2010 Qatar Crown Prince Cup
The 2010 Qatar Crown Prince Cup was the 16th edition of the cup tournament in men's football (soccer). It is played by the top-4 teams of the Qatar Stars League after the end of each season.


2010 Qatar Open
The 2010 Qatar Open, known as the 2010 Qatar ExxonMobil Open for sponsorship reasons, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 18th edition of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2010 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Khalifa International Tennis Complex in Doha, Qatar, from 4 January through 9 January 2010. Third-seeded Nikolay Davydenko won the singles title.


2010 Qatar Open, Finals, Doubles
Guillermo García-López /  Albert Montañés defeated  František Čermák /  Michal Mertiňák, 6–4, 7–5


2010 Qatar Open, Entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 Qatar Open – Doubles
Marc López and Rafael Nadal were the defending champions, but lost in the first round to Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski.


2010 Qatar Open – Doubles
Guillermo García-López and Albert Montañés defeated František Čermák and Michal Mertiňák in the final, 6–4, 7–5.


2010 Qatar Open – Singles
Andy Murray was the defending champion, but chose not to participate this year. Nikolay Davydenko won in the final 0–6, 7–6(10–8), 6–4, against Rafael Nadal.


2010 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2010 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix, officially the Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar, was the opening round of the 2010 MotoGP championship. It took place on the weekend of 9–11 April 2010 at the Losail International Circuit located in Doha, Qatar. Spectator attendance was 7302. Defending world champion Valentino Rossi won the opening  MotoGP race after Casey Stoner crashed while in the lead, ending his undefeated streak from 2007. This was also the first race for the newly formed Moto2 class, which was introduced as a replacement for the 250cc two-stroke class. All bikes in this class were powered with 600cc four-stroke engines based on the Honda CBR600RR. This event was also known for Shoya Tomizawa's first and only Grand Prix win before he was killed in an accident at the 2010 San Marino motorcycle Grand Prix .


2010 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round one has concluded.


2010 Qatari Stars Cup
The 2nd Qatari Stars Cup started on 18 November 2010.


2010 Qatari Stars Cup
The Stars Cup is one of four competitions in the 2010–11 Qatari football season. 12 clubs are taking part in the tournament.


2010 Qatari Stars Cup
They were divided into two groups of six teams, with the winner and runner-up of each group will advancing to the semi-finals.


2010 Quadrangular Twenty20 Series in Sri Lanka
2010 Quadrangular Twenty20 Series in Sri Lanka was a tournament of Twenty20 cricket matches that were held in Sri Lanka from 1 to 4 February 2010. The four participating teams were Afghanistan, Canada, Ireland and Sri Lanka A. The matches were played in Colombo.


2010 Quebec Men's Provincial Curling Championship
The 2010 Quebec Men's Provincial Curling Championship was held February 7–14 in at the Aréna de Grand-Mère in Grand-Mère, Quebec. The winning team, skipped by Serge Reid represented Quebec at the 2010 Tim Hortons Brier in Halifax, Nova Scotia.


2010 Quebec Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The 2010 Quebec Scotties Tournament of Hearts was held January 4-10, 2010 at the Montreal West Curling Club in Montreal West. The winner represents team Quebec at the 2010 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario


2010 Quebec provincial by-elections
Three provincial by-elections were held in Quebec in 2010 to fill vacancies in the National Assembly.


2010 Quebec provincial by-elections, Vachon
The district of Vachon was vacated by Parti Québécois MNA Camil Bouchard on January 6, 2010. The by-election took place on July 5, 2010. The riding was held by the PQ.


2010 Quebec provincial by-elections, Saint-Laurent
The district of Saint-Laurent was vacated by Liberal MNA Jacques Dupuis on August 9, 2010. The by-election took place on September 13, 2010.


2010 Quebec provincial by-elections, Saint-Laurent
The Gazette, the main English newspaper in Montreal, took the unusual step of endorsing Action démocratique du Québec candidate Jose Fiorillo over Quebec Liberal Party candidate Jean-Marc Fournier, calling Fournier a parachute candidate who deserved to be rejected by the voters. Despite this, the riding was held by the Liberals.


2010 Quebec provincial by-elections, Kamouraska-Témiscouata
The district of Kamouraska-Témiscouata was vacated by Liberal MNA Claude Béchard on September 7 due to his pancreatic cancer, which he died from later the same day. The by-election took place on November 29.


