'Tenth place in the constructors' is the goal...'

[PWNSNBM]

New Teams Battling For ‘Millions’ In 2010

Link: http://formula-one.speedtv.com/article/f1-new-teams-battling-for-millions-in-2010/

[TeamTipper]

Tenth place is the best the new teams can hope.

[Phoenix]

For what I see Lotus is completely focused on reliability. A good point, yes, but my flying thought was that if, say, Lotus finishes 23 out of 38 starts with a 12th as their best result and Virgin only 15 with a best result of 11th, it won't be all that worthwile.

[kowalski]

For what I see Lotus is completely focused on reliability. A good point, yes, but my flying thought was that if, say, Lotus finishes 23 out of 38 starts with a 12th as their best result and Virgin only 15 with a best result of 11th, it won't be all that worthwile.

Yes, very true - but with the first race of the season often being the worst in terms of reliability Lotus may have already done enough (2 saubers and a torro rosso conking out). Obviously a wet race would throw all that out...

Also, Lotus have said that they will be doing a serious update for Spain (I imagine we will see a much slimmed down car then)

- AND getting the 'testing miles' of completing races is a big deal for them.

I wish them the best of luck though (as they seem the most 'likeable' of the new teams)

[SuperAguri]

As there will be question marks over the Toro Rosso, maybe if they can start making the car faster then 9th could be a reachable target?

[coops]

Bahrain was great for them but one swallow doesnt make a spring. Lets see how optimistic they feel in a few races time.