Световен шампионат на Формула 1 (2010)

Jenson Button, 2009 World Champion with Brawn GP. Button will drive for McLaren in 2010.

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The 2010 Formula One season will be the 61st Formula One season. The technical and sporting regulations applicable for this season have been, and continue to be, the subject of much debate. The reigning Driver's Champion, Jenson Button, has joined McLaren, and the reigning Constructor's Champions, Brawn GP, have been bought by Mercedes-Benz and renamed Mercedes Grand Prix.

Dispute over regulations and breakaway series

The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) planned to introduce a budget cap to reduce costs in order to safeguard the sport during the current economic downturn. The proposal included an optional budget cap of €30 million ($45 million, £27 million), with greater technical and design freedoms allowed to teams who nominated to use it.

The teams objected to what they believed to be two sets of rules within the championship and five of the teams within the Formula One Teams Association (FOTA), Ferrari, BMW Sauber, Renault, Red Bull Racing and Toro Rosso announced their intentions to withdraw from the 2010 championship.Шаблон:Citation needed BMW Sauber announced on 29 July that they were withdrawing from Formula One at the end of the 2009 season.

Following a discussion, all ten of the FOTA teams unanimously decided to withdraw at the end of the 2009 season unless the budget cap rules were changed. Williams and Force India both later submitted their own entries and were temporarily suspended from FOTA.

The remaining FOTA teams all submitted conditional entries for the 2010 season before the entry list was published on June 12, which included all ten current teams and three new teams, Campos Meta 1, Virgin Racing and US F1 Team.

Discussions between the FIA and FOTA failed to find a resolution and the eight FOTA teams announced their intentions to form a breakaway series for 2010. However after a meeting of the World Motor Sport Council on 24 June, FOTA agreed to remain in Formula One and Max Mosley agreed to not to stand for re-election in October.

However, on 8 July, the FOTA group of teams walked out of a meeting with the FIA about future rules. FOTA were informed that they were not entered for the 2010 season and could therefore have no input on regulatory discussions. It was later announced that plans for a breakaway series were still being pursued.

FOTA have since expressed their interest in ending the conflict by negotiating the terms of a new Concorde Agreement directly with CVC, the company that controls the commercial rights to the sport, with a resolution possibly being found in time for the Hungarian Grand Prix.

On 1 August it was announced that the FIA had signed the new Concorde Agreement, bringing an end to the crisis and securing the sport's future until 2012.

Bernie Ecclestone has repeatedly stated his belief that several of the new teams will be unable to prepare in time for 2010 due to the lack of the FIA's cost cutting plans.

Pre-season testing and car launches

The new season test schedule started on 1 December 2009 with a three-day 'Young Driver Test' (for drivers who have less than three Formula One race starts to their name) at Spain's Circuito de Jerez.

(Details in bold indicate fastest lap)

Date	Location	Circuit	Fastest Driver	Team	Fastest Lap	Laps
2009
December 1	Jerez, Spain	Circuito de Jerez	Andy Soucek	Williams-Toyota	1:19.158	87
December 2			Gary Paffett	McLaren-Mercedes	1:18.718	80
December 3			Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-Renault	1:17.418	77

On December 10, 2009 Nick Fry of Mercedes Grand Prix revealed that the thirteen teams had agreed upon a joint launch party, to be held in Valencia, Spain in late January ahead of the first official test of the season at Circuit Ricardo Tormo, which has long been a popular venue for pre-season tests. Fry's comments came at the Motor Sport Business Forum in Monaco, where the teams admitted they had failed to utilise new technologies to engage with fans of the sport. Fry suggested that the concept of a joint launch would be the first step in engaging the fans.

