.
• 2009 world champion Jenson Button moved to McLaren from BrawnGP team.
• Double world champion Fernando Alonso made a move to Ferrari from Renault.
• Young star Nico Rosberg moved from williams to drive for MercedesGP team.
• BMW confirmed that they won't be racing in 2010 season but the team behind their back SAUBER decided to stay and now they are still on the grid for 2010 season.
• Toyota's and BMW's departure meant empty space for new teams so there are 3 new teams on the grid for the 2010 season CamposF1, US F1 and mighty Lotus team.
• Point scoring system has also been changed for the 2010 season. Now its the same as of WRC. Position wise total 10 top position holders will be awarded points i.e; 25,18,15,10 and so on...
• To cut expenditure of the race, refuelling during the race has been banned. The cars will to do refuelling before the race to take it till the end. This rule change has forced different manufacturers to make most fuel efficient engines.
• In-season testing which had been banned in 2009 season has been allowed now. But that team which will avail it, will be allowed to do testing for only one day and on a non F1 circuit.

Lets hope for the best in the 2010. Experts are eyeing McLaren, Ferrari, Red Bull Racing and MercedesGP to be fiercely competing for the drivers' and constructers' titles.