As the 2010 F1 season opener draws nearer, there have been many questions about who will be on the starting grid in Bahrain. Many new comers have been granted a spot on the grid; however there are many questions still to be answered.

Ferrari introduced a new front and rear wheel design to circumvent the rule banning wheel fairings. The team also tried out the long anticipated anvil (shark fin) engine cover.

On the final day of this test session at Jerez, on Feb 13 Ferrari had racked up over 700km in testing, and overall had put the car through a rigorous program which the car has thus far done flawlessly and without any reliability problems. However, the same question still remains. Is the new Ferrari F10 single-seater faster than the rest?

After a lackluster 2009 season, it’s easy to get carried away in thinking that Ferrari are back on top. Ferrari drivers Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso occupied the top of the time sheets at the first pre-season testing event in Valencia, Spain. The scuderia’s cars were the only single seater’s lapping in the 1 minute 11 second range with the rest of the drivers failing to break the 1 minute 12 second barrier. A great start to the F1 pre-season, but team principal Stefano Domenicali may now face the toughest job in preparing the team for the 2010 championship, and that is keeping the prancing horse’s feet firmly on the ground.

Compiled video of all three days of testing from Valencia, Spain. Testing in Valencia is over. Teams now prepare to head to Jerez Spain to conduct the next of the schedule pre-season test events.

For all intents and purposes, the top of the time sheets in each of the sessions was clearly dominated by Ferrari.

With only a few laps under his belt in a Ferrari, former two time F1 Champion Fernando Alonso has not only clocked the fastest time of this morning’s session, but fastest of all thus far with a 1.11.470.

New regulations for the 2010 Formula One season have been approved by the F1 commission. The two new regulations are concerning tires and the points system.

Day two of testing in Cheste, Spain sees Ferrari and Felipe leading the way again after day 2. After a series of long runs and short stints with both heavy and lighter fuel loads and scrubbed tires, the Brazilian set the fastest time of the day during the morning session with a time of 1m11.722s.

Ferrari’s confidence in the F10 grows after Felipe Massa ends day 1 of pre-season testing in P1 Valencia topping the time sheets. After the morning session, Felipe Massa set the benchmark time to beat with a time of 1:13.088s just before lunch completing a total of 32 laps. As the test went on into the afternoon, times subsequently began to drop.

As the teams break for lunch from the first F1 tests of the 2010 season at Cheste, near Valencia, Ferrari’s Felipe Massa finds himself at the top of the time sheets.

Scuderia Ferrari has officially launched the F10, the car with which it plans to enter and contest the 2010 Formula 1 World Championship. After several weeks earlier announcing that the new car’s launch would be streamed online via Ferrari’s official website the new single-seater was officially unveiled in Maranello at the GT Assembly Line Pavilion around 10.30am today.