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HAMILTON, LEWIS

Throughout the difficult 2007 season, McLaren insisted that Lewis was always given exactly the same equipment as his team-mate Fernando Alonso.

Born in the picturesque English hamlet of Stevenage in 1985, Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton was named after the American sprinter Carl Lewis and the legendary British easy listening DJ David Hamilton. He has since moved to Switzerland and attempted to distance himself from association with David Hamilton.

Hamilton famously approached McLaren boss Ron Dennis at the Autosport Awards in 1995 and told him that he wanted to race for him one day. Dennis told the ten-year-old Hamilton to call him in a few years and thus was a mutually rewarding relationship forged. Some of the more disreputable members of the dotdotdotcomma staff have since adopted a similar strategy in approaching girls in clubs, although they have yet to demonstrate a level of success anything like Hamilton managed.

On his way to F1, Hamilton picked up titles in karting, Formula Renault UK, the F3 Euroseries and GP2, after which he picked up Nicole Scherzinger, who was apparently already a well-known singer with girl band Pussycat Dolls, but who first came to the attention of the dotdotdotcomma editorial team for wearing a really smashing dress during the title-deciding race at Brazil in 2008 and then jumping about in it quite a lot.

Hamilton's time in F1 has been far from dull and he has shown almost as much ill-conceived misjudgement as he has jaw-dropping ability. The audacious overtaking moves and lightning pace have been accompanied by pit-lane crashes and overly optimistic first-lap lunges, as well as more than his fair share of FIA wrist-slaps.

The decision to strip him of his win at Spa in 2008, seemingly for being too good at overtaking Kimi Raikkonen, still baffles those of us who don't wear Ferrari T-shirts.

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VETTEL, SEBASTIAN

Sebastian draws attention to the plight of 'slanty-finger syndrome' sufferers whenever he gets the opportunity.

Sebastian Vettel holds pretty much all the "youngest ever" F1 records going and several that hadn't even been thought of before he turned up in his pushchair as Sauber's Friday driver in 2006.

At the time of his F1 race debut in 2007, he hadn't actually won a title since taking the 2004 German Formula BMW Championship - not exactly a blue riband championship - and he had twice failed to win the F3 Euroseries, being pipped to the title at his second attempt by team-mate Paul di Resta, a man almost as dull out of the cockpit as he is scintillating in it.

Vettel started as he meant to go on, however, setting a record just six seconds into his F1 career by speeding in the pit lane as soon as he left the garage and chalking up comfortably the shortest time ever between making your debut as an F1 racing driver and incurring a penalty. He's been setting records on a seemingly daily basis ever since and marks each one by shouting, "That's what I'm talking about!", although he usually hasn't ever mentioned it before.

Early in his F1 career he was often referred to as "the new Schumacher" because he (a) comes from Germany, and (2) began racing at the Kerpen karting track, although he has conspicuously failed to live up to the nickname by not repeatedly driving his rivals off the track, parking his car in the middle of the track during qualifying in Monaco or being disqualified from a whole season for trying to kill Jacques Villeneuve, however justified that may have seemed at the time.

Unlike many of his contemporaries, Vettel continually changes his helmet design, which should make it more difficult to identify him during a race, although oddly enough it has probably made it easier: if there's a driver whose helmet you don't recognise, the chances are Sebastian Vettel is wearing it and if you can't be bothered to learn helmet designs, you can recognise Vettel because he'll be the bloke leading the race.

A life-long sufferer of slanty-finger syndrome (digitalis diagonalis), Sebastian is unable to point his index fingers straight up. His own condition is the "30-degree" strain, for which there is currently no cure; we can only hope that he simply stops qualifying in pole position and winning races, so that he will no longer be forced to display his disability in public and we can all stop laughing at him when he does.

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RAIKKONEN, KIMI

Oi, Kimi, fancy a pint?

Kimi Raikkonen clearly loves his racing but can just as clearly take or leave everything that goes with it. Often electrifying behind the wheel, he sounds so wretchedly bored by the whole affair when he's interviewed that you're left wondering exactly why he carries on. He is, to borrow Martin Brundle's memorable phrase, extremely low-voltage.

Raikkonen entered F1 with Sauber in 2001, despite only having competed in 23 car races in his life. He'd won 13 of them but the FIA still needed convincing that he wasn't going to be a danger to himself and others before they issued his superlicence. They needn't have worried: Kimi scored a point in his debut race, having reportedly been asleep only half an hour before the start.

When Mika Hakkinen retired from the sport, Kimi was snapped up by McLaren, where they need to have a Finnish driver to prevent the fall of the Tower of London or something, so Raikkonen found himself paired with David Coulthard, during a season that once again turned out not to be the Scot's year.

Several seasons of poor reliability led Kimi to sign for Ferrari from 2007 and it turned out to be a good choice, since he won the title in his first season with the team, overcoming a seemingly insurmountable 17-point deficit to rookie Lewis Hamilton in the final two races.