2010 Quebec provincial by-elections, Kamouraska-Témiscouata
The riding was captured by the PQ, reflecting the Liberals' declining popularity due in part to their refusal to hold a public inquiry into construction industry corruption. In response to the by-election results, Premier Jean Charest announced he would create a permanent unit to investigate corruption in the construction industry.


2010 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)
The Queen's Birthday Honours 2010 for Australia were announced on 13 June 2010.


2010 Queen's Cup
The 2010 Queen's Cup was the 34th edition of this Thai domestic football cup competition.


2010 Queen's Cup
It was an invitational competition and this edition was jointly hosted by Chonburi football club and the Football Association of Thailand.


2010 Queen's Cup
Unlike the Thai Premier League, clubs do not have to be public limited companies, so former football clubs in the Thai football league system can enter.


2010 Queen's Cup
The champions received 300,000 baht while the runners-up will get 150,000 baht.


2010 Queen's Cup Final
The 2010 Queen's Cup Final was the final match of the 2010 Queen's Cup, the 34th season of the Queen's Cup. The match was played at IPE Chonburi Stadium on 18 February 2010. The final and both semi-finals was broadcast live on the Siamsport TV. It was contested by Police United and the Krung Thai Bank-BG.


2010 Queensland Basketball League season
The 2010 Men's Queensland Basketball League season was the 25th running of the competition. The Rockhampton Rockets won the championship in 2010 to claim their third league title.


2010 Queensland Basketball League season
The teams for this season were: Brisbane Capitals, Bundaberg Bulls, Caboolture Suns, Cairns Marlins, Gladstone Port City Power, Gold Coast Goannas, Ipswich Force, Mackay Meteors, Maroochydore Clippers, Northside Wizards, Rockhampton Rockets, South West Metro Pirates, Toowoomba Mountaineers and Townsville Heat.


2010 Queensland Basketball League season, Standings, Finals
*The team that finishes 1st overall goes straight through to the semi-finals.


2010 Queensland Basketball League season, Standings, Finals
* *The top two teams from each pool face-off in the quarter-finals.


2010 Queensland Cup
The 2010 Queensland Cup season was the 15th season of Queensland's top-level statewide rugby league competition run by the Queensland Rugby League. The competition, known as the Intrust Super Cup due to sponsorship from Intrust Super, featured 12 teams playing a 25-week-long season (including finals) from March to September.


2010 Queensland Cup
The Northern Pride won their first premiership after defeating the Norths Devils 30–20 in the Grand Final at Suncorp Stadium. Sunshine Coast Sea Eagles' halfback Daly Cherry-Evans was named the competition's Player of the Year, winning the Courier Mail Medal.


2010 Queensland Cup, Teams
In 2010, the lineup of teams remained unchanged for the second consecutive year.


2010 Queensland Cup, Final series
In 2010, the competition used a modified version of the six-team finals format that they implemented a year earlier.


2010 Queensland Cup, Grand Final
The Norths Devils finished the regular season in second and defeated the minor premiers Souths Logan in the first week of the finals. In the preliminary final they thrashed Mackay 56–12 to qualify for the second Grand Final and their first since 1998. The Northern Pride finished fourth and defeated Wynnum Manly in an elimination final. In the preliminary final, they upset Souths Logan 28–8 to qualify for their second straight Grand Final.


2010 Queensland Cup, Grand Final, First half
The Pride started the first half on fire, scoring three tries inside the first 20 minutes. They kicked it off with a try to prop Noel Underwood in the 4th minute before centre Rod Jensen helped double his side's lead in the 15th minute. Winger Michael Bani was the next to score, stepping through some soft defence to push the Pride's lead to 18. It took 37th minutes for the Devils to finally post their first points when second rower Brendon Gibb barged over.


2010 Queensland Cup, Grand Final, Second half
The Pride regained their 18-point lead when bench forward Rod Griffin steamrolled his way through to score four minutes after the break. Norths hit back quickly this time, crossing just five minutes later through Luke Samoa. They made it back-to-back tries not long after when winger Gideon Mzembe dived over in the right corner. The comeback attempt was short lived, as the Pride scored their fifth try of the game when Nick Slyney crossed. Samoa scored off a Pride error in the 72nd minute to give his side a slight chance but it was too little too late. The Pride won their first premiership and became the second club from outside south east Queensland to lift the trophy.


