Emirates Brawn Mercedes
Brawn BGP 002 – Mercedes FO108X (Mercedes rumourd in (partly) take-over)
Team Principal: Ross Brawn ; Technical Director: Ross Brawn (?)
1. Jenson Button (on a multi-year deal with options?)
2. Rubens Barrichello (one more season?)
Nico Rosberg (likely dependent on Mercedes deal)
Kimi Räikkönen (rumoured if the Alonso-Ferrari deal comes to fruition, and Rosberg goes to McLaren)
Bruno Senna (will he get his chance? Might be unlikely if Brawn lift the WDC/WCC)

Red Bull Racing
Red Bull RB6 – Renault RS27 (currently) / Mercedes FO108X (likely due to Mercedes' dismissal of a Williams deal)
Team Principal: Christian Horner; Technical Director: Adrian Newey
3. Sebastian Vettel (on a multi-year deal until '11, with an option for '12)
4. Mark Webber (re-signed for ‘10)

Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro (Santander title sponsor?)
Ferrari F2010 – Ferrari 056
Team Principal: Stefano Domenicali ; Technical Director: Aldo Costa
5. Felipe Massa (contracted until ‘10)
Giancarlo Fisichella (signed testing deal; may be recruted for race team if Massa's not fit)
6. Kimi Räikkönen (contracted until ‘10)
Fernando Alonso (rumoured since late '07)

Vodafone McLaren Mercedes
McLaren MP4-25 – Mercedes FO108X
Team Principal: Martin Whitmarsh ; Technical Director: Paddy Lowe, Neil Oatley
7. Lewis Hamilton (contracted until '12)
8. Heikki Kovalainen ('10 option not yet taken up)
Nico Rosberg (rumoured for McLaren since 2008)
Gary Paffet (long-time McLaren test driver)
Kimi Räikkönen (rumoured if the Alonso-Ferrari deal comes to fruition, and Rosberg goes to Brawn)

Panasonic Toyota Racing
Toyota TF110 – Toyota RVX-10
Team Principal: Tadashi Yamashina ; Technical Director: Pascal Vasselon
9. Timo Glock (re-signed for 2009; on a multi-year deal with (yearly?) options; unclear if '10 option has been taken up)
10. Jarno Trulli (a new deal is unlikely, according to team bosses)
Kazuki Nakajima (allegedly has a long-term Toyota deal, but may not have the ultimate skill to make in in the big time)
Kamui Kobayashi (current test driver)
Kimi Räikkönen (rumoured, though unlikely)

AT&T Williams
Williams FW32 – Renault RS27 (preferred option for the team, dependent on Red Bull choice, and whether Kubica is taken up by Renault) / Cosworth CA2010 (under review, too) / Toyota RVX-10 (team asked to get out of 2010 contract) / Mercedes FO108X (approached, but not possible, say Mercedes)
Team Principal: Frank Williams ; Technical Director: Sam Michael, Patrick Head
11. Robert Kubica (Williams said they’d like an experienced driver in ‘10; Renault engine deal allegedly dependent on Williams not signing Kubica)
Rubens Barrichello (Williams said they’d like an experienced driver in ‘10)
12. Nico Hülkenberg (test driver and 2009 GP2 champion; most likely)
Adam Carroll (GP2 race winner and A1GP champion, has been approached by 2 teams for ‘10)
Kazuki Nakajima (current driver, likely dependent on Toyota power)

Renault F1 Team (team's future in doubt due to Singapore 2008 cheat; Briatore and Symonds fired/quit, David Richards said to be in the picture as team boss)
Renault R30 – Renault R27
Team Principal: David Richards (rumoured) ; Technical Director: unknown
14. Fernando Alonso (signed a '09-'10 deal, but may have a get-out clause, should he join Ferrari)
Robert Kubica (once in Renault’s Driver Development Program; may jump ship from BMW)
15. Romain Grosjean (likely)
Lucas Di Grassi (long time Renault development and test driver; admired by David Richards)

