Hello everybody welcome back to another WTF1 that time when podcast my name is Matt Gallagher

I don't know why I just said my surname Matt. You're Tom Bellingham that I'm looking at you but you can't see

this as his audio. You love surnames in this podcast. And Dan Thorne. Stopful Dan Thorne.

Stopful Dan Thorne. You've never said that to me before and I enjoyed that a lot.

Anyway today we are going to be talking about the time when Bahrain used the endurance track layout

for Formula One. So we're actually going to be looking at the 2010 season and it happened once

so that year did happen once. That year happened and also the track layout happened only the

one time. So to give you guys a bit of a feel as to what was going on in 2010 it was when new

teams were joining we had HRT what was it? HRT Virgin and Lotus. They kept changing their name

didn't they because they were Manor and caterer and later on. Yeah and then I'm thinking of like

Mauritius as well but that's later on. So it was a 24 car grid back then. You know four cars more

than we're seeing now. They had a boundary fueling so we're into that stage of Formula One. A 60th

year Formula One and the season started in Bahrain which upsets me greatly because I think the

season open up belongs in Australia and it started in Bahrain. Why was it? Why did they start in Bahrain?

What's the thoughts behind that do we know? Well it's the 60th year of F1 so it's probably

one of those money things where they said we host the season opener. Okay so maybe it's a case

of the track going we want to start it. Yeah or the FIA. Speculation. Yeah absolutely.

But yeah so we don't actually have an answer for that but we'll continue. So Tommy give us a taste

of what was going on. So yeah I think it's fair to say that 2010 was the start of a kind of new era

in F1. You had Michael Schumacher returning which was quite cool. Mercedes were back. That was

pretty exciting. I'm very excited. You were very excited. So yeah you had really slow. So yeah

Schumacher, Alonzo, Masso was back who was still you know and that was only two years since he

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