Teams and drivers

The following teams and drivers will compete in the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship:

Team	Constructor	Chassis	Engine	Tyre	No.	Race Drivers	Test Driver(s)
Vodafone McLaren Mercedes	McLaren	MP4-25	Mercedes	Шаблон:Bridgestone	1	Jenson Button	TBA
					2	Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes Grand Prix	Mercedes	TBA	Mercedes	Шаблон:Bridgestone	3	Nico Rosberg	TBA
					4	TBA
Red Bull Racing	Red Bull	RB6	Renault	Шаблон:Bridgestone	5	Sebastian Vettel	TBA
					6	Mark Webber
Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro	Ferrari	TBA	Ferrari	Шаблон:Bridgestone	7	Felipe Massa	Giancarlo Fisichella
					8	Fernando Alonso
AT&T Williams	Williams	FW32	Cosworth	Шаблон:Bridgestone	9	Rubens Barrichello	TBA
					10	Nico Hülkenberg
Renault F1 Team1	Renault	R30	Renault	Шаблон:Bridgestone	11	Robert Kubica	TBA
					12	TBA
Force India F1 Team	Force India	VJM03	Mercedes	Шаблон:Bridgestone	14	Adrian Sutil	TBA
					15	Vitantonio Liuzzi
Scuderia Toro Rosso	Toro Rosso	TBA	Ferrari	Шаблон:Bridgestone	16	Sébastien Buemi	TBA
					17	TBA2
Lotus F1 Racing	Lotus	TBA	Cosworth	Шаблон:Bridgestone	18	Jarno Trulli	Fairuz Fauzy
					19	Heikki Kovalainen
Campos Meta 1	Campos	TBA	Cosworth	Шаблон:Bridgestone	20	TBA	TBA
					21	Bruno Senna
US F1 Team	US F1	TBA	Cosworth	Шаблон:Bridgestone	22	TBA3	TBA
					23	TBA
Virgin Racing	Virgin	VR-01	Cosworth	Шаблон:Bridgestone	24	Timo Glock	Álvaro Parente Luiz Razia
					25	Lucas Di Grassi
Sauber	Sauber	C29	Ferrari	Шаблон:Bridgestone	TBA	TBA	TBA
					TBA	TBA

Notes:

1.↑ - The Renault F1 Team was sold to Genii Capital on December 16, 2009. Under the terms of the deal, Genii purchased a 75% stake in the team, which will continue to operate under the Renault name.

2.↑ - Jaime Alguersuari and his management have said that he has renewed his contract with Toro Rosso for next year, although the team has yet to confirm this.

3.↑ - José María López will race for US F1 Team on the condition that he is able to put together an eight million-dollar sponsorship package within one week. Sources close to López claim he has eighty percent of the funds he needs to secure the race seat.

New entries process

The FIA announced its intention to open up the grid, aiming for a total of 14 teams. The FIA revealed that it received 15 entries from new teams (in addition to the 10 teams currently involved in Formula One) for 2010. The existing F1 teams, under the FOTA organisation, are understood to have agreed a system of technical support to assist new teams. This compromise proposal would involve the supply of parts and design knowledge to the new entrants, but not full customer cars, in return for which the budget cap idea was dropped.

The four new teams which are included in the entry list are:

• Campos Meta 1, Spanish-based GP2 team led by former racing driver Adrián Campos, who lodged an entry for his Campos Racing team in conjunction with Meta Image.
• Virgin Racing, headed by F3 owner John Booth and former team owner Nick Wirth was an unknown entrant until the FIA published the 2010 entry list on 12 June 2009. The team was originally entered as Manor Grand Prix prior to Virgin's investment.
• US F1 Team, a group led by designer Ken Anderson and former Williams employee Peter Windsor.
• Lotus F1 Racing, a partnership between the Malaysian government and a consortium of Malaysian entrepreneurs. Mike Gascoyne, whose previous Lotus entry with Litespeed was unsuccessful will be the technical director.