2010 Queensland Cup, Grand Final, Second half
Pride halfback and captain Chris Sheppard was awarded the Duncan Hall Medal in his final game before retirement.


2010 Quetta Civil Hospital bombing
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2010 Quetta Civil Hospital bombing
2010 Quetta Civil Hospital bombing occurred on 16 April 2010 in Quetta, Pakistan. Killing at least 12 people and injuring 47 people including Shia Hazara PPP Member of National Assembly Syed Nasir Ali Shah and his son. His guards were killed and injured. The incidentalso took away lives of two Hazara police officers. The incident took place when they had arrived to condole the death of a Shia bank manager who was killed by unidentified gunmen earlier.


2010 Quetta Civil Hospital bombing, Background
Pakistan, which has a mostly Sunni population, has seen sectarian attacks against minorities including Shias, who account for about 15–25% of Pakistan's population, and are the followers of the Prophet's progeny. Sunni militant groups like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan which operate freely in Pakistan have for years targeted minorities including Shias. Hazaras who are predominantly Shia have been killed since 1998 due to their distinct facial features. Sayed Nasir Ali Shah known to be the first ever Hazara elected as the member of National assembly was expected to visit the hospital.


2010 Quezon City local elections
Local elections will be held in the Quezon City on May 10, 2010 within the Philippine general election. The voters will elect for the elective local posts in the city: the mayor, vice mayor, four District representatives, and councilors, six in each of the city's four legislative districts.


2010 Quezon City local elections, Mayoral and vice mayoral election
Incumbents mayor Feliciano Belmonte, Jr. and vice mayor Herbert Bautista is now on their third term as mayor and vice mayor of Quezon City. Bautista announced that he is running for the mayorship of the city. They are running under the Liberal Party although Belmonte is the SVP for External Affairs of Lakas-Kampi-CMD. Belmonte's daughter Joy is Bautista's running mate. If Belmonte wins, she will be the third female vice mayor next to Charito Planas and Connie Angeles. Mayor Belmonte is running for a congressional post in the 4th District where he served there as representative from 1992 to 2001. Bautista ran for mayor in 1998, but lost to Ismael Mathay, Jr.


2010 Quezon City local elections, Mayoral and vice mayoral election
Former three-term mayor Ismael Mathay, Jr. is also running for mayor as an independent candidate. He served as mayor from 1992 to 2001. Before he became mayor, he was the former Quezon City 4th District Representative from 1988 to 1992. He ran for mayor in 2004 but lost to Sonny Belmonte.


2010 Quezon City local elections, Mayoral and vice mayoral election
Former Presidential Chief of Staff Mike Defensor is running under the Nacionalista Party. Defensor was the former Quezon City 3rd District Representative, then he became the chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinate Council, Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and Presidential Chief of Staff. He ran for senator under TEAM Unity, but he ranked 15 in the polls. His running mate is actress and three term 2nd District Councilor Aiko Melendez of the Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino. They are part of the Performance Team, which consists of members (Mayor, Vice Mayor, Congressman & Councilors) from Lakas-Kampi-CMD, NP & PMP. Defensor & Melendez are part of the team.


2010 Quezon City local elections, Mayoral and vice mayoral election
Quezon City 2nd District Representative Mary Ann Susano is on her second term as representative. She is eligible to run for a third term. But, she insisted to run for mayor under the Nationalist People's Coalition. If she wins, she will be the second female mayor next to Adelina S. Rodriguez. Her running mate is 4th District councilor Janet Malaya. This was the first time that two females are teaming up for the highest positions in the City.


2010 Quezon City local elections, Mayoral and vice mayoral election
Other candidates for the mayorship are 4th District councilor Ariel Inton, Jay Bautista, John Charles Chang, Engracio Icasiano, Henry Samonte and Roberto Sombillo.


2010 Quezon City local elections, Results
The candidates for mayor and vice mayor with the highest number of votes wins the seat; they are voted separately, therefore, they may be of different parties when elected.


