Ferrari F10

Ferrari F10

Felipe Massa in the Ferrari F10 at the 2010 Bahrain Grand Prix
Constructor:	Scuderia Ferrari
Designer:	Aldo Costa (Technical Director) Nikolas Tombazis (Chief Designer)
Predecessor:	F60
Successor:	150 ° Italia
Technical specifications
Engine:	Ferrari type 056
Weight:	620 kg
statistics
Driver:	7. Felipe Massa 8. Fernando Alonso
Team:	Scuderia Ferrari
First start:	2010 Bahrain Grand Prix
Starts Victories Poles SR 19th 5 2 5
World Cup points:	396
Podiums:	15th
Leadership laps:	168 over 860.211 km

The Ferrari F10 was the 43rd Formula 1 racing car of the Scuderia Ferrari . The team contested the 2010 Formula 1 World Championship with him .

Presentation and name

Ferrari F10 steering wheel

The Ferrari F10 was unveiled to the public on January 28, 2010. On the same day, Ferrari factory driver Felipe Massa drove the first kilometers on the in-house race track in Fiorano . Due to bad weather, the first test drives had to be postponed until the next day, when Massa was again behind the wheel.

The type designation is made up of an F for Ferrari and the number 10 for 2010.

Development and technology

The F10 was designed by Nikolas Tombazis , who developed the car under the technical direction of Aldo Costa and based on the technical regulations that have existed since 2009. The most important change to the F60 from the previous year was the waiver of the KERS . The engine was again the Ferrari type 056 2.4 liter V8 unit . The gearbox has become narrower than its predecessor. Including the driver, supplies and water, the car weighs 620 kg.

Season course

After extensive test drives in February 2010, the new works driver Fernando Alonso won the first world championship run of the season in Bahrain with the F10 . Felipe Massa secured a one-two for Scuderia with second place. After the races in Australia , Malaysia and China , the Scuderia was in second place in the constructors' championship with the F10.

In Australia, Alonso was involved in a collision at the start and was fourth behind team-mate Massa. In Malaysia, Alonso retired with engine failure and Massa finished seventh. In the rain race in China, Alonso was fourth again after a drive-through penalty for jump starts, while Felipe Massa was ninth.

After the sixth race of the season, the Monaco Grand Prix , Alonso placed third in the championship standings, three points behind the leader, Mark Webber . Felipe Massa was fifth, 17 points behind. After the ninth round of the season, the European Grand Prix , Scuderia was in third place with the F10 in the constructors' championship.

The Scuderia celebrated the second win of the season with the F10 at the German Grand Prix at the Hockenheimring, where Fernando Alonso won ahead of Felipe Massa. Alonso scored three more victories in the drivers' championship. He won the Ferrari Home Grand Prix in Italy , the Singapore Grand Prix and the first ever Korean Grand Prix . At the end of the season he finished second in the drivers' world championship with the F10. Felipe Massa was sixth overall and the Scuderia reached third place overall in the Constructors' Cup.

Results

driver	No.	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	Points	rank
Formula 1 season 2010																					396	3.
F. Massa	7th	2	3	7th	9	6th	4th	7th	15th	11	15th	2	4th	4th	3	8th	DNF	3	15th	10
F. Alonso	8th	1	4th	13 *	4th	2	6th	8th	3	8th	14th	1	2	DNF	1	1	3	1	3	7th

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Web links

Commons : Ferrari F10  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Motorsport-Total.com: Technical data

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Schmidt: Formula 1: Technical analysis of the Ferrari F10. January 28, 2010, accessed May 25, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Tobias Grüner: New Ferrari F10 presented in Maranello. January 28, 2010, accessed May 25, 2020 .