The unsuccessful applicants are known to include:

• Brabham, team established by German company Formtech, led by Franz Hilmer, acquired the rights to the Brabham Grand Prix name and submitted an entry for the 2010 Formula 1 season. Formtech had already purchased the assets of the Super Aguri Formula 1 team in June 2008, after Super Aguri's bankruptcy in May 2008. According to previous reports the former Force India managing director Colin Kolles was also involved in the project. The original Brabham founder Jack Brabham was not consulted on the use of his former team's name, and the Brabham family have threatened to take legal action against the usage of their name.
• Epsilon Euskadi, an established Spanish team which has run cars in various junior single-seater formulae, and has also built its own Le Mans Prototype. Epsilon remains interested in securing an entry for 2010, following the withdrawal of the BMW Sauber team.
• Lola Cars, British racing car constructor Lola Cars, which has been involved in Formula One several times in its history, confirmed that it submitted an entry for the 2010 championship. Although the FIA asked that Lola be placed on standby in the event of a team withdrawing, on June 17 the company announced that it had requested its entry be officially withdrawn. However, Lola owner Martin Birrane said that if another spot opens for 2010 season, they'll be ready to relaunch the project.
• Team Lotus, established by Formula Three team Litespeed and designer Mike Gascoyne who had recently parted with Force India, and purchased rights to the Lotus name from David Hunt.
• March Racing Organisation, a re-imagining of the March team formed by Max Mosley, Alan Rees, Graham Coaker and Robin Herd that ran from Шаблон:F1 to Шаблон:F1 (with a brief interlude as Leyton House Racing in Шаблон:F1 and Шаблон:F1). The entry was submitted by Andrew Fitton, who had acquired the rights to the name in the lead-up to the 1993 season.
• myf1dream.com, a proposed team established by fans of the sport and supported by their donations.
• N.Technology, lodged application following success in World Touring Car Championship, but withdrew its entry following FOTA's announcement of a breakaway series, not wanting to be involved in a series without the presence of the manufacturers. MSC, the British company behind the entry, later challenged the selection process for new teams at the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Paris; on 25 November 2009 the Tribunal upheld the FIA's process and ordered MSC to pay the FIA's costs.
• Prodrive F1, led by Aston Martin chairman and Prodrive founder David Richards, announced their application to enter Formula One with financial backing from Dar Capital. This followed a previous attempt to join F1 in Шаблон:F1. With Reanult looknig to exit the sport ahead of the 2010 season, Prodrive was confirmed as a potential buyer in December 2009.
• Stefan Grand Prix, a team backed by Serbian engineering company AMCO and named for team principal Zoran Stefanovic. The entry remained unknown until August when Stefanovic lodged a complaint with the European Commission, of a similar nature to that of N.Technology. On September 29, Stefanovic announced his plans to compete in Bahrain, despite not having an entry for the 2010 season. As of December 2009, Stefanovic was still pursuing a 2010 grid position despite the thirteenth grid position having been awarded to Sauber.
• Team Superfund, a new team established by former driver Alexander Wurz and funded by Christian Baha, the owner of Superfund Group.

Experienced sports car team Ray Mallock Limited had originally intended to submit an entry and run with the Cosworth spec engine, but ultimately decided against it, citing the current budget cap row and uncertainty over the 2010 regulations as reasons for their decision. They have not, however, ruled out a future entry bid.

2010 Calendar

On September 21, 2009 the provisional 2010 calendar was issued by the World Motor Sport Council containing 19 races. Another provisional calendar was released on October 21, 2009 with the Abu Dhabi and Brazilian races switching dates, subject to the promoters of both races. The final calendar was released on December 11, 2009.