2010 Quezon City local elections, Results, Congressional election results, 1st District
Vincent "Bingbong" Crisologo is the incumbent representative of the first district of Quezon City. Crisologo, filed a case in the Metropolitan Trial Court (MeTC) of Quezon City for the exclusion of candidate Vivienne Tan from the voter's list of the district, on the grounds that (1) she was not a Filipino citizen when she registered as a voter, and (2) she failed to meet the residency requirements under the law. Tan, the daughter of business magnate Lucio Tan, migrated to the United States and became a naturalized American citizen on January 19, 1993.


2010 Quezon City local elections, Results, Congressional election results, 1st District
She returned to the Philippines in 1996 and has resided here since. The MeTC ruled in favor of Crisologo. Tan appealed and won in the Regional Trial Court (RTC), but Crisologo appealed to the Court of Appeals, which disqualified Tan as "Not being a Filipino citizen at the time of her application to be registered as a voter on October 26, 2009 or at the time when her said application was approved by the [Commission on Elections] on November 16, 2009, Tan's inclusion in the voter’s list of Precinct 0853-A, Sto.


2010 Quezon City local elections, Results, Congressional election results, 1st District
Domingo, Quezon City, is therefore, highly irregular and downright invalid." The CA ruled in favor of Congressman Bingbong Crisologo. Further, Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan certified that Tan re-acquired her Filipino citizenship only on December 1. On November 8, 2017, the Supreme Court of the Philippines affirmed the ruling of the Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court ruled that Tan was not a Filipino Citizenship at the time when she registered as a voter and thus her inclusion in the voter's list was highly irregular.


2010 Quezon City local elections, Results, Congressional election results, 1st District
Tan registered as a voter on 26 October 2009, before taking her Oath of Allegiance to the Republic of the Philippines on 30 November 2009. Under Philippine law, to be able to run for Congress, a candidate is required, among others, to be a natural born citizen of the Philippines, a registered voter in the district in which he or she shall be elected, and a resident thereof for a period of not less than one year immediately preceding the day of the election.


2010 Quezon City local elections, Results, Congressional election results, 1st District
The Supreme Court stated that she could not have been a registered voter since when she registered as a voter, she was not a Filipino Citizen. Thus it follows, that Tan could not be a candidate for Congress since she was not a registered voter in the district where she was hoping to be elected.


2010 Quezon City local elections, Results, Congressional election results, 2nd District
Incumbent Mary Ann Susano is running for mayor of Quezon City.


2010 Quezon City local elections, Results, Congressional election results, 4th District
Incumbent Nanette Castelo-Daza is already in her third consecutive term and is ineligible for reelection.


2010 Quezon City local elections, Results, City council elections
Each of Quezon City's four legislative districts elects six councilors to the City Council. The six candidates with the highest number of votes wins those district's six seats in the council. Some who are running are celebrities.


2010 Quick-Step season
The 2010 season for Quick-Step began in January with the Tour Down Under and ended in October at the Giro di Lombardia. As a UCI ProTour team, they were automatically invited and obliged to attend every event in the ProTour. The team looks to remain as one of the world's foremost in the spring classics. Its ridership is mostly unchanged from 2009, in spite of an offseason attempt to sign reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador.


2010 Quick-Step season, Stage races
After beginning their season at the Tour Down Under with no victories, Quick Step then entered the Tour of Qatar with two-time defending champion Boonen leading their squad. Boonen won two stages in the race, but a two-man breakaway in the race's second stage proved critical, as it afforded Wouter Mol and Geert Steurs the top two steps on the podium by more than a minute over the rest of the field. Boonen finished third overall.


2010 Quick-Step season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Quick Step came to the Giro with a squad headed by Cataldo. Seeldraeyers, who had won the youth classification in the 2009 Giro d'Italia, was kept off the squad in favor of the Tour de France. Weylandt was included with sprint victories in mind.


2010 Quick-Step season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
In stage 3, the second of two road race stages in the Netherlands, Weylandt was successful at avoiding crashes, including one with 30 km (19 mi) left to race that made for a selection of just 29 riders finishing the stage together. Weyldant sprinted Graeme Brown and Robert Förster to take the stage win. After the transfer to Italy, the squad finished in 16th place in the stage 4 team time trial, finishing with six riders 2'15" off the pace of stage winners Liquigas–Doimo. The squad was again active in stage 5.