It has, however, been Kimi's extra-curricular activities that have generated the most column inches. He has had contretemps with photographers, out-stripped lap-dancers, won snowmobile races under the pseudonym "James Hunt", been thrown out of nightclubs with his inflatable dolphin, raced powerboats dressed as a gorilla and and married a model.

After an electrical fire led to his retirement from second place in Monte Carlo in 2006, the TV cameras followed Kimi as he stomped through the streets, helmet still on, and straight onto a yacht (presumably his own) floating in the harbour. It wouldn't be much of a stretch to imagine him subsequently drinking it dry.

The yacht, that is, not the harbour.

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KUBICA, ROBERT

Robert Kubica, Canada 2007: he's in there somewhere.

The first Polish F1 racing driver, Robert Kubica also possesses the most remarkable nose seen in the sport since the days of Alain Prost. Even the 2004 Williams "walrus nose" didn't make as many people jump when they saw it for the first time.

Pushing his startling proboscis to one side for a moment (no mean feat in itself), Kubica has quickly come to be recognised as one of the very finest talents around. His exemplary 2008 season was seen by many as more deserving of a title than those of the McLaren and Ferrari drivers, who actually stood a chance of winning it.

His maiden victory in Canada during the 2008 season was scored at the track where a year previously he had crashed spectacularly, clipping Jarno Trulli's Toyota and becoming airborne before striking a crash barrier at over 185mph. The accident subjected Kubica momentarily to 75G but a trip to hospital revealed nothing more than light concussion and a sprained ankle.

Either safety had come a long way in F1 or they build them tough in Krakow.

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MERCEDES GP

An artist's impression of exactly how far into the background a grey-coloured F1 car could fade.

Mercedes GP was born when Brawn GP's amazingly successful combined inaugural and valedictory year in F1 prompted the car manufacturers' großen Käse to buy a controlling interest in the team at the end of 2009.

The takeover was not intended to cause any undue instability, however; the new team would continue to be based in Brackley, less than 30 miles from Mercedes's F1 engine factory in Brixworth, giving the whole operation a distinctly German flavour.

The team pulled off a bit of a coup - or scored a massive own goal, depending on where your loyalties lie - by signing Michael Schumacher on a three-year contract, which sees the seven-time champion reinstated as the sport's undisputed number-one villain and, dare we say, wanker.

Sponsorship for 2010 comes from Malaysian oil company Petronas, whose turqoise logo should clash nicely with the dreary grey livery traditionally favoured by Mercedes.

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FERRARI

Gilles Villeneuve as nature intended, back when Ferrari were crap but almost lovable.

No team polarises fans quite like Ferrari: some believe that they can do no wrong, despite a vast and growing body of evidence to the contrary; other, sounder minds put them in roughly the same category as Lucius Malfoy, Jabba the Hutt and Sandi Toksvig.

Until fairly recently, the team had a reputation for passionate disorganisation, which occasionally somehow produced a decent car, and there was no end of very good drivers queuing up to put their mark on a contract for the scuderia, only to be disappointed by the tractor they were given to race.

The Brawn/Todt/Schumacher/Byrne axis changed all that. Suddenly the cars were quick, driveable and bullet-proof, while behind the scenes this highly political team fostered its "special relationship" with the FIA, leading to all manner of dubious rule interpretations in favour of the red cars.

That the team inspires such extreme reactions is partly a product of its own success (many people love to hate the ultra-successful - just ask Man Utd, Bill Gates or Patrick Kielty) but also because of the strutting arrogance and faux innocence with which it has been achieved. The lesson, which seems to be repeatedly lost on Ferrari, is to win, lose and get caught breaking the rules with equal good grace.

Some of our readers doubtless question the extent of dotdotdotcomma's continued antipathy towards the scuderia but when repeatedly faced with the team's insufferable arrogance in victory, sanctimonious posturing at perceived wrongs and instinctive refusal to accept blame, it's the only sane response.

There. We got all the way through that without once calling them a bunch of cheating c*nts.

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RED BULL

Mark Webber in the car that started the anvil wing craze, Australia 2008.

Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz, having spent years sponsoring anything with wheels and an engine, eventually decided to use a small proportion of the profits from his still surprisingly lucrative carbonated drinks empire to buy not one but two Formula One teams: Red Bull and Toro Rosso.

Red Bull has done its best to assume the "most fun team in F1" mantle formerly worn by Jordan and indulges in various high jinks to make the point: the pit crew up dressed as Star Wars characters to promote one of the dreadful prequels, David Coulthard stopped shaving every day and Christian Horner jumped into a swimming pool wearing nothing but a Superman cape, which did at least have the effect of stopping him saying "Y'know" for a couple of minutes.

