By Jonathan McEvoy Last updated at 10:50 PM on 25th December 2009
In the third part of Sportsmail's series looking back at sport in the Noughties, Motor Racing Correspondent Jonathan McEvoy recalls the wins, the spins, the controversy and the absolutely brilliant best from a great decade for Formula One...
Apologies to Jenson Button for not featuring your championship victory in the top 10. And I'll accept your thanks, Lewis Hamilton, for excluding the misleading evidence you gave the stewards at the start of the 2009 season.
As for you, Max Mosley, there is no place for your whips and chains on this list. This is about the Noughties not the Naughties. Well, those omissions tell you everything you need to know about the quality of fare offered by Formula One over the past decade.
Thumbs up: love him or hate him, Michael Schumacher made Formula One exciting
OK, you might have been turned off by the sheer Germanic efficiency of Michael Schumacher, but wasn't he a fabulous talent?
Sure, there is the argument that he demanded a patsy of a team-mate, yet we should not forget that Ferrari built their renaissance around him because he was the supreme exponent of the post-Senna years.
Schumacher apart, there have been scandals galore, the emergence of Britain's own Hamilton, the indefatigability of commercial wizard Bernie Ecclestone, and even a night race under lights in Singapore.
And just as the decade comes to a close (without a Formula One death, it should be noted, thanks to the perception and assiduous work of the aforementioned Mosley, the former FIA president), who should be returning with the new Mercedes team?
A clue: big record, big age, big chin. Welcome back Michael Schumacher, here at the start and the end. In purely random order...
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