2010 Quick-Step season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Pineau followed an early morning move from Bbox Bouygues Telecom rider Yukiya Arashiro, and they, along with Cofidis' Julien Fouchard formed the day's breakaway. The stage was flat, and in the final kilometers the sprinters' teams came to the front of the peloton to try to catch them. They did not time their move properly, however, and the three stayed by a margin of four seconds. Pineau won the sprint for the stage, and took the red jersey as points classification leader with this result.


2010 Quick-Step season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
The squad was largely quiet for the remainder of the Giro. Weylandt took seventh in a more full field sprint in stage 9. In stage 11, when 50 riders formed the day's breakaway and the favorites lost more than 13 minutes, Cataldo nearly took the squad's third victory. He and Pineau had both made the selection, but only Cataldo stayed at the front of the race toward the stage's end. Unable to bridge up to an attacking Evgeni Petrov in the stage's final kilometer, Cataldo was second on the day.


2010 Quick-Step season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Pineau was third in the stage 12 group sprint, taking the red jersey again for two days with this result. Samoilau rode the Monte Grappa climb in stage 14 with the second group on the road, leading them across the finish line 2'25" back of stage winner Vincenzo Nibali, for sixth on the day. Cataldo was ninth-best in the climbing time trial to Plan de Corones two stages later. In stage 19, Samoilau again led his group across the line, this time the third group on the road, for ninth place.


2010 Quick-Step season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Samoilau was the squad's highest-placed rider in the final overall standings, in 39th place at a deficit of one hour and 46 minutes to Giro champion Ivan Basso. Pineau won the Premio della Fuga classification for most kilometers spent in a breakaway of ten or fewer riders. The squad was 15th in the Trofeo Fast Team standings and 13th in the Trofeo Super Team.


2010 Quick-Step season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Boonen intended to start the Tour de France, but had to pull out with a knee injury exacerbated in the Tour de Suisse. Lefevere had hoped to replace Boonen with Weylandt, but the young sprinter was not on the 15-name list Lefevere had first submitted to Tour organizers ASO, so he was ineligible. Reda took Boonen's place at the Tour's start. The squad also included Chavanel, coming off a lackluster season to date which included a fractured skull sustained at Liège–Bastogne–Liège, and Pineau, coming off a strong Giro d'Italia which included a stage win. Seeldraeyers, best young rider at the 2009 Giro d'Italia, was the team's only general classification rider, but they did not expect him to be a serious contender.


2010 Quick-Step season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The team was very successful in stage 2, on a day when nearly every other team came away with riders nursing injuries. Chavanel made the morning breakaway and started a solo move for victory about 20 kilometers from the finish. Pineau had also made the breakaway and won the first four climbs, giving him the polka-dot jersey as leader of the mountains classification, before he pulled up and rejoined the peloton behind them.


2010 Quick-Step season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
After Chavanel had attacked the leading group and gotten free, fellow breakaway rider Francesco Gavazzi crashed on the Col du Stockeu and set off a chain reaction of crashes that involved some 60 riders from just about every team in the race. Uninvolved and likely unaware, Chavanel rode to an uncontested stage win. Race leader Fabian Cancellara negotiated with Tour officials to neutralize the stage behind Chavanel, and there was no aggressive riding from the peloton for the final few kilometers of the race, and no sprint for second place.


2010 Quick-Step season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Chavanel's nearly four-minute gap over the peloton nonetheless stood, giving him the yellow jersey as well as the stage win. Points classification points for all but Chavanel were also negated, meaning the Frenchman also took the green jersey. The squad also took the lead in the teams classification with this result, making it a very successful day for them. Chavanel was unable to maintain the race lead the next day in stage 3, which due to its inclusion of several cobbled sectors was expected to be very difficult and crash-ridden. He and Pineau both finished in the sixth large group on the road, losing four minutes to the stage winner. He slipped to fifth overall with this result.


2010 Quick-Step season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
After the peloton finished together in the next three mass sprint stages, Chavanel found his form again in stage 7. He and Pineau again both made the morning breakaway, with Pineau winning the first five climbs of the day before pulling up. On the fifth climb, the Col de la Croix de la Serra, the two of them forced the pace such that the leading group was fractured. Chavanel again rode to the stage win and yellow jersey alone, with a gap of nearly a minute over Rafael Valls in second.