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MCLAREN

Bruce McLaren takes his team's first Grand Prix victory, Belgium 1968.

Founded by the Kiwi Bruce McLaren in 1963, Bruce McLaren Motor Racing merged in 1981 with the Project 4 team, which was being run by the barn owl Ron Dennis. The team is now part of McLaren Racing, a member of the McLaren Group, under the umbrella of McLaren Holdings, a subsidiary of McLaren PLC, which is wholly owned by McLaren (World Domination) Ltd.

Bruce McLaren is currently the only driver to have won a Formula One world championship race in a car bearing his own name as a constructor*, although the dotdotdotcomma-sponsored driver Panasonic Toyota, currently racing a borrowed Caterham with limited success, is optimistic of one day becoming the second.

The team has rapidly become one of the most successful in F1 history and is widely regarded as technologically top-notch, if sometimes a little fragile operationally. They are constantly trying to persuade everyone that they may be stiff and corporate but they still know how to have a good time. It's not terribly convincing.

They're far from unemotional, however, and Ron Dennis can often be glimpsed furtively wiping away a tear or two of joy. In fact, when one of his favoured drivers has won against seemingly insuperable odds during a troubled time for the team, it can sometimes be hard to hear the national anthems over the sound of Ron's blubbing.

*Other than, we've just realised, Jack Brabham. Who also won the world championship. Arse. Rest assured, our research team will be hung, drawn and quartered. Or should that be "hanged"?

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RENAULT

Jean-Pierre Jabouille in the RS01, the first turbo-charged F1 car.

The history of Renault in F1 reads like a company with an addiction it's trying to kick.

They entered the sport as a constructor in 1977, winning a respectable number of races but no championships, then spent one season (1986) as an engine supplier, before pulling out completely at the end of the year.

After going cold turkey for a couple of years, they rejoined the sport as an engine supplier in 1989, winnning five drivers' and six constructors' titles, before quitting again in 1997. By 2000 the itch had to be scratched again, so they bought the Benetton team, although they didn't rebrand it as Renault until the 2002 season.

They have introduced a number of innovations to the sport, including turbo-charged engines (since banned), V10 engines (since banned) and mass-damper systems (since banned). The one thing they seem to have pioneered that hasn't been outlawed is something that actually makes the cars slower: live-feed in-car cameras.

The team persists in building their chassis in Oxfordshire and their engines several hundred miles away, somewhere in france. There is undoubtedly a very good reason for this, although your chronicler admits that any sort of logical explanation eludes him at the moment.

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TORO ROSSO

Sebastian Vettel takes a frankly astonishing first win for both himself and his team at Monza in 2008.

Forged from the remnants of Minardi, Toro Rosso is Red Bull's junior F1 team. The arrangement lets Red Bull (a) try out unproven young drivers and (2) take cocky french multiple Champ Car champions down a peg or two.

The team benefits from an unspecified amount of help from its senior team but is still free to plough its own furrow. In 2007, for instance, it used Ferrari engines rather than the Renault power units favoured by Red Bull, which proved, if nothing else, that the Ferrari team must have had one hell of a chassis.

Toro Rosso has yet to inspire the same level of support enjoyed by Minardi, although it was on the right lines when a senior manager occasioned a physical assault upon the wholly objectionable Scott Speed. Keep it up, lads, and we'll put our not inconsiderable weight behind you.

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WILLIAMS

The FW18 with Damon Hill at the wheel, Canada 1996. Anyone fancy a smoke?

A phenomenally successful F1 team which won nine constructors' titles in 20 years (it took Ferrari 50 years to do the same) but which usually dispenses with the services of the drivers who win the title for them: Alan Jones, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost and Damon Hill all took championships and then left the team at the end of the year, for one reason or another.

The team hit a purple patch in the 1990s, when a combination of Adrian Newey's ground-breaking designs, some jolly clever electronics and a handful of half-decent drivers resulted in repeated title wins. The 1992 and 1993 Williams are probably the most technologically advanced Formula One cars to date and you could almost say that they drove themselves, without wishing to devalue the titles that Mansell and Prost won with them, of course.

This period also produced the iconic blue and white Rothmans livery, which looked great but which was probably responsible for shifting truckloads of their cigarettes. The team did attempt to make amends later, however, by running cars plastered with stickers for Niquitin and thereby promoting something to help you give up what they'd been urging you to become addicted to a few years previously.

For the 2004 season, the Williams challenger sported a highly unusual "walrus nose", which did nothing for the car's performance but which did at least mean that Ralf Schumacher was no longer the ugliest thing in the paddock. The innovative nose proved uncompetitive and was replaced by something more conventional in the second half of the year. Ralf also proved uncompetitive and was replaced by someone more talented at the end of the year.

