F1 2010: A Season of Magic

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Published: November 9, 2010

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Last season, a new era in Formula One was ushered in. Gone was the sole reliance on megabuck manufacturers dominating the sport and the necessity for sprawling factories housing hundreds upon hundreds of employees.

If this new era of resource restriction could be explained in a single word, it would be competitive.

The fascinating contrast through 2009 was indeed the racing, off the track even more so. The dichotomy of having what was in essence a privateer team being hounded and chased by more established squads with more scope and resources for R & D kept us on the edge of our seats, until the fairytale was complete and the rebranded Honda team clinched its first, and last, drivers and constructors titles under its then guise of Brawn GP.

This season, the evolution of this new era has taken hold and we’ve witnessed experience, success and the status quo return in the form of a rejuvenated Ferrari and McLaren, with Red Bull using last year’s relative failure and Adrian Newey to lead the charge in dominating fashion.

What is even more astounding is the fact that after two successive years of moderately large regulation changes which included a prohibition on refuelling and narrower front tyres to balance overall grip on the cars, the competition gap has shrunk and produced some enthralling action throughout 2009 and 2010.

An outright ban on refuelling during races for 2010 was expected to produce a higher frequency of overtaking and thus, a higher standard of racing.

Post-Bahrain, this theory had been well and truly consigned to the scrapheap as we witnessed one of the dullest races in living memory, despite the fact that there had been more overtakes during the 2010 running of the event than in 2009.

One thing that has made the 2010 season one of the most exciting in living memory has been the tendency of previously-thought invincibles to make mistakes. Fernando Alon...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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