F1 2010 season: Your thoughts

Best season in a long while. Redbull didn't half make a meal of it though, they should have had both championships in the bag with at least a couple of races to spare.

Schumacher was interesting, I certainly expected a bit more from him. I guess, I expected him to have performed like Rosberg and Rosberg like him. However, I have been impressed with his attitude.

I just made this chart from the qualifying data. Clearly Rosberg has had a consistent advantage in qualifying. However, both cars have seen a similar negative trend. I read this a Merc being thoroughly out-developed over the season. This could be good news for next year if they have instead been working on the 2011 car? Merc are also meant to have one of the best KERS?

Finally, look at Schumacher's qualifying for the 2nd half of the season - does this trend bode well for next year?

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I hope Merc manage to produce a championship worthy car for 2011.
 
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@drunkenmaster
I don't understand what you've got against safety cars. I consider them as another variable that can't be planned for in advance and in most cases make the race more, not less, interesting. All of the problems you've highlighted are caused by the same root cause: not being able to pass.

Something clearly needs to be done about the tires. In my opinion they should be so soft that 2 stops are necessary during the races simply so they don't fall apart. It used to be (admittedly a long time ago) that fresh tires were such an advantage that it was worth pitting because you could make up the time it cost you by being on fresh rubber.

And while I understand that the Middle-Eastern races have significant financial benefits they should at least move them and have a decent track first and last. It gets F1 a lot of bad press to have such dull races just at the moment when the sport is getting most coverage.
 
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What I dislike is, they have various soft and hard tires and some retard makes a call on which to take to each race, one choice for hard/soft, a few races the softs do get so bad you need a pitstop, other races, you could go 54 laps in a 55 lap race, firstly thats inconsistant from one race to another, which isn't particularly fair.

I'm not actually sure it would make a lot of difference if the tires do wear out though, if they all fall apart, everyone on the grid would pit over the same couple of laps.

What we need, is overtaking, without it, all the drama people have mentioned at various races, 99% has been caused by anything but actual driving, and maybe I'm just crazy but I prefer the drama to come from, racing?

Theres no wrong or right call for safety cars and pitting right now. If you pit first, and no one else does, you can end up with a huge advantage, or disadvantage, if everyone else pits, you might end up first, or crap, who knows, its basically pot luck at this point.

The problem though is, even when the pits are even, and theres no safety car, and the front 4 drivers are roughly "on par" with each other, 15 years ago you might get someone in 2nd, move up, have a bad corner, drop back, move back to 3rd, 4th, then move back up to 1st again.

Now, if you're in second, chances are you're staying second for the whole race unless the car infront fails or makes a horrific mistake. Essentially the cars are too good. Everytime they've gimped striaght line speed, they've simply made the cars have to be faster in the corners, but it was the sliding, braking too early or too late, going to wide or too tight that caused most overtaking. If you break to late lock up your next straight someone has a great chance at getting past.

The cars are TOO good in the corners, mistakes rarely rarely happen because the cars have so much grip and such good brakes its hard to screw it up.

The tracks aren't the reason the races are dull, you can have a dull race anywhere these days. I mean most of the "best" races were because someone screwed up qualifying and had to go past the field, or because the weather was completely unpredictable, rather than because other tracks were "that" much better for overtaking and being competitive.

They need to seriously nerf cars ability to screw up the air coming out of the car, they need to make slipstreaming "useable" again, they need to nerf the tires, nerf the grip, and quit complaining when cars get fast down the straights.

Maybe more than anything its just been 2 very bad years, with a car, due to rules/way they've gotten around them, meaning there was such a clearly better car as to be almost uncompetitive.
 
good season but wasnt great

Very glad Ferrari/ Alonso didnt win (especally after his verbal assault on Petrov after the finish line), and I still think Ferrari made a rookie mistake in covering the wrong pitstop

Would have preferred Webber to be the RB driver, but for the whole of the last weekend he just looked defeated already

Personlly thought last year was more exciting (only because everyon knew the budget wasnt there to further develope the car - and those that want to slate Brawn as a constructor should look at the tribulations Mercedes had in their own right this season, really proves how much Brawn did over 08/09 winter to fully diserve their titles)

McLaren were a real let down developing their car in the last 4 / 5 months of the season

Really glad that Rosberg totally slaughtered Schumi, hope it continues next year

Stupidist crash - cant decide between Mark's flying lesson (Valencia) or Vettel in Spa
 
Entertaining season, was close and lots of good surprises here and there.

Best moment was Hulk's quali lap last week (really didnt rate him too much at the start but now I hope he gets a drive next season).

Best race was probably the British GP (for once) or Monza just for some exciting battle's

Sillyist crash clearly vettle on webber at Turkey :p

Over the drivers that impressed me most are Koby, Kubica and Rosberg for generally putting out really good seasons when their cars wern't quite the best. (and Alsonso for putting in some good races the second half of the season).