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DRIVERS' CHAMPIONSHIP (POINTS)

		TOTAL POINTS	AUS	BAH	CHN	AZE	SPN	MON	CAN	FRA	AUT	GB	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	SGP	RUS	JPN	MEX	USA	BRA	ABU
1	Lewis Hamilton HAMILTON, LEWIS Throughout the difficult 2007 season, McLaren insisted that Lewis was always given exactly the same equipment as his team-mate Fernando Alonso. Born in the picturesque English hamlet of Stevenage in 1985, Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton was named after the American sprinter Carl Lewis and the legendary British easy listening DJ David Hamilton. He has since moved to Switzerland and attempted to distance himself from association with David Hamilton. Hamilton famously approached McLaren boss Ron Dennis at the Autosport Awards in 1995 and told him that he wanted to race for him one day. Dennis told the ten-year-old Hamilton to call him in a few years and thus was a mutually rewarding relationship forged. Some of the more disreputable members of the dotdotdotcomma staff have since adopted a similar strategy in approaching girls in clubs, although they have yet to demonstrate a level of success anything like Hamilton managed. On his way to F1, Hamilton picked up titles in karting, Formula Renault UK, the F3 Euroseries and GP2, after which he picked up Nicole Scherzinger, who was apparently already a well-known singer with girl band Pussycat Dolls, but who first came to the attention of the dotdotdotcomma editorial team for wearing a really smashing dress during the title-deciding race at Brazil in 2008 and then jumping about in it quite a lot. Hamilton's time in F1 has been far from dull and he has shown almost as much ill-conceived misjudgement as he has jaw-dropping ability. The audacious overtaking moves and lightning pace have been accompanied by pit-lane crashes and overly optimistic first-lap lunges, as well as more than his fair share of FIA wrist-slaps. The decision to strip him of his win at Spa in 2008, seemingly for being too good at overtaking Kimi Raikkonen, still baffles those of us who don't wear Ferrari T-shirts. TIGRA 16v: The tooltip with lowered suspension and a racing windscreen wiper	413	2^[1]18^[1]	125	125	218	1^[2]26^[2]	1^[1]25^[1]	125	1^[1]25^[1]	510	1^[2]26^[2]	9^[1]2^[1]	125	218	3^[2]16^[2]	412	1^[2]26^[2]	3^[2]16^[2]	125	218	76	1^[1]^[2]26^[1]^[2]
2	Valtteri Bottas	326	1^[2]26^[2]	218	2^[1]18^[1]	1^[1]25^[1]	2^[1]18^[1]	315	4^[2]13^[2]	218	315	2^[1]18^[1]	dnf-	84	315	218	510	218	125	315	1^[1]25^[1]	dnf^[2]-^[2]	412
3	Max Verstappen	278	315	412	412	412	315	412	510	412	1^[2]26^[2]	510	1^[2]26^[2]	2^[1]^[2]19^[1]^[2]	dnf-	84	315	412	dnf-	68	315	1^[1]25^[1]	218
4	Charles Leclerc	264	510	3^[1]^[2]16^[1]^[2]	510	5^[2]11^[2]	510	dnf-	315	315	2^[1]18^[1]	315	dnf-	412	1^[1]25^[1]	1^[1]25^[1]	2^[1]18^[1]	3^[1]15^[1]	68	4^[1]^[2]13^[1]^[2]	4^[2]13^[2]	dnf-	315
5	Sebastian Vettel VETTEL, SEBASTIAN Sebastian draws attention to the plight of 'slanty-finger syndrome' sufferers whenever he gets the opportunity. Sebastian Vettel holds pretty much all the "youngest ever" F1 records going and several that hadn't even been thought of before he turned up in his pushchair as Sauber's Friday driver in 2006. At the time of his F1 race debut in 2007, he hadn't actually won a title since taking the 2004 German Formula BMW Championship - not exactly a blue riband championship - and he had twice failed to win the F3 Euroseries, being pipped to the title at his second attempt by team-mate Paul di Resta, a man almost as dull out of the cockpit as he is scintillating in it. Vettel started as he meant to go on, however, setting a record just six seconds into his F1 career by speeding in the pit lane as soon as he left the garage and chalking up comfortably the shortest time ever between making your debut as an F1 racing driver and incurring a penalty. He's been setting records on a seemingly daily basis ever since and marks each one by shouting, "That's what I'm talking about!", although he usually hasn't ever mentioned it before. Early in his F1 career he was often referred to as "the new Schumacher" because he (a) comes from Germany, and (2) began racing at the Kerpen karting track, although he has conspicuously failed to live up to the nickname by not repeatedly driving his rivals off the track, parking his car in the middle of the track during qualifying in Monaco or being disqualified from a whole season for trying to kill Jacques Villeneuve, however justified that may have seemed at the time. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Vettel continually changes his helmet design, which should make it more difficult to identify him during a race, although oddly enough it has probably made it easier: if there's a driver whose helmet you don't recognise, the chances are Sebastian Vettel is wearing it and if you can't be bothered to learn helmet designs, you can recognise Vettel because he'll be the bloke leading the race. A life-long sufferer of slanty-finger syndrome (digitalis diagonalis), Sebastian is unable to point his index fingers straight up. His own condition is the "30-degree" strain, for which there is currently no cure; we can only hope that he simply stops qualifying in pole position and winning races, so that he will no longer be forced to display his disability in public and we can all stop laughing at him when he does. TIGRA 16v: The tooltip with lowered suspension and a racing windscreen wiper	240	412	510	315	315	412	218	2^[1]18^[1]	5^[2]11^[2]	412	16-	218	315	4^[2]13^[2]	13-	125	dnf-	2^[1]18^[1]	218	dnf-	dnf-	510