Round	Race Title	Grand Prix	Circuit	Date	Time
					Local	UTC
1	Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix	Bahrain GP	Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, Manama	14 March	15:00	12:00
2	Australian Grand Prix	Australian GP	Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne, Victoria	28 March	17:00	06:00
3	Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix	Malaysian GP	Sepang International Circuit, Kuala Lumpur	4 April	16:00	08:00
4	Chinese Grand Prix	Chinese GP	Shanghai International Circuit	18 April	14:00	06:00
5	Gran Premio de España Telefónica	Spanish GP	Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona	9 May	14:00	12:00
6	Grand Prix de Monaco	Monaco GP	Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo	16 May	14:00	12:00
7	Turkish Grand Prix	Turkish GP	Istanbul Park	30 May	14:00	11:00
8	Grand Prix du Canada	Canadian GP	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal	13 June	12:00	16:00
9	Telefónica Grand Prix of Europe	European GP	Valencia Street Circuit	27 June	14:00	12:00
10	Santander British Grand Prix	British GP	Silverstone Circuit	11 July	13:00	12:00
11	Großer Preis Santander von Deutschland	German GP	Hockenheimring	25 July	14:00	12:00
12	Magyar Nagydíj	Hungarian GP	Hungaroring, Budapest	1 August	14:00	12:00
13	Belgian Grand Prix	Belgian GP	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa	29 August	14:00	12:00
14	Gran Premio Santander d'Italia	Italian GP	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	12 September	14:00	12:00
15	SingTel Singapore Grand Prix	Singapore GP	Marina Bay Street Circuit	26 September	20:00	12:00
16	Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix	Japanese GP	Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka	10 October	15:00	06:00
17	Korean Grand Prix†	Korean GP	Korean International Circuit, Yeongam	24 October	14:00	05:00
18	Grande Prêmio Petrobras do Brasil	Brazilian GP	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo	7 November	14:00	16:00
19	Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix	Abu Dhabi GP	Yas Marina Circuit	14 November	17:00	13:00

Notes:

• † The Korean Grand Prix is subject to the circuit's completion in time.

Changes

Driver changes

Changed teams

• Giancarlo Fisichella will become Ferrari's reserve and test driver in 2010, having left Force India and joined Ferrari towards the end of Шаблон:F1 as a substitute for the injured Felipe Massa. However, Ferrari announced that Fisichella could be loaned out to another team if he is offered a race seat.
• Fernando Alonso will leave Renault to drive for Ferrari in 2010, as a replacement for Kimi Räikkönen who left the team at the end of the 2009 season. Alonso has signed a three year deal up to the end of Шаблон:F1, with options for further years.
• Robert Kubica will leave BMW Sauber to drive for Renault in 2010, as a replacement for Alonso.
• Nico Rosberg confirmed he will leave Williams at the end of the 2009 season after four years with the team, but gave no indication as to who he would be racing for in 2010. On November 23, it was confirmed that Rosberg would move to the newly-formed Mercedes Grand Prix.
• Rubens Barrichello will move from Brawn to Williams.
• Timo Glock officially joined Virgin Racing on November 17, 2009. Glock had previously been signed to Toyota, but the Japanese team had elected not to take up the option on his contract as early as the 2009 Singapore Grand Prix, leaving Glock as a free agent.
• Jenson Button will join Lewis Hamilton at McLaren following the failure to negotiate a contract with Mercedes Grand Prix, which bought out his 2009 team, Brawn GP. This will mean that McLaren have signed the two most-recent World Champions, and will have the sport's first double-champion line-up since Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost - also driving for McLaren - in Шаблон:F1.
• Jarno Trulli will move from Toyota to Lotus F1 Racing.
• Heikki Kovalainen will be Trulli's team-mate at Lotus F1 Racing, after leaving McLaren.

Entered Formula One

Bruno Senna will make his debut with the new Campos Meta team.

• Bruno Senna, nephew of three-time World Champion Ayrton Senna, will join Campos Meta in 2010, returning the Senna name to Formula One sixteen years after his uncle's death.
• Nico Hülkenberg, 2009 GP2 Series champion, will make his debut in Formula One with Williams, alongside Barrichello.
• Lucas Di Grassi, who placed third in the 2009 GP2 Series, will partner Timo Glock at Virgin Racing.

Exited Formula One

• Kimi Räikkönen will be taking a one-year "sabbatical" from Formula One in 2010 after his managers confirmed that negotiations with McLaren officially came to an end. On December 4, it was confirmed that Raikkonen would be joining the Citroën Junior Team in the 2010 World Rally Championship, driving a Citroën C4 WRC in twelve of the thirteen rounds of the championship.