Scuderia Toro Rosso
Toro Roso STR5 – Ferrari 056 (Ferrari contract allegedly runs until ‘10) / Renault R27 (if Red Bull-Mercedes comes to fruition)
Team Principal: Franz Tost
Technical Director: Giorgio Ascanelli
16. Sébastien Buemi (hard to see him dropped after some solid drives)
17. Jaime Alguersuari, jr. (replaced Bourdais mid-season '09, likely to stay on)
Brendon Hartley (Red Bull junior driver and tester)
Neel Jani (finally he gets his chance, but 2 Swiss drivers at STR?)

Force India F1 Team (Aston Martin Racing; in Prodrive take-over)
Force India VJM03 (Aston Martin DBF1-10) – Mercedes FO108X
Team Principal: Vijay Mallya ; Technical Director: James Key
18. Adrian Sutil (another year; where would he go otherwise?)
19. Vitantonio Liuzzi (allegedly has '10-'11 deal)
Karun Chandhok (after another GP2 season, he gets the nod from Mallya; will test McLaren simulator)
Neel Jani (will test McLaren simulator)

Telefónica Campos Meta Team
Campos CM10 – Cosworth CA2010 (Dallara-designed and -built car)
Team Principal: Adrián Campos ; Technical Director: Daniel Audetto
20. Pedro de la Rosa (experienced test driver; excellent choice to develop the new car)
Roldán Rodríguez (Spanish GP2 driver)
Javier Villa (Spanish GP2 driver)
21. Vitaly Petrov (although Russian, he drove for Campos/Barwa in GP2 successfully, and brings sponsorship, too)
Giorgio Pantano (although Italian, he was GP2 champion for Campos in ‘08)
Adrián Vallés (Spanish WSR driver, drove for Campos in GP2 in ‘06)
Pastor Maldonado (talented Venezuelan, at least speaks Spanish)

Virgin Manor F1 Team (likely renamed Virgin F1 Team)
Manor BW01 (Virgin VF1-10) – Cosworth CA2010 (car designed and built by Nick Wirth, formerly of Simtek and Benetton)
Team Principal: John Booth (of Manor Grand Prix) / Alex Tai (of Virgin) ; Technical Director: Nick Wirth
22. Anthony Davidson (experienced ex-F1 driver)
Lucas Di Grassi (GP2 race winner, did F3 for Manor in 2005)
23. Adam Carroll (GP2 race winner and A1GP champion, has been approached by 2 teams for ‘10)
Mike Conway (GP2 race winner, currently in IndyCar)

Best Buy Team US F1
US F1-10 – Cosworth CA2010 (contracted) / Toyota RVX-10 (rumoured)
Team Principal: Peter Windsor ; Technical Director: Ken Anderson
24. Alex Wurz (although Austrian, experienced test driver; excellent choice to develop the new car)
Pedro de la Rosa (although Spanish, experienced test driver; excellent choice to develop the new car)
Franck Montagny (rumoured although French, has some experience)
25. Ryan Hunter-Reay (experienced driver)
Jonathan Summerton (oft-rumoured, but still young)
Marco Andretti (some people believe he has what it takes for F1)
Graham Rahal (rumoured)

1Malaysia Lotus F1 Team
Lotus 110 – Cosworth CA2010
Team Principal: Tony Fernandes ; Technical Director: Mike Gascoyne
26. Neel Jani (allegedly aligned with the Malaysian group)
27. Bruno Senna (wouldn't that be nice)
Alex Yoong (experienced and, well, Malaysian)

Sauber F1 Team (BMW-owned team did not sign 2010-2012 Concorde Agreement, but obtained '14th place'; talks on allowing 14 teams in 2010 ongoing)
Sauber C25 – Ferrari 056 (again with Petronas badge?)
Team Principal: Lionel Fischer (of QADBAK) / Peter Sauber (unlikely) ; Technical Director: Willy Rampf
28. Robert Kubica (contracted for '09; unlikely to stay on)
Christian Klien (current test driver; could make for a typically sound Sauber line-up with Heidfeld)
29. Nick Heidfeld (contracted for '09; may stay on)

Let's imagine for a second that there's some truth to the Richards buyout. Is he known to like/support specific drivers?

