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Christian Horner (front right), Martin Whitmarsh (front left), Stefano Domenicali (rear left) and Adam Parr at the press conference in Abu Dhabi on Friday. The four team bosses were full of praise for the 2010 Formula One season. Image Credit: ALEX WESTCOTT/Gulf News

Abu Dhabi: Some of the team principals have termed the 2010 championship as an "absolutely epic" one with "Formula 1 at its best".

With quite a few rules changing and reigniting fans' interest, especially the new points format, this season will see four drivers battling for the title, a first in the history of the sport, in the 19th and final race of the season.

The team bosses of newly crowned Constructors' champions Red Bull Racing, Ferrari, McLaren and Williams were full of praise for the season.

Christian Horner, team boss of newly crowned Constructors champions Red Bull Racing, said: "From a Red Bull point of view we have done our best to keep it interesting. But you have also got to look at the regulations. We have still got relatively newer regulations and the pace of developments has been relentless."

"With the regulations being reasonably mature the gains the teams have seen have been significant. The pendulum has swung between the three main teams here circuit to circuit, so it has been a fantastic year for Formula One," Horner said at a press conference on Friday night.

Moments of being quick

"It has been an exciting one to be involved in and here we are at the 19th race with four drivers who are still competing for this championship."

McLaren's Martin Whitmarsh termed it an "epic" season.

"We have got some great World Champions competing in this year's championship and it really has been an epic season," he said.

"I think Red Bull have had a very quick car all year. I think we have had moments of being quick.

"Ferrari have made, staged, a fantastic recovery from mid-year and I think that has made it move around," said Whitmarsh, whose team driver Lewis Hamilton still holds an outside chance of winning the title today.

"The form of the drivers and the teams has changed from circuit to circuit. I think it really has been an epic season, certainly not just for us involved in it," he added.

"We have had our thrills and disappointments as you normally do but I think as a season for the fans this has been absolutely epic and I am sure we will have a really exciting weekend here."

Unique championship

 

Ferrari's Stefano Domenicali said this year's championship was "unique".

"We have an incredible level of drivers, which really makes a big difference. The teams in this new change of regulations, I would say, have done quite an interesting job in order to try to be closer together. Then of course all the factors that have happened this year have basically involved all the teams and brought something unique to the championship itself."

Commenting on the closely fought team championship and today's title-clash, the Ferrari boss said: "It seems a real long time that we don't have many drivers and many teams that are fighting for something, so this is the main thing of the season."

"It is a really unique championship in that respect even if I have to say, once again, congratulations to Red Bull for winning the Constructors' title. They totally deserved it, so that is one thing that is already out of the equation unfortunately for Sunday."

Williams' Adam Parr pointed out that it was the sport of Formula One which has been responsible for this year's exciting journey.

"I think it is Formula One. The thing about Formula One, unlike most sports, is there are so many variables. There's the car, there's the drivers and there's the way the car develops during the year.

"There is each of the different circuits, the weather and then there is strategy and so forth. You have got so many variables that when you have got very many excellent teams like those sitting around me it is very hard for anybody to really dominate," he said.

"It is just Formula One at its best," Parr said.