Mercedes: Number one engine supplier again in 2010

Formula One teams are continually on the lookout for vital tenths of a second. In almost every race, new wings and aerodynamic updates are tested. And yet, without a powerful, reliable engine, nothing would move at all in F1.

Red Bull racing driver Sebastian Vettel took a big knock in the hunt for the world championship: a sparkplug gremlin in Bahrain and engine failure in Korea on his V8 Renault cost him 38 championship points. Had he secured those points, he would now be only two points adrift of clinching the world championship title at the finale in Abu Dhabi.