I've always understood he's a fan of J.A.L. Button, A.D. Davidson, and L. Tucci Di Grassi's.

Wasn't there rumours of a falling out between DR and JB. This was supposed to have had some bearing on why JB signed for Williams and the subsequent contract wrangles.

lustigson, just wanted to say stirling effort with the silly season line ups. Great work

lustigson, sterling effort as always. just wonder if for the next one, you might include team managers into it too, please?

Stefan hasn't retired (yet)

Hopefully Wiliams can pick up Kubica AND the Renault engine if the Merc isn't available.

Kubica and The Hulk would be my preferred duo at Williams if Rosberg leaves.

Williams *might* pickup the Merc engine if the McLaren veto stands (ie McLaren block Redbull from getting them)

Apparently when Briatore was around, the Renault engine was available to Williams so long as they didn't sign Kubica, don't know if that has changed or not.

Good idea. I added them to the list posted above.

lustigson, Geoff Willis left Red Bull in July.

http://allenonf1.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/...ut-at-red-bull/

Thanks. I had missed that. Plus Willis' name was still on Wikipedia.

I put in Adrian Newey above, although he's not 'Technical Director', IIRC. And fixed Wikipedia, too.

lustigson, superb work


but brawngp principal is ross will be switch for fry acute ?

Thanks for the summary - that's awesome....I just read on autosport.com that Nico might go to Brawn next year, and I was thinking I needed a good summary of what is supposed to be happening next year.

Mike Conway @ Manor GP???? Man, that kid sucks.


CC

I would think Carroll would be more likely.

Ross Brawn - Team Principal
Nick Fry - CEO



If only we had an official BB rFactor mod for this... and with pictures here...

well done again lustigson.

couple of things i'd like to see next year.

williams-renault with good drivers and engines.
aston martin-mercedes at enstone with decent drivers, including heidfeld.
force india-mercedes to remain - with current drivers (they keep taking me to GPs after all)

To then also have Virgin F1 (which I've long been waiting for, but won't particularly support), Lotus (ditto), Silver Arrows at Brawn, McLaren supercars, Cosworth and all the rest it really is going to be a great field - in name at least.

Plus I'm actually looking forward to some Forti level teams being back.

Fixed.

i agree! it was great to see privateer teams getting so excited about running in the points....simtek at argentina 1995, minardi at nurburgring 1999, lambo at san marino 1991, etc
all the current teams are just too good! there's no underdog anymore!

Kubica at Williams in 2010
Your heard it here first.

No I didn't, I had heard it before. Don't know where, though. ;-)

Another hypothetical question. If Kubica goes to Williams and Alonso to Ferrari - who will driver for whatever becomes of Renault? They can't go with guys they already had (and there's a lot of them... Trulli, Button, Kovaleinen, Fisichella, etc.), because I understand that not few drivers left Renault/Benetton under the Briatore rule with a bad taste in their mouth, and even without Briatore they might not be too willing to go back there).

They couldn't just go with Grosjean and di Grassi...?!?!

lotus with senna and nakajima.

And Heiki.

If David Richards were to take over, even if the team remain Renault, I'd not be surprised to see Di Grassi end up there. He's been a Renault protégé for quite some time, and Richards allegedly likes him, too. Grosjean and Di Grassi would make for quite an inexperienced pairing, though, with only 7 Grands Prix, 7 GP2 victories, and an F3 and GP2 Asia title combined.

Numbers 11 and 12. Ahh the memories.

barrichello will drive at either brawn (my preference) or williams in 2010. his experience and racecraft and technical input are certainly appreciated in team principle circles. and perhaps he'll bring the number 1# with him.

word.

IF barri will be wdc I think, that he will be retired in 2010...