Team changes

• Three new teams were selected to join the grid for the 2010 season; US F1 Team, Campos Meta and Manor Grand Prix. Manor Grand Prix later announced they will be competing under the name Virgin Racing, confirming months of speculation that the team would be sponsored by Richard Branson's Virgin Group.
• On 29 July 2009, BMW Sauber announced their withdrawal from Formula One at the end of the 2009 Formula One season, citing a lack of future viability and sustainability for the Formula One program. BMW originally were granted the reserve spot on the grid after a proposed buy out by Qadbak Investments, however on 27 November, the team was sold back to Peter Sauber and it became apparent that Qadbak Investments was a shell company owned and operated for the purposes of fraud. The FIA offically accepted the team to the 2010 grid under the name Sauber on 3 December, using Ferrari engines.
• Following the withdrawal of BMW Sauber, the FIA announced their vacant grid position would be filled by Lotus F1 Racing, run by Tony Fernandes and Mike Gascoyne, with backing from the Malaysian government.
• Toyota announced their withdrawal from Formula One on 4 November 2009, due to economic hardship. After announcing they would not sell the team on, their grid slot went to the Sauber team.
• Scuderia Toro Rosso will become an independent constructor for 2010, instead of having their chassis supplied by Red Bull Technologies. This allowed the team to purchase customer chassis, despite the concept being banned, due to the chassis being supplied by a design studio. This rule is being amended in time for 2010, meaning that the season will be the first in which Toro Rosso run their own car, having spent most of Шаблон:F1 expanding their base of operations in Faenza, Italy to accommodate production facilities.
• On November 16, it was announced that Brawn GP would be renamed Mercedes Grand Prix for the 2010 season onwards, ending speculation that their fifteen-year relationship with McLaren was about to come to an end, with the German manufacturer buying a 75.1% controlling stake in the team. McLaren will purchase Mercedes' 40% stake in the McLaren Group before the 2011 season, but Mercedes will continue to supply McLaren engines and sponsorship until 2015.
• Responding to speculation that they would join BMW and Toyota in withdrawing, Renault initially denied that they would take the opportunity and instead assess their position, with a full announcement expected before the end of 2009. However, on December 4 it was confirmed that Renault had several offers for the team, and on December 16 the sale was confirmed. The team was purchased by Luxembourg-based investment banker Gerard Lopez and his Genii Capital investment company. Under the terms of the deal, Renault will retain a 25% minority holding, while the team will continue to race under the Renault name. The deal leaves open the possibility for Renault to regain complete ownership of the team and continue to run it once the global economic situation has stabilised.

Calendar changes

• The British Grand Prix was due to move from Silverstone Circuit to Donington Park in 2010, but on October 23, 2009, the owners of Donington Park admitted that plans to raise £135 million through a bond had failed. After extended negotiations with Bernie Ecclstone, the organisers of the Silverstone circuit came to an agreement that will see the British Grand Prix hosted by the circuit for the next seventeen years, despite Ecclestone's earlier assertations that Siverstone would not be hosting the race again. Work to the circuit for the 2010 British motorcycle Grand Prix means that the British Grand Prix may be run on the circuit's new "Arrowhead" configuration. However, Silverstone officials will wait until early in 2010 to make a decision on which circuit configuration the race will run on.
• The Japanese Grand Prix was due to return to Fuji Speedway for 2010, as part of a year-on-year rotation with Suzuka Circuit. However, Fuji's owners Toyota announced that they had abandoned plans for Fuji to hold the race, citing the global recession as the main reason for this. Suzuka will continue to hold the event in 2010 and in 2011.
• The Canadian Grand Prix will return in 2010 after its one-year absence.
• South Korea is to make its first appearance on the F1 calendar under the name Korean Grand Prix with a race being held at the Korean International Circuit in Yeongam on October 17 (subject to the circuit's completion in time).

Rule changes

Proposed

• A budget cap of £40m ($63.7m, €45.4m) was originally proposed for 2010, with teams choosing to take up the budget cap being allowed greater technical freedom, together with unlimited testing. Teams choosing not to take up the budget cap would have been able to spend freely, but with technical and testing constraints. However, the budget cap idea was dropped following the political crisis in the middle of the season.

