Our Top-10 Articles in 2010

RichardsF1    Features, Richard's Top-10    

The 2010 Formula 1 season was full of intrigue and excitement from the word go, and dominated by a host of stories, scandals, delight and politics.

Our content has always aimed to put the fun back in F1, and with your support we’ve gone a long way to achieving that from the site’s very humble beginnings back in March when the richardsf1.com domain was created.

We’ve given you in-depth coverage of all of the events, brought you inside gossip and analysis, and broken news stories before other much larger and more established publications. Our exclusive interviews have been enormously popular (there will be plenty more to come in 2011!), and our ‘Top-10’ countdowns have proven equally well-visited.

So just what were the most popular articles on the Richard’s F1 website in 2010?

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DC to juggle commentary and racing in 2012?

RichardsF1    DTM, Former F1 Figures, Formula 1, News     BBC, BMW, David Coulthard, Jonathan Legard, Martin Brundle, Media, Mercedes

Former F1 Grand Prix winner David Coulthard holds out hopes that he will be able to remain in the DTM series long-term, with the addition of new manufacturers to the grid in the coming years.

But with DC also linked to a full-time role in the BBC F1 commentary box (as the replacement to the unpopular Jonathan Legard) alongside Martin Brundle, just how will he manage to juggle to both responsibilities?

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Solberg eyes 2011 WTCC gig

RichardsF1    News, WTCC    

Former World Rally Champion Petter Solberg is eyeing a switch to circuit racing, and is gunning for a drive in the 2011 World Touring Car Championship.

The Norwegian – a veteran on the WRC campaign since 1998 – last won a rally round in 2005 and clinched his World Championship crown in 2003 with Subaru. For the past two seasons, Solberg has been a consistent performer in his privately entered Citroën, achieving eight podium finishes in the thirteen-round championship in 2010, finishing third overall.

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Care to own a piece of F1 history?

RichardsF1    Former F1 Figures, Formula 1     Hispania Racing, Lola, Stefan GP

I’m certainly not promising it’s a good piece of Formula 1 history as I write this!

A former F1 outfit is selling one of its used spare cars as a complete rolling chassis (price ‘POA’) via online bidding on its website.

So just which car is it?

Force India keeps quiet on 2011 driver line-up

RichardsF1    Driver Market, Formula 1     Adrian Sutil, Force India, Jackie Stewart, Karun Chandhok, Narain Karthikeyan, Nick Heidfeld, Nico Hulkenberg, Niki Lauda, Paul di Resta

The Force India squad is – as yet – refusing to be drawn on the range of speculative theories as to its driver line-up for the 2011 season, with over half a dozen drivers allegedly up for consideration.

Despite both its current drivers, Adrian Sutil and Vitantonio Liuzzi, seemingly having contract extensions in the bag for next season, the FIA recently published an entry list for the 2011 F1 season, listing ‘TBA’ next to the driver names for both race seats in the Vijay Mallya owned outfit.

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Does the new car even exist?

RichardsF1    Formula 1     Geoff Willis, Hispania Racing, Technical

Hispania Racing has confirmed that it will run its 2010 car at the opening pre-season test session in February at the Valencia circuit, in the wake of team owner José Ramón Carabante confirming that his squad would be present at pre-season testing for the first time in its history.

At the same point before the 2010 season kicked off, the very future of the Hispania Racing outfit was so clouded that the team failed to show up to any pre-season testing at all, which its new buyers were staging a takeover from former team boss Adrián Campos.

Birthdays for Edwards and Hesnault!

RichardsF1    Birthdays, Former F1 Figures, Formula 1    

Today marks the respective birthdays for two of Formula 1’s rather more obscure drivers, with Guy Edwards (pictured left) turning 68 and François Hesnault (pictured right) turning 54!

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Evolution, not revolution, for RB7 chassis

RichardsF1    Formula 1     Adrian Newey, Red Bull Racing, Technical

Casting an ominous warning, Red Bull’s 2011 car will be an evolution of its pace-setting predecessors, according to the team’s chief designer, Adrian Newey.

This year’s championship-winning RB6 – which took 15 pole positions and 9 race victories en route to its maiden Drivers’ and Constructors’ championship crowns – was similarly an evolution of the equally rapid 2009 car (also penned by Newey), which was beaten by Brawn GP in spite of being the quickest car overall.

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Buemi quickest … on a waterslide!

RichardsF1    Formula 1     Sebastien Buemi

The winter off-season is typically slow period for everyone in the F1 fraternity, but it seems that Sébastien Buemi has found ways of keeping himself amused, by posting a new speed record on a series of waterslides!

The Toro Rosso pilot raced down the three high-speed waterslides at the famous Aquaparc in the Swiss resort town of Le Bouveret, faster than the venue’s previous record holder.

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Top Gear not very PC?

RichardsF1    Top Gear     James May, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond

Top Gear has come under fire from a small section of its viewership following scenes broadcast in its opening episode of Season 16 – reviewed here on our website – where co-hosts Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond dress up in burqas.

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