6	Carlos Sainz Jr	96	dnf-	dnf-	14-	76	84	68	11-	68	84	68	510	510	dnf-	dnf-	12-	68	510	13-	84	315	101
7	Pierre Gasly	95	11-	84	6^[2]9^[2]	dnf-	68	5^[2]11^[2]	84	101	76	412	dnf-	68	92	11-	84	14-	76	92	dnf-	218	18-
8	Alexander Albon	92	14-	92	101	11-	11-	84	dnf-	15-	15-	12-	68	101	510	68	68	510	412	510	510	14-	68
9	Daniel Ricciardo	54	dnf-	dnf-	76	dnf-	12-	92	68	11-	12-	76	dnf-	14-	14-	412	14-	dnf-	19-	84	68	68	11-
10	Sergio Perez	52	13-	101	84	68	15-	12-	12-	12-	11-	17-	dnf-	11-	68	76	dnf-	76	84	76	101	92	76
11	Lando Norris	49	12-	68	dnf-	84	dnf-	11-	dnf-	92	68	11-	dnf-	92	dnf-	101	76	84	11-	dnf-	76	84	84
12	Kimi Raikkonen RAIKKONEN, KIMI Oi, Kimi, fancy a pint? Kimi Raikkonen clearly loves his racing but can just as clearly take or leave everything that goes with it. Often electrifying behind the wheel, he sounds so wretchedly bored by the whole affair when he's interviewed that you're left wondering exactly why he carries on. He is, to borrow Martin Brundle's memorable phrase, extremely low-voltage. Raikkonen entered F1 with Sauber in 2001, despite only having competed in 23 car races in his life. He'd won 13 of them but the FIA still needed convincing that he wasn't going to be a danger to himself and others before they issued his superlicence. They needn't have worried: Kimi scored a point in his debut race, having reportedly been asleep only half an hour before the start. When Mika Hakkinen retired from the sport, Kimi was snapped up by McLaren, where they need to have a Finnish driver to prevent the fall of the Tower of London or something, so Raikkonen found himself paired with David Coulthard, during a season that once again turned out not to be the Scot's year. Several seasons of poor reliability led Kimi to sign for Ferrari from 2007 and it turned out to be a good choice, since he won the title in his first season with the team, overcoming a seemingly insurmountable 17-point deficit to rookie Lewis Hamilton in the final two races. It has, however, been Kimi's extra-curricular activities that have generated the most column inches. He has had contretemps with photographers, out-stripped lap-dancers, won snowmobile races under the pseudonym "James Hunt", been thrown out of nightclubs with his inflatable dolphin, raced powerboats dressed as a gorilla and and married a model. After an electrical fire led to his retirement from second place in Monte Carlo in 2006, the TV cameras followed Kimi as he stomped through the streets, helmet still on, and straight onto a yacht (presumably his own) floating in the harbour. It wouldn't be much of a stretch to imagine him subsequently drinking it dry. The yacht, that is, not the harbour. TIGRA 16v: The tooltip with lowered suspension and a racing windscreen wiper	43	84	76	92	101	14-	17-	15-	76	92	84	12-	76	16-	15-	dnf-	13-	12-	dnf-	11-	412	13-
13	Daniil Kvyat^[3]	37	101	12-	dnf-	dnf-	92	76	101	14-	17-	92	315	15-	76	dnf-	15-	12-	101	11-	12-	101	92
14	Nico Hulkenberg^[3]	37	76	dnf-	dnf-	14-	13-	13-	76	84	13-	101	dnf-	12-	84	510	92	101	20-	101	92	15-	12-
15	Lance Stroll	21	92	14-	12-	92	dnf-	16-	92	13-	14-	13-	412	17-	101	12-	13-	11-	92	12-	13-	dnf-	dnf-
16	Kevin Magnussen	20	68	13-	13-	13-	76	14-	17-	17-	19-	dnf-	84	13-	12-	dnf-	17^[2]-^[2]	92	15-	15-	dnf-	11-	14-
17	Antonio Giovinazzi	14	15-	11-	15-	12-	16-	19-	13-	16-	101	dnf-	13-	18-	dnf-	92	101	15-	14-	14-	14-	510	16-
18	Romain Grosjean	8	dnf-	dnf-	11-	dnf-	101	101	14-	dnf-	16-	dnf-	76	dnf-	13-	16-	11-	dnf-	13-	17-	15-	13-	15-
19	Robert Kubica KUBICA, ROBERT Robert Kubica, Canada 2007: he's in there somewhere. The first Polish F1 racing driver, Robert Kubica also possesses the most remarkable nose seen in the sport since the days of Alain Prost. Even the 2004 Williams "walrus nose" didn't make as many people jump when they saw it for the first time. Pushing his startling proboscis to one side for a moment (no mean feat in itself), Kubica has quickly come to be recognised as one of the very finest talents around. His exemplary 2008 season was seen by many as more deserving of a title than those of the McLaren and Ferrari drivers, who actually stood a chance of winning it. His maiden victory in Canada during the 2008 season was scored at the track where a year previously he had crashed spectacularly, clipping Jarno Trulli's Toyota and becoming airborne before striking a crash barrier at over 185mph. The accident subjected Kubica momentarily to 75G but a trip to hospital revealed nothing more than light concussion and a sprained ankle. Either safety had come a long way in F1 or they build them tough in Krakow. TIGRA 16v: The tooltip with lowered suspension and a racing windscreen wiper	1	17-	16-	17-	16-	18-	18-	18-	18-	20-	15-	101	19-	17-	17-	16-	dnf-	17-	18-	dnf-	16-	19-
20	George Russell	0	16-	15-	16-	15-	17-	15-	16-	19-	18-	14-	11-	16-	15-	14-	dnf-	dnf-	16-	16-	17-	12-	17-