The problem with this years silly season is that we haven't got a clue which teams will be in F1 next year.

It could be a 26 car grid as it stands atm, with a possible increase to a 28 car grid but if Renault pull out/get banned then we will go back down to a 26 car grid.

The problem with that is 2 of the big movers and shakers are in the teams which could alter the size of the grid. Alonso and Kubica.

No team can announce its line-up before the hearing on Monday unless they are going to keep their current line-up.

Since they're at the back because they're new and they'll get a low number, the number twenty-five would be fitting for Bruno Senna because it would be twenty-five years since Ayrton Senna drove for the team.

Nothing better then to go out on the top.

That makes sense to you and me but this guy won't stop until he feels his skills diminishing. Maybe not even then. I would have said until he wins the Brazilian GP but even if he wins that one he'll want to do it again. You go, Ruby!

Lotus' Team Principal Tony Fernandes states that he would like to...



That sounds to me like he want someone like R.G. Barrichello, G. Fisichella or J. Trulli.

It's very, very quiet around the Campos team.
I have a feeling they will not make the grid next year.

Manor have been very quiet about next year as well. USF1 as well. And aside from the annoucement that they'll be there in 2010, Lotus haven't said anything either.

The only reason why Campos didn't annouce a driver in Valencia is because Pedro de la Rosa reportedly wanted to wait to see if Epsilon Euskadi made the grid.

I'm not talking about drivers. You need to design and build a car first, which is much more important and is the most challenging part.

USF1 quiet?
-They've applied to enter FOTA.
-They released images of early CFD models.
-Peter Windsor is contantly making noises. They also gave more insight than any other new entry about their progress.
-They revealed their principle investor
-The investor (Hurley) gave interviews.

No. USF1 are not quiet.

Manor we more or less know they will get Virgin backing.

Lotus has significant Malyasian goverment backing which is credible.

Campos is just very quiet.

Agree, indeed I trust more USF1 than other new entry even if at the beginning it sounds for me as a weird story.

What exactly do we expect them to be saying?

I find it kind of perverse that so many on this forum believe that the amount of noise a team makes is an accurate barometer for how ready they are to compete.

Exactly. It may even be the opposite.

Nothing perverse about that. To own and run an F1 team is a business. You need PR. You need to let people know you are there and working at it.
Especillay since there are strong rumors that some of the new teams are struggling to the extent that they may not make the grid.
The fact that Campos is not saying anything leads me to belive they are in trouble.

BTW: I just remember Audetto siad they considered pulling out:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/78022

But what do you want them to say? What do you expect them to even be able to say?

They need to say something about e.g. thier development schedule. Whether they're on target or not. Just to take away the doubts. Doubts they have raised themselves.
If not, my perception will remain that they're struggling.

Why would they give that information away to their rivals?

Campos contracted the design of the chassis out to Dallara from the outset. Just because they haven't said anything doesn't mean they won't make it; hell, they're probably too busy to say anything.

Nothing secretive about a development schedule.

I just think they're severly lacking funds.

We should revisit this when the new season draws closer.

Even to actually have a website up and running. All three new teams from June still haven't got a working website.

So, no press releases = no budget?

That's a pretty sizeable leap in logic.

And a development schedule IS a secret.

And as for not having websites, why would they? What have they got to show? And what would the point in Manor GP having a website be when they'll be Virgin GP next season when it actually matters?

It just seems that some of you have ADD and unless someone is constantly bombarding you with useless PR information, you don't remember that they exist.

While they have compained about the fact that the budget cap didn't go through, they wouldn't have gotten onto the grid in the firt place if they didn't have a decent enough budget. They can compete, they just have to be a little spendthrift.

Like Burai, I fail to understand your logic in making the connection between a lack of press releases and a lack of budget.

Because ultimately we have seen it before - not necessarily regarding F1 teams, but in all walks of life, something is announced, makes front page news, big press conference and brash statements and then things all go quiet and then the plan is shelved.

This isn't something Campos can easily back out of.