Here is the NEW F1 thread.

A taste of whats gone before can be found here:
F1 2009

Enjoy.

Who will be quick off the blocks next year?
Will Kimi be racing?
Will Kers still be around?
Will there be a British GP?
Will I go to an F1 race?
Will anyone care?

Had to add this again..

The race line-up for next year:

2010 FIA Formula One World Championship calendar
14 March - Bahrain
28 March - Australia
4 April - Malaysia
18 April - China
9 May - Spain
16 May - Monaco
30 May - Turkey
13 June - Canada**
27 June - Europe (Valencia)
11 July - Great Britain*
25 July - Germany
1 August - Hungary
29 August - Belgium
12 September - Italy
26 September - Singapore
3 October - Japan*
17 October - Korea*
31 October - Abu Dhabi†
14 November - Brazil†

*Subject to the homologation of the circuit.
**Subject to the completion of contract negotiations with Formula One Management.
†The FIA has approved in principle a proposal to swap the dates of the Abu Dhabi and Brazil Grands Prix, pending agreement with the promoters of both events.

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlin.../10/10129.html

beaten to it

http://www.englishforum.ch/football-...f1-2010-a.html

Thats gonna suck. There HAS to be a british GP!!

Can't they go back to Silverstone?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8317977.stm

I would love it if Kimi went back to Mclaren. And hopefully Ferrari and Mclaren have competitive cars. A four way fight between the Brawn, Ferrari, Mclaren and Red Bull teams would be amazing.
Will any of the new teams have the success Brawn had this year?

We won't find that out until the end of the season. I heard on the news that McLaren are looking at Button now that his Brawn discussion aren't going as well as hoped.

I think he got £3 million for 2009 but wants to get back to the £8 million he was on and prob more

More speculation -

Button and Lewis in dream team

But rumours are that Lewis or maybe his managers etc doesn't want anyone too good to partner him. Hence them not really happy about the idea of Kimi joining.
Mind you, he may Button will be easier to beat.

I can't see Button moving to mclaren, the Merc buy in for Brawn has been known for a while, why would button leave a works team for what is going to become a customer team, I would have thought merc wouldn't be too keen on having a team without a top driver either, and even less keen on losing the new world champ. The kudos of having no 1 on your car is worth a hell of a lot of money.

The actual pay packet of the top drivers is nothing compared to there personal deals, look at MS, it was reconed he got $100m per year in personal deals, with that sort of cash you can drive for free, as long as you have a car capable of winning.

I agree. I don't think Button will move either and the prestige of the number one car in your team.

Heiki has got to get the boot but will Kim join them, Toyota or say bye bye

Heiki is supposed to be off to Renault, Kimi is an odd one, McLaren arn't the best payers in F1 and I'm sure Toyota will have offered him more money, but lets face it Toyota isn't going to be winning races anytime soon, so if he chooses toyota over mclaren its only down to cash.

I can't see him going to Toyota for the reason you sate, non winning car.

Hasn't he still got next years wages regardless what he does?

how long for, 4 years?

may as well just say congrats to Ferrari for winning the constuctors and drivers championships for 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 now then

Well Max has just finished a 16 year stint. Now now be nice

Now on the BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/moto...ne/8322334.stm

Words of warning for Silverstone

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/moto...ne/8323753.stm

That could mean that Alonso will break Schumacher's record for the number of championships. 2010 to 2025?

I don't see Ferrari losing too many appeals in the coming years.

Here we go He's only been in the job a day and his integrity is already being questioned.

By your thinking, Ferrari should have won more than 6 titles during Mosley's 16 year term. Heaven forbid if Ferrari win next year!!

Williams-2
Benetton-2
McLiaren-3
Ferrari-6
Renault-2
Brawn-1

Lets give the old boy a chance.

Just found this on Planet F1

http://www.planetf1.com/story/0,1895...659847,00.html

Basically it's Kimi saying to Finland MTV3, that it's either McLaren or nothing.
I would like to see him in F1 next year so maybe there will be an announcement over the weekend.

Also saw that Rosberg is leaving Williams but to where

he is off to brawn, rubens is off to williams (depending on button re-signing)