2010 half-term F1 report: Part I

With the annual mid-summer break now upon us, what better a time to run the rule over the F1 2010 World Championship campaign thus far, with a school report-style rundown of the ‘hot-or-not’ of the season to-date. If you don’t agree – or even if you do – feel free to post your own comments by following the link at the bottom of the story… Part II will be posted on Friday. 1. Mark Webber – Red Bull Racing (161 points): A Leading the world championship for the second time as F1 headed into its summer break, Webber is enjoying without doubt the best season of his top flight career. The ‘winningest’ driver of the campaign thus far, the Australian would potentially have five triumphs to his name now rather than four had he not been swiped out by team-mate Sebastian Vettel in Turkey. Occasionally prone to speaking his mind a little too publicly – witness the spectacular Silverstone fall-out – the 33-year-old is nonetheless arguably the least susceptible to errors under pressure as the title chase speeds towards the home straight. 2. Lewis Hamilton – McLaren-Mercedes (157 points): A Hamilton has at times performed minor miracles in F1 2010, with a car that has never really been the pace-setter. The 25-year-old’s back-to-back victories in Istanbul and Montreal that vaulted him to the top of the title standings were as fine as any that have been seen all year, but there remain the odd lapses – his burn-outs in Australia and overly-aggressive battle with Vitaly Petrov in Malaysia – that remind you that he is still a very young man, and one who has been cloistered for much of his adult life by the team with which he has to all intents and purposes grown up. That aside, exemplary. 3. Sebastian Vettel – Red Bull Racing (151 points): A- Vettel could – and indeed arguably should – be well on his way to F1 2010 title glory by now, but for one reason or another obstacles keep appearing to trip the young German up, whether of his own making or outside of his control. A run of poor reliability early on in the campaign undoubtedly harmed his challenge, whilst his Turkish impetuosity – and somewhat childish finger-wagging response to it once he had extricated himself from his car – betrayed an immaturity and questionable temperament hitherto unseen. His post-Silverstone…

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