2010 Quick-Step season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
While Chavanel had hoped to retain the jersey for several days after he first won it, he freely admitted after stage 7 that he was unlikely to hold it the next day in a stage that ended with a climb to Morzine-Avoriaz in the Alps. He indeed lost the jersey, finishing nearly 12 minutes back on the stage. Pineau lost the polka-dot jersey to Anthony Charteau after stage 9. The two had the same number of points, but Charteau held the tiebreaker for better placings on more difficult climbs.


2010 Quick-Step season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Pineau took it back after stage 10, out-climbing Charteau on the Côte de Laffrey, but lost it back for good after stage 12. In stage 16, Van de Walle and Barredo both made a nine-man breakaway, one which notably also included seven-time Tour champion Lance Armstrong, who had fallen well out of overall contention. Barredo tried a solo move from this group to get to the line first, but bonked well before the end of the stage, finishing 28 seconds back of the other eight at the finish. Van de Walle was seventh on the day.


2010 Quick-Step season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
That was as close at the team came to any further victories. Their highest-placed rider in the final overall standings was De Weert, in 18th place at a deficit of just under 22 minutes to Tour champion Alberto Contador. For his part, Seeldraeyers was 134th, nearly three and a half hours off Contador's winning time. The squad finished seventh in the teams classification.