CONSTRUCTORS' CHAMPIONSHIP (POINTS)

		TOTAL POINTS	AUS	BAH	CHN	AZE	SPN	MON	CAN	FRA	AUT	GB	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	SGP	RUS	JPN	MEX	USA	BRA	ABU
1	Mercedes GP MERCEDES GP An artist's impression of exactly how far into the background a grey-coloured F1 car could fade. Mercedes GP was born when Brawn GP's amazingly successful combined inaugural and valedictory year in F1 prompted the car manufacturers' großen Käse to buy a controlling interest in the team at the end of 2009. The takeover was not intended to cause any undue instability, however; the new team would continue to be based in Brackley, less than 30 miles from Mercedes's F1 engine factory in Brixworth, giving the whole operation a distinctly German flavour. The team pulled off a bit of a coup - or scored a massive own goal, depending on where your loyalties lie - by signing Michael Schumacher on a three-year contract, which sees the seven-time champion reinstated as the sport's undisputed number-one villain and, dare we say, wanker. Sponsorship for 2010 comes from Malaysian oil company Petronas, whose turqoise logo should clash nicely with the dreary grey livery traditionally favoured by Mercedes. TIGRA 16v: The tooltip with lowered suspension and a racing windscreen wiper	739	1,2^[1]^[2]44^[1]^[2]	1,243	1,2^[1]43^[1]	1,2^[1]43^[1]	1,2^[1]^[2]44^[1]^[2]	1,3^[1]40^[1]	1,4^[2]38^[2]	1,2^[1]43^[1]	3,525	1,2^[1]^[2]44^[1]^[2]	9,dnf^[1]2^[1]	1,829	2,333	2,3^[2]34^[2]	4,522	1,2^[2]44^[2]	1,3^[2]41^[2]	1,340	1,2^[1]43^[1]	7,dnf^[2]6^[2]	1,4^[1]^[2]38^[1]^[2]
2	Ferrari FERRARI Gilles Villeneuve as nature intended, back when Ferrari were crap but almost lovable. No team polarises fans quite like Ferrari: some believe that they can do no wrong, despite a vast and growing body of evidence to the contrary; other, sounder minds put them in roughly the same category as Lucius Malfoy, Jabba the Hutt and Sandi Toksvig. Until fairly recently, the team had a reputation for passionate disorganisation, which occasionally somehow produced a decent car, and there was no end of very good drivers queuing up to put their mark on a contract for the scuderia, only to be disappointed by the tractor they were given to race. The Brawn/Todt/Schumacher/Byrne axis changed all that. Suddenly the cars were quick, driveable and bullet-proof, while behind the scenes this highly political team fostered its "special relationship" with the FIA, leading to all manner of dubious rule interpretations in favour of the red cars. That the team inspires such extreme reactions is partly a product of its own success (many people love to hate the ultra-successful - just ask Man Utd, Bill Gates or Patrick Kielty) but also because of the strutting arrogance and faux innocence with which it has been achieved. The lesson, which seems to be repeatedly lost on Ferrari, is to win, lose and get caught breaking the rules with equal good grace. Some of our readers doubtless question the extent of dotdotdotcomma's continued antipathy towards the scuderia but when repeatedly faced with the team's insufferable arrogance in victory, sanctimonious posturing at perceived wrongs and instinctive refusal to accept blame, it's the only sane response. There. We got all the way through that without once calling them a bunch of cheating c*nts. TIGRA 16v: The tooltip with lowered suspension and a racing windscreen wiper	504	4,522	3,5^[1]^[2]26^[1]^[2]	3,525	3,5^[2]26^[2]	4,522	2,dnf18	2,3^[1]33^[1]	3,5^[2]26^[2]	2,4^[1]30^[1]	3,1615	2,dnf18	3,427	1,4^[1]^[2]38^[1]^[2]	1,13^[1]25^[1]	1,2^[1]43^[1]	3,dnf^[1]15^[1]	2,6^[1]26^[1]	2,4^[1]^[2]31^[1]^[2]	4,dnf^[2]13^[2]	dnf,dnf-	3,525
