Complete F1 Fanatic 2010 season guide

Posted by Mikel on March 12th, 2010 at 07:55am

The sun comes up on a new season of Formula 1

Our 2010 F1 season preview has come to an end – which is just as well because the season starts soon!

Review the F1 Fanatic 2010 Season Preview in full below:

Teams, cars and drivers

All the 2010 teams and drivers. Check out the team information pages to find out more about their background and the major staff members at the factory.

Each team also has a preview looking at their form going into the new season, and biographies for each of their drivers.

McLaren

1. Jenson Button
2. Lewis Hamilton

Mercedes

3. Michael Schumacher
4. Nico Rosberg

Red Bull

5. Sebastian Vettel
6. Mark Webber

Ferrari

7. Felipe Massa
8. Fernando Alonso

Williams

9. Rubens Barrichello
10. Nico Hülkenberg

Renault

11. Robert Kubica
12. Vitaly Petrov

Force India

14. Adrian Sutil
15. Vitantonio Liuzzi

Toro Rosso

16. Sebastien Buemi
17. Jaime Alguersuari

Lotus

18. Jarno Trulli
19. Heikki Kovalainen

HRT

20. Karun Chandhok
21. Bruno Senna

Sauber

22. Pedro de la Rosa
23. Kamui Kobayashi

Virgin

24. Timo Glock
25. Lucas di Grassi

Rules

There are some important changes in the F1 rules this year including a revised points system, the banning of refuelling and new, narrower front tyres.

Find out more about the rules changes below:

Calendar

There are 19 races on the calendar this year. The biggest change is the addition of a new Grand Prix in Korea to be held in October.

This year also sees the return of the Canadian Grand Prix, which was missing from the 2009 schedule.

The German Grand Prix switched from the Nürburgring to the Hockenheimring (it rotates venues every year) and Bahrain and Silverstone each have new sequences of corners.

The full 2010 F1 calendar is below. You can also get a version which adds the time for every F1 session into your Google Calendar. It also comes in ICAL, XML and HTML flavours. Find it here: F1 Fanatic Google Calendar

Round	Dates	Race	Circuit
1	March 12-14th	Bahrain Grand Prix	Bahrain International Circuit
2	March 26-28th	Australian Grand Prix	Albert Park, Melbourne
3	April 2nd-4th	Malaysian Grand Prix	Sepang International Circuit
4	April 16-18th	Chinese Grand Prix	Shanghai International Circuit
5	May 7-9th	Spanish Grand Prix	Circuit de Catalunya
6	May 13-16th	Monaco Grand Prix	Monte-Carlo
7	May 28-30th	Turkish Grand Prix	Istanbul Park
8	June 11-13th	Canadian Grand Prix	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal
9	June 25-27th	European Grand Prix	Valencia Street Circuit
10	July 9-11th	British Grand Prix	Silverstone
11	July 23-25th	German Grand Prix	Hockenheimring
12	July 30th-August 1st	Hungarian Grand Prix	Hungaroring
13	August 27-29th	Belgian Grand Prix	Spa-Francorchamps
14	September 10-12th	Italian Grand Prix	Monza
15	September 24-26th	Singapore Grand Prix	Singapore
16	October 8-10th	Japanese Grand Prix	Suzuka
17	October 22-24th	Korean Grand Prix	Jeonnam*
18	November 5-7th	Brazilian Grand Prix	Interlagos
19	November 12-14th	Abu Dhabi Grand Prix	Yas Island

Features

More features looking ahead to the new season:

Twitter

Twitter has taken off in a big way over the last 12 months and you can now find many F1 drivers, teams and other personalities on there. Check out our F1 Twitter directory to find lots of F1 people to follow this year: F1 Twitter directory

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