Confirmed

• Refuelling is to be abolished for the first time since Шаблон:F1. As a consequence, the cars will be allowed to refuel after the third part of qualifying. The 2010 F1 cars are expected to look a little more bloated at the rear due to a larger fuel tank between the driver and engine. Despite the resolution over the budget cap meaning that the 2010 regulations would default back to the 2009 rules, FOTA have expressed interest in a refuelling ban as it represents a way to cut costs.
• Formula One Management will offer financial support to all new teams from next season, in the form of $10m (£6.25m, €6.8m) along with the free transportation of two chassis and 10,000 kg (22,049 lbs) of freight to each race.
• FOTA has agreed to scrap KERS for 2010 due to poor uptake and pressure from FIA to cut costs, although KERS is not banned in the regulations.
• The minimum car weight will be increased from 605 kg to 620 kg (1,334 lbs to 1,367 lbs) to stop taller and heavier drivers being at a disadvantage if KERS is added to their car, which will still be allowed in 2010, despite FOTA's agreement not to use the system.
• The maximum number of cars allowed to take part in a race shall be increased from 24 to 26 cars.
• The qualifying system will change to accommodate the extra cars: 8 cars will drop out of the first qualifying session, 8 from the second and as in 2009, 10 cars will shoot-out for pole in the third session. The third session will now be run in low-fuel configuration due to the refuelling ban.
• Wheel covers which have been used by the teams since 2006 are also set to be banned for 2010
• During negotiations of a new Concorde Agreement at the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, several details emerged of cost-cutting proposals by the teams including:

• Homologation of front and rear wings.
• A limit on the number of aerodynamic upgrades permitted over the course of a season.
• A continuation of the ban on in-season testing introduced for 2009.
• Restrictions on the number of team personnel who can attend a Grand Prix weekend.
• Complete closures of team factories over the mid-season summer break.

• A new points system has been ratified for 2010, in response to the increased grid. Since 2003, points had been awarded to the top eight finishers: ten points for first, eight for second, six for third and all the way down to one for eighth place. The 2010 system will see 25 points for first, 20 for second, 15 for third, ten for fourth and then eight, six, five, three, two, and finally to one for fifth through to tenth place.
• The stewarding system will be overhauled for 2010. Rather than having a rotating line-up of stewards, they will now be drawn from a smaller, fixed pool of permanent stewards that will include former drivers. This is an attempt to make the stewarding process more transparent, following recent controversies involving the stewards.
• Шаблон:F1 saw the teams banned from conducting any testing once the season had commenced. This will be amended for 2010, with stand-in drivers being permitted to complete one day of testing at a circuit that is not on the calendar. This was introduced in response to a situation arising whereby rookie drivers such as Jaime Alguersuari and Romain Grosjean were unable to physically drive a Formula One car ahead of Friday practice on their debut.

Sponsorship changes

• ING originally decided to end its involvement with Formula One at the end of the 2009 season, which included title sponsorship of Renault along with the Australian, Hungarian and Belgian Grands Prix. The company cited the global economic crisis as the reason for its decision not to renew its involvement. However, in the wake of the Singapore investigations, the company decided to terminate the sponsorship with Renault early after Renault was found guilty of having fixed the race.
• Watch brand TW Steel has been confirmed as the first new sponsor of the Renault F1 Team, as the "Official Timing Partner", in a three-year deal running until 2012.
• RBS will also not renew its sponsorship of Williams beyond the end of 2010. RBS will also cancel its trackside sponsorship as of the start of 2010.
• YouTube founder Chad Hurley has joined US F1 Team as the team's primary investor.
• Virgin Group have bought a 20% stake of Manor Grand Prix and plan to rename the team. This was confirmed in the entry list released on November 30, with the team being renamed Virgin Racing.
• At the 2009 Italian Grand Prix, Banco Santander announced a five-year deal with Ferrari to become the team's "main" sponsor starting in 2010; McLaren later announced that their partnership with Banco Santander had been extended. This means that Banco Santander will sponsor both teams from 2010.