3	Red Bull Racing RED BULL Mark Webber in the car that started the anvil wing craze, Australia 2008. Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz, having spent years sponsoring anything with wheels and an engine, eventually decided to use a small proportion of the profits from his still surprisingly lucrative carbonated drinks empire to buy not one but two Formula One teams: Red Bull and Toro Rosso. Red Bull has done its best to assume the "most fun team in F1" mantle formerly worn by Jordan and indulges in various high jinks to make the point: the pit crew up dressed as Star Wars characters to promote one of the dreadful prequels, David Coulthard stopped shaving every day and Christian Horner jumped into a swimming pool wearing nothing but a Superman cape, which did at least have the effect of stopping him saying "Y'know" for a couple of minutes. TIGRA 16v: The tooltip with lowered suspension and a racing windscreen wiper	417	3,1115	4,816	4,6^[2]21^[2]	4,dnf12	3,623	4,5^[2]23^[2]	5,814	4,1013	1,7^[2]32^[2]	4,522	1,dnf^[2]26^[2]	2,6^[1]^[2]27^[1]^[2]	5,dnf10	6,812	3,623	4,522	4,dnf12	5,618	3,525	1,14^[1]25^[1]	2,626
4	McLaren MCLAREN Bruce McLaren takes his team's first Grand Prix victory, Belgium 1968. Founded by the Kiwi Bruce McLaren in 1963, Bruce McLaren Motor Racing merged in 1981 with the Project 4 team, which was being run by the barn owl Ron Dennis. The team is now part of McLaren Racing, a member of the McLaren Group, under the umbrella of McLaren Holdings, a subsidiary of McLaren PLC, which is wholly owned by McLaren (World Domination) Ltd. Bruce McLaren is currently the only driver to have won a Formula One world championship race in a car bearing his own name as a constructor, although the dotdotdotcomma-sponsored driver Panasonic Toyota, currently racing a borrowed Caterham with limited success, is optimistic of one day becoming the second. The team has rapidly become one of the most successful in F1 history and is widely regarded as technologically top-notch, if sometimes a little fragile operationally. They are constantly trying to persuade everyone that they may be stiff and corporate but they still know how to have a good time. It's not terribly convincing. They're far from unemotional, however, and Ron Dennis can often be glimpsed furtively wiping away a tear or two of joy. In fact, when one of his favoured drivers has won against seemingly insuperable odds during a troubled time for the team, it can sometimes be hard to hear the national anthems over the sound of Ron's blubbing. Other than, we've just realised, Jack Brabham. Who also won the world championship. Arse. Rest assured, our research team will be hung, drawn and quartered. Or should that be "hanged"? TIGRA 16v: The tooltip with lowered suspension and a racing windscreen wiper	145	12,dnf-	6,dnf8	14,dnf-	7,810	8,dnf4	6,118	11,dnf-	6,910	6,812	6,118	5,dnf10	5,912	dnf,dnf-	10,dnf1	7,126	6,812	5,1110	13,dnf-	7,810	3,819	8,105
5	Renault RENAULT Jean-Pierre Jabouille in the RS01, the first turbo-charged F1 car. The history of Renault in F1 reads like a company with an addiction it's trying to kick. They entered the sport as a constructor in 1977, winning a respectable number of races but no championships, then spent one season (1986) as an engine supplier, before pulling out completely at the end of the year. After going cold turkey for a couple of years, they rejoined the sport as an engine supplier in 1989, winnning five drivers' and six constructors' titles, before quitting again in 1997. By 2000 the itch had to be scratched again, so they bought the Benetton team, although they didn't rebrand it as Renault until the 2002 season. They have introduced a number of innovations to the sport, including turbo-charged engines (since banned), V10 engines (since banned) and mass-damper systems (since banned). The one thing they seem to have pioneered that hasn't been outlawed is something that actually makes the cars slower: live-feed in-car cameras. The team persists in building their chassis in Oxfordshire and their engines several hundred miles away, somewhere in france. There is undoubtedly a very good reason for this, although your chronicler admits that any sort of logical explanation eludes him at the moment. TIGRA 16v: The tooltip with lowered suspension and a racing windscreen wiper	91	7,dnf6	dnf,dnf-	7,dnf6	14,dnf-	12,13-	9,132	6,714	8,114	12,13-	7,107	dnf,dnf-	12,14-	8,144	4,522	9,142	10,dnf1	19,20-	8,105	6,910	6,158	11,12-
