It's going to be a cracking season!!!

This year's F1 season is shaping up to be cracker. In 2012, there will be a total of six ex or reigning world champion's with the return of 2007 champion Kimi Raikkonen who returns to the sport for the first since 2009. So far in preseason testing all team's have been extremely close and reliability has been very good. There have been a number of rule change's for the 2012 season. I shall go into these in more detail. 

I find it very interesting that this season four out of thee 12 team's competing in F1 are powered by Renault engine's, RedBull, Lotus, Caterham and Williams all have the V8 power planets. So far in presason testing it has been to close to call between RedBull and McLaren, however the Lotus team have been very quick and have shown good reliability.

Last season, Lotus Renault as they were known as made a great start to season scoring two podium's in the first two round's of the championship in Australia and Malaysia. The team will be hoping for a repeat of last season's great start especially this year with a new driver line-up in Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean. Kimi has always performed very well in Australia.