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2010 Renault F1 R30

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Driven by Robert Kubica and rookie Vitaly Petrov for the 2010 season.

2007 Red Bull Racing RB3

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The design is distinctly Adrian Newey, bearing a resemblance to past cars such as the 2005 McLaren MP4-20.

2011 Lotus Renault F1 R31

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The car’s distinctive black and gold livery was designed as a tribute to the Team Lotus cars of the 1980s and the famous John Player Special liveries.

2007 Toro Rosso STR2

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The car is, controversially, a variant of the Red Bull RB3 chassis powered by a Ferrari instead of a Renault engine.

2011 Team Lotus T128

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2011 saw the car abandon its Cosworth engine in favour of one developed by Renault.

2008 Red Bull Racing RB4

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The RB4 is the team’s second Adrian Newey-designed car; this car has had the help of Geoff Willis whom the team had recruited from Honda in 2007.

2009 Toyota TF109

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The team’s eighth season in Formula 1 sees major rule changes so the TF109, looking considerably different to its predecessor.

2009 Ferrari F60

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The 55th single-seater car produced by Ferrari to compete in Formula One, was named F60 to celebrate Ferrari’s 60th year in Formula One.

2012 McLaren MP4-27

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After the struggles McLaren experienced in the build-up to the 2009 and 2011 seasons, the MP4-27 demonstrated early promise in testing.

2012 Force India VJM05

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For their 2012 line-up, the team retained Paul di Resta and replaced Adrian Sutil with their 2011 reserve driver, Nico Hülkenberg.

2013 Lotus Renault F1 E21

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The E21 was the first of the 2013 season cars to be launched.

2002 Jaguar R3

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After the disappointing past two seasons, 2002 was even worse for Jaguar.

2012 Toro Rosso STR7

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the seventh car run by the team, and the third car that they have fully designed and developed.

2002 McLaren MP4-17

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Finished third in the constructors championship with 65 points and one victory, in Monaco.

2009 Force India VJM02

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The team decided late in development to change from a Ferrari to a Mercedes engine, along with McLaren gearboxes and hydraulics.

2013 Ferrari F138

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Named “F138” to represent the year that it would be raced, 2013, and to mark the final season that Formula One would use V8 engines.

2013 Force India VJM06

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The Force India VJM06 is a complete redesign of the previous year’s car.

2006 Honda RA106

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The year marked the first time Honda had competed as a full team since 1968; since then it had only competed as an engine supplier until taking over BAR completely.

2009 Renault F1 R29

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The team expected to be fighting for both the drivers and constructors titles. Instead, the car proved to be disappointing.

2010 Virgin Racing VR-01

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The VR-01 was the first Formula One racing car designed entirely with computational fluid dynamics.

2007 Honda RA107

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The ‘livery launch’ for the RA107 took place at the Natural History Museum in London and showed a completely new take on the look of a Formula One car.

2011 Sauber F1 C30

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As with the Sauber C29 the car is powered by a Ferrari engine, but with added capability to house Ferrari’s customer KERS system.

2008 Ferrari F2008

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Features a new standard Electronic Control Unit (ECU), which is the electronic system that controls all the cars, produced by McLaren Electronic Systems.