Hope they sort out the car design problems and some of the more lifeless tracks...
 
Best part: Many race winners, close championship right until the end.

Worst part: Well... Alonso didn't win... :(
Being serious though: The opening and final races were pretty grim. Monaco would offer more on track action... :|
The tyres... The soft tyres were nowhere near "soft" enough. People could run 2 thirds race distance on them. I mean... WTF? If we're going to have "fake" pit-stops for a stupid tyre rule. At least make the tyres have some difference in life...

I'm not too fussed at the actual result, Vettel is a worthy champion. He's quick and he was in the best car. That's how you win championships I guess.
Every top contender made mistakes this year, they would all have been worthy winners, imo.

There was the usual amount of whinging and crying from the F1 fanbase this year about how things were unfair, or how drivers were "babies". Disappointing but what can you do?

It's good that there are now 5 WDCs to be racing at the same time. Plenty of good drivers on the grid, Kobayashi providing some of the best action this year. :)

The new teams...
I spent most of the time wishing they would "GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY!!!!!" *mouth foaming*
I hope they are far better next year, back markers were a real pain to watch.
I did not feel Lotus, Virgin and HRT made the sport more exciting this year.

Best crash: Really?
 
Interesting season with some really interesting moments. Will certainly be a season to remember - albeit not for the standard of on tracking racing/overtaking.
Some of the standout memories:

-Buemi's car self destructing when braking!
-Webber taking off.
-Alonso diving down the pitlane in front of Massa.
-Schumi diving past Alonso behind the safety car!
-Redbulls tangling in Turkey, followed by the excitment of the whole room I was in laughing at them both, then panicing as it looked like the Mclarens were going to try the same trick.
-Heikki the fireman :p
-Lewis in Korea: "You could drive on inters in this" after every other driver said it was undrivable.

Loved the BBC coverage for the most part. Some funny banter from Jake, Eddie and David. Some funny comments from Brundle, not to mention the great 5live coverage.

Shame about Legard though - hope he is gone next year.....
 
PinkFloyd said:
-Redbulls tangling in Turkey, followed by the excitment of the whole room I was in laughing at them both, then panicing as it looked like the Mclarens were going to try the same trick.
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You know, I'd almost forgot about that!
A great bit of on track action during those few corners. Mclaren drivers giving Red Bull a masterclass on how to attempt an overtake on your team-mate.
 
decent season as far as modern F1 goes.

best moment for me was lewis running out of fuel after setting pole in canada then jumping out and pushing his car down back straight.
also felt canada was the best race, always an entertaining track.
with turkey coming a close second for redbull and mclaren antics.

not as pleased as i would have liked to have been with the WDC, but you have to hand it to him he did what he had to do to win it, well deserved! just glad alonso ****** it up in the end!
still would have liked to see webber or lewis win it, but i dont like what ifs, the best driver in the best car won it, hats off to him and to red bull, they really were the class of the field this year, respect where respect is due!
 
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I want to see a Red bull overtaken by a McClaren who then gets back past a few corners later, and this goes on for a whole race.
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Yes. Thats exactly what I want to see.

I was watching an old race on BBC Sports website. Gilles Villeneuve fighting against another driver. They swapped positions for about 2 laps, non stop.

These days, you have a single overtaking move and then its game over. There doesn't seem to be any come back. My belief is that this is because of the dependence of aerodynamic down force - once the overtaking move has been completed (which is not easy in the first place), the car behind is at a serious disadvantage due to having the air it is entering into, disrupted by the car in front. This means that the car in front always has a significant advantage and it is unlikely that the car behind can come back at the driver in front.
 
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You know, I'd almost forgot about that!
A great bit of on track action during those few corners. Mclaren drivers giving Red Bull a masterclass on how to attempt an overtake on your team-mate.
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McLaren also gave RBR a master-class on how to force drivers to follow team-orders.

"Conserve fuel...Conserve fuel!!!"
 
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McLaren also gave RBR a master-class on how to force drivers to follow team-orders.

"Conserve fuel...Conserve fuel!!!"
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Or as Horner said from the pit lane on TV..MOVE OVER...MOVE OVER :p:D

Not a bad season at all.
The only thing that spoilt it for me was RB saying "WE DON'T HAVE A FLEX WING" week in and out
when every one in the world could see it flex.

Button done very well in his new team I can only see him getting better.
Lewis as normal was the best driver for me and with all the over taking he did and taking chances to move up a place
was a pleasure to watch.

Looking forward to 2011 but I can see the new rules on the rear wing causing a lot of arguments.
Imho they should have a standard front and rear wing.
 
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