Radical changes in results between 2010 and 2011.

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F1 in 2010, towards the middle of the season:

Red bull has a dominant car from the beginning of the season. The car keeps breaking down, especially Vettel’s car, so they don’t run away in the scoreboard. Webber appears slower than Vettel, but leads much of the season by a small margin.

McLaren has clearly the second best car. In occasion they can dice it with Red Bull, but mostly they appear to be slightly slower. Hamilton dominates Button in most normal races, but Button tends to get it right in tricky and changing conditions, and constantly adds points to his tally so in the WDC there is little between them.

Ferrari seems to be clearly behind of the leading pair. Alonso overperforms Massa in almost all races. By taking the points when there is a chance, he stays in touch with the leading 4 drivers in the WDC, but barely. He mysteriously talks of a comeback to speed after Silverstone, but nobody believes him. Massa often has bizarre problems and inexplicably slow races, and is just leading the second group of drivers in the WDC.

Mercedes attracts the most posts in F1T and there is constant talk of them moving to the front. Instead, they fight to get in Q3 and can only be a distant fourth in the constructors championship. Rosberg is almost always a bit faster than Schumacher.

Renault starts the season as the fifth team, and constantly threatens with taking over 4th from Mercedes, but they never really get there.

Sauber is best of the rest. Its drivers (mostly Kobayashi) make it to Q3 every now and then and run different race strategies to everybody else. Only one driver brings the points home.

Force India, Toro Rosso and Williams have fun in Q2 and go nowhere, really.

Lotus is comfortably the fastest of the new teams and occupies 10th in the constructors all year along.

Virgin is faster than HRT, but manages to be 12th in the constructor’s championship.

HRT finishes building its cars in the paddock of the first race. They are the slowest in pace, but manage to finish almost every race and take up in 11th in the constructor’s championship by finishing (last) in high attrition races.


F1 in 2011, towards the middle of the season:

Red bull has a dominant car from the beginning of the season. The car does not break down, Vettel runs away in the scoreboard. Webber appears slower than Vettel, but leads the other drivers by a small margin.

... From there on, scarily little has changed!