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Year 2010 brings a lot of changes to For­mula 1 rac­ing sea­son. Ever since 1947 — the first time when For­mula 1 race was held, it has evolved. It has sur­vived the whole gamut of rac­ing events to retains its spot as the most pop­u­lar, the fastest, the most fol­lowed and the niche of the rac­ing event every year.

But in last 4 years we have seen this sports change like the eng­lish sea­son. Along with the ever chang­ing rules, this year the play­ers of this games have changed. When I say play­ers of this game, I meant both the rac­ing dri­vers and the con­struc­ters. Here are some of the higlights

• 13 teams (means 26 rac­ing car)  for the race which includes 4 new teams.
• Rac­ing dri­ver
  • kimi Raikko­nen the “Ice man” out of For­mula 1  :(
  • Fer­nando Alonso joins Fer­rari. Hope he does not repeat what he did with Lewis in Mc Laren.
  • Jen­son But­ton joins McLaren
  • Nicko Ros­berg joins Mer­cedez . Check out for this guy, he is good.
  • Lotus sign Trulli and Kovalainen
  • Kamui Kobayashi joins Sauber
  • Finally Michael Schu­macher after his oo’s and aah’s moment of return­ing and not return­ing from his retire­ment is finally over. He is mak­ing a come­back but not with Fer­rari this time but with Mer­cedez. Do you think he will be able to get his 8th cham­pi­onship title in his comeback?
• Con­struc­tor Team
  • 4  new team — Cam­pos Meta, Vir­gin rac­ing, US F1 team, Lotus F1 team.
  • Brawn GP team bought by Mercedes
  • Sauber takes Toyota’s place on 2010 grid
• Rule changes (check this link for more details)
  • No refu­el­ing
  • A more com­plex points sys­tem. Guys make the sport com­pet­i­tive and dif­fi­cult for rac­ing team and not for the viewers.
  • No KERS to help heavy or tall dri­vers
  • Changes to how dri­vers are given time penal­ties after a race
  • A reduc­tion in the amount of one-day aero­dy­namic tests a team may con­duct from eight to six
  • Teams may now sub­sti­tute aero­dy­namic test days for 24 hours of full-scale wind tun­nel testing
  • Teams which choose to bring in a dri­ver with no prior F1 expe­ri­ence will be per­mit­ted an extra days’ test­ing on a non-calendar track
  • A new clause stip­u­lates that pit space will be allo­cated “on a strictly equal basis” – this space will be under pres­sure with the addi­tion of new teams in 2010
  • Teams are no longer allowed to use pow­ered devices to lift the cars in the pit lane
  • Although tyre warm­ers remain legal a new clause says the heat­ing ele­ment may only act on the sur­face of the tyre
  • There are new restric­tions on how teams can test tyres
  • Dri­vers who use two addi­tional engines dur­ing a week­end will be moved back ten places on the grid at that race and the next one
  • Dri­vers who get away slowly on the for­ma­tion lap and can­not start from their des­ig­nated start­ing posi­tion must start the race from the pit lane.
  • Dur­ing safety car peri­ods dri­vers must lap slower than a des­ig­nated lap time dis­played in their cars

So let me know what part will keep you inter­ested for F1 cham­pi­onship 2010. For me its going to be race between Alonso, Lewis Hamil­ton & the great Schumacher.