2010 Formula One Season Begins

The 2009 Formula One World Champion, Jenson Button is hard at work preparing for the 2010 Formula One season. He knows that there will only be one thing harder than winning his first Formula One title and that will be to repeat in 2010. He’s not the only hungry driver on the track and his hunger might have lessened with his first championship. After all a let down is only human, so it will be interesting to see how much fire he has for the fight ahead of him in 2010.

Bruno Senna will be thrilling the girls next season

Lewis Hamilton knows how hard it’s to repeat and you can bet that he’s hungry to get back to the top, but are these two champions as hungry as a racer who hasn’t won his first title. I would say no, just because of the way such things work. Of course there can be exceptions to such things and it will be fun to watch and see what happens in 2010.

Sebastian Vettel will be one of the really hungry and talented racers on the track next year. He hasn’t tasted a championship, yet, and I expect him to be hungrier than Hamilton or Button. He showed a lot of skill and grit during the 2009 Formula One season and I expect him to have learned from his mistakes and the races he took part in. Can Vettel win the title? He has the talent, but it takes more than talent to win a Formula One title. Everything has to come together at the right time, the team, the car, the tracks, the weather and the driver, but expect him and his team to lay their life down trying.

There will be a new racer, with an old racing name, on the Formula One circuit next year driving for the new Spanish team Campos Meta, as Bruno Senna will make his debut behind a Formula One car. This nephew of three-time Formula One World Champion, Aryton Senna, is a 26-year old racer who grew up racing karts and hearing stories about his uncle, who was tragically killed in a accident in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix.

After the death of his uncle and his father in a motorcycle accident, Senna decided to go away from racing and concentrated on other parts of life, before deciding a few years ago that racing was in his blood and returning to the industry. He’ll be on the track next year, but will the ghost of his famous uncle be with him on the track to help to guide him? We never really know but it’s a nice thing to wish for and think about.

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