Formula 1 - 2010 Season

[Lightman]

Congratz Vettel and RBR!

Ferrari didn't do their maximum and Alonso was destined to struggle behind Petrov because of the deficit in straight line speed. I wonder who at Ferrari thought Fernando can overtake a car with 5km/h higher straight line speed on a track where the only overtaking point is at the end of a long straight?
Oh, I know, they were hoping Petrov crashes as usually

Brilliant drive from Kubica, from effectively P14 to P5 with two best overtaking moves of the race. All that in a car which struggled for rear end grip all weekend!

Webber after first tyre change realized that his car hasn't got straight line speed advantage to overtake cars in front and just drove rounds without a fight (or he didn't want to aid his team mate for maiden WDC).

Not to forget Button doing perfect weekend, just how much simple change of brake pad material do to his driving abilities!

Hamilton was very quick, but realistically not quick enough to challenge Vettel. Kudos to him for trying his best though!

Great season! Can't wait for beginning of next one!

 

[Phil]

What a glorious victory for no team orders.

Congratulations to Vettel. What a stunning performance throughout the year. Huge thumbs up to Petrov as well. Hope he'll be able to keep his seat.

 

[Phil]

Team orders over the radio? maybe not. But over the years I've seen more than enough cases of one driver conveniently getting past his teammate with well planned pitstops.

Comparing a few years ago to this years season isn't quite the same, because of the ban on refueling. A few years ago - you'd often end up with team mates held up behind each other because of different race strategies. For both strategies to work, it's essential that both drivers do the best they can on the fuel load they're carrying. To have a team conviniently have one pass his teammate to make his strategy work therefore isn't exactly the same as having Alonso/Massa (or any other two teammates this year) on the same strategy, the same fuel load, both having track position and racing each other having to order one to let the other by.

 

[Tahir2]

Seb deserved the win in the end, but this season was really not the norm. Usually a car as far ahead of the rest of the pack would have meant an easy wrapping up of the season much earlier.
The drivers this season made a lot of costly mistakes, including all the 5 championship contenders. It was Seb and Mark towards the middle of the season, Lewis towards the end and Alonso at the start of the season. All in all everyones mistakes and mechanical failures cancelled out and... the fastest driver (by going by pole positions alone) in the fastest car won.

Alonso at one point stated he wanted Lewis to win the race, something that Lewis was quite surprised at considering their history.

 

[AlphaWolf]

Alonso at one point stated he wanted Lewis to win the race, something that Lewis was quite surprised at considering their history.

Well, If hamilton had won the race, Alonso would have won the WDC.

That's quite sporting of Alonso.

 

[Tahir2]

... And not because of Lewis Hamilton's rather stylish goatee and ear piercing? Shirley not!

 

[Davros]

Alonso yesterday

 

[Bludd]

Hahaha, Davros. Nice one.

Anyway, it was an amazing season. Every major player had problems during the season, every single one made mistakes. Vettel deserves the championship, Red Bull deserves theirs. Next year will be just as amazing or even better.