6	Scuderia Toro Rosso TORO ROSSO Sebastian Vettel takes a frankly astonishing first win for both himself and his team at Monza in 2008. Forged from the remnants of Minardi, Toro Rosso is Red Bull's junior F1 team. The arrangement lets Red Bull (a) try out unproven young drivers and (2) take cocky french multiple Champ Car champions down a peg or two. The team benefits from an unspecified amount of help from its senior team but is still free to plough its own furrow. In 2007, for instance, it used Ferrari engines rather than the Renault power units favoured by Red Bull, which proved, if nothing else, that the Ferrari team must have had one hell of a chassis. Toro Rosso has yet to inspire the same level of support enjoyed by Minardi, although it was on the right lines when a senior manager occasioned a physical assault upon the wholly objectionable Scott Speed. Keep it up, lads, and we'll put our not inconsiderable weight behind you. TIGRA 16v: The tooltip with lowered suspension and a racing windscreen wiper	85	10,141	9,122	10,dnf1	11,dnf-	9,112	7,810	10,dnf1	14,15-	15,17-	9,122	3,623	10,151	7,98	11,dnf-	8,154	12,14-	7,107	9,112	12,dnf-	2,1019	9,182
7	Racing Point	73	9,132	10,141	8,124	6,910	15,dnf-	12,16-	9,122	12,13-	11,14-	13,17-	4,dnf12	11,17-	6,109	7,126	13,dnf-	7,116	8,96	7,126	10,131	9,dnf2	7,dnf6
8	Alfa Romeo	57	8,154	7,116	9,152	10,121	14,16-	17,19-	13,15-	7,166	9,103	8,dnf4	12,13-	7,186	16,dnf-	9,152	10,dnf1	13,15-	12,14-	14,dnf-	11,14-	4,522	13,16-
9	Haas F1	28	6,dnf8	13,dnf-	11,13-	13,dnf-	7,107	10,141	14,17-	17,dnf-	16,19-	dnf,dnf-	7,810	13,dnf-	12,13-	16,dnf-	11,17^[2]-^[2]	9,dnf2	13,15-	15,17-	15,dnf-	11,13-	14,15-
10	Williams WILLIAMS The FW18 with Damon Hill at the wheel, Canada 1996. Anyone fancy a smoke? A phenomenally successful F1 team which won nine constructors' titles in 20 years (it took Ferrari 50 years to do the same) but which usually dispenses with the services of the drivers who win the title for them: Alan Jones, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost and Damon Hill all took championships and then left the team at the end of the year, for one reason or another. The team hit a purple patch in the 1990s, when a combination of Adrian Newey's ground-breaking designs, some jolly clever electronics and a handful of half-decent drivers resulted in repeated title wins. The 1992 and 1993 Williams are probably the most technologically advanced Formula One cars to date and you could almost say that they drove themselves, without wishing to devalue the titles that Mansell and Prost won with them, of course. This period also produced the iconic blue and white Rothmans livery, which looked great but which was probably responsible for shifting truckloads of their cigarettes. The team did attempt to make amends later, however, by running cars plastered with stickers for Niquitin and thereby promoting something to help you give up what they'd been urging you to become addicted to a few years previously. For the 2004 season, the Williams challenger sported a highly unusual "walrus nose", which did nothing for the car's performance but which did at least mean that Ralf Schumacher was no longer the ugliest thing in the paddock. The innovative nose proved uncompetitive and was replaced by something more conventional in the second half of the year. Ralf also proved uncompetitive and was replaced by someone more talented at the end of the year. TIGRA 16v: The tooltip with lowered suspension and a racing windscreen wiper	1	16,17-	15,16-	16,17-	15,16-	17,18-	15,18-	16,18-	18,19-	18,20-	14,15-	10,111	16,19-	15,17-	14,17-	16,dnf-	dnf,dnf-	16,17-	16,18-	17,dnf-	12,16-	17,19-

^[1] pole position [scores no additional points]
^[2] fastest lap [scores an additional 1 point]
^[3] A points tie in the table means that the championship positions are based on the greater or greatest number of wins, second places, third places, etc. scored by the competing drivers or teams.
The championship-winning driver and team are highlighted, starting from the race at which each championship was won.