2010 R League
The 2010 edition of R League is reserve league of 2010 K League. 2010 season was held from March 25 to October 7. In this season, Jeju United Reserve and Gangwon FC Reserve participate the league. Each team will be played 14 games in home and away.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy
The 2010 RAC Tourist Trophy was an auto race held at the Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire, Great Britain from 30 April–2 May. The event, the second round of the 2010 FIA GT1 World Championship season, was among the first to use the revised 5.900 km (3.666 mi) Arena layout of the Silverstone Circuit that was completed in early 2010. The GT1 series was part of the larger Silverstone Supercar 2010 event, sharing the weekend with the FIA GT3 European Championship, GT4 European Cup, and the British Formula 3 Championship. The Championship race also served to award an annual champion for RAC Tourist Trophy, awarded by the Royal Automobile Club.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy
The British manufacturer Aston Martin dominated much of the early event, winning pole position in Qualifying with Darren Turner and Tomáš Enge's Young Driver AMR entry before Hexis AMR swept the top two spots in the Qualifying Race, led by drivers Frédéric Makowiecki and Thomas Accary. Turner and Enge would then go on to win the Championship Race, but were later excluded from the race when their Aston Martin failed technical inspections.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy
This, as well as a time penalty for a Hexis Aston Martin, promoted initial third-place finishers Jamie Campbell-Walter and Warren Hughes of Sumo Power Nissan to the race victory and the award of the Tourist Trophy. Aston Martin settled for second, while Lamborghini earned their first podium in the championship with a third place.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy, Background
Following the opening round in Abu Dhabi, the Nissan teams of Sumo Power GT and Swiss Racing Team voiced their opinions on the balance of performance which was used in Abu Dhabi. The teams believed that the tests held prior to race has unfairly allowed the Nissan GT-R to be too hindered heavily weighted compared to its competitors, receiving 30 kg (66 lb) of extra ballast weight. Sumo Power and Swiss Racing left Abu Dhabi without earning any championship points.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy, Background
Allen Orchard of Sumo Power GT stated that the team planned to protest to the FIA, while Othmar Welti of Swiss Racing Team even threatened to boycott the event if the ballast remained unchanged. On 27 April the FIA made further changes to the balance of performance, making alterations to the weights of five of the six manufacturers. Corvette and Maserati both gained extra ballast while Aston Martin, Lamborghini, and Nissan all shed some of their previous ballast weight. The Lamborghini and Maserati also had air restrictor modifications made.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy, Background
Besides the adjustments made to the balance of performance, four entries also enter Silverstone carrying further ballast due to their success in Abu Dhabi. The No. 5 Matech Ford which won the Championship Race in Abu Dhabi will carry 40 kg (88 lb), while the No. 13 and No. 14 Phoenix Corvettes and No. 1 Vitaphone Maserati will also have success weight. The field for the event has also been diminished by one with the absence of the No. 6 Matech Ford following its heavy crash in qualifying at Abu Dhabi and the continuing recovery of its driver Natacha Gachnang. Matech drivers Romain Grosjean and Thomas Mutsch let the Drivers Championship with 33 points, five ahead of Phoenix drivers Marc Hennerici and Andreas Zuber. Phoenix Racing / Carsport meanwhile led the Teams Championship with 41 points ahead of Matech's 31.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy, Background
Following the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull that caused disruption to air travel in Europe, the organiser of the FIA GT1 World Championship, Stéphane Ratel Organisation, expressed worries that cargo planes carrying cars and equipment would not be able to be transported to the United Kingdom. Nonetheless, two cargo planes were able to land in Luxembourg on the morning of 22 April and two charter flights arrived in Austria later that day, allowing the race to continue as scheduled.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy, Background
The 2010 running of the RAC Tourist Trophy included four former winners of the event, included two-time defending winner Karl Wendlinger attempting to win his third in succession. Vitaphone drivers Michael Bartels and Andrea Bertolini previously shared the win in 2006 while Peter Kox won the event in 2005.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy, Qualifying
The GT1 qualifying session was held early on Saturday, 1 May, with all 23 participants taking part in the initial twenty-minute first session. By the end of the first quarter of the session, local driver Oliver Gavin in the No. 12 Mad-Croc Corvette led the field with the fastest time of the weekend, the first lap under the 2:01 mark, then breaking under an even 2:00 within his next few laps.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy, Qualifying
Halfway through the session the No. 37 Münnich Lamborghini of Christophe Bouchut and No. 3 Swiss Nissan of Karl Wendlinger came into contact with one another at the Brooklands corner, leading both cars to spin to a stop but eventually resume. With less than four minutes left in the session, the No. 8 Young Driver Aston Martin, driven by Stefan Mücke, went to the top of the time charts with a lap of 1:59.694 where it would remain until the session ended.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy, Qualifying
On the final lap of the session, Jos Menten in the Reiter Lamborghini climbed out of the bottom seven times, staving off elimination. The seven slowest cars at the end of the session, which are knocked out of the qualifying session per GT1 regulations, included both Marc VDS Fords, both Münnich Lamborghinis, both Swiss Nissans, and the No. 11 Mad-Croc Corvette.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy, Qualifying
For the first time in the FIA GT1 World Championship, qualifying reached the second session, with the sixteen remaining cars running for fifteen minutes. Anthony Kumpen, driving the No. 14 Phoenix Corvette led the session early before having the top spot taken by a quick succession of drivers. Michael Bartels initially took the lead in the No. 1 Vitaphone Maserati, then was overtaken on the time charts by Peter Dumbreck in the No. 23 Sumo Power Nissan, before Frank Kechele in the No. 25 Reiter Lamborghini led the field less than a minute later.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy, Qualifying
With approximately three minutes left in the session, Jonathan Hirschi put the No. 10 Hexis Aston Martin on top with a time of 1:59.796 and would be able to maintain the first position as the session came to an end. Teams knocked out at the end of the session included both Phoenix Corvettes and both Hegersport Maseratis, the No. 2 Vitaphone Maserati and No. 12 Mad-Croc Corvette, as well as the championship-leading No 5. Matech Ford and the No. 8 Young Driver Aston Martin which had been quickest in the first qualifying session.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy, Qualifying
Eight cars remained for the final ten-minute session, with Frédéric Makowiecki in the No. 9 Hexis Aston Martin setting the early pace with the first lap under 2:00. As the qualifying session ended and the cars completed their final flying lap, Darren Turner, who only brought the No. 7


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy, Qualifying
Young Driver Aston Martin to the circuit in the final five minutes, earned pole position with a lap of 1:58.808, over four tenths of a second ahead of the No. 9 Hexis Aston Martin, giving Aston Martin the lead of all three qualifying sessions and a lockout of the front row of the grid, ahead of a Sumo Power Nissan and Vitaphone Maserati on the second row.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy, Qualifying, Qualifying result
For qualifying, Driver 1 participates in the first and third sessions while Driver 2 participates in only the second session. The fastest lap for each session is indicated with bold.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy, Races, Qualifying race
From the rolling start, the pole sitting No. 7 Young Driver Aston Martin of Tomáš Enge led the field as they battled into the first corner, jumping out ahead of the No 9 Hexis Aston Martin and No. 1 Vitaphone Maserati. Further down the field the No. 33 Hegersport Maserati spun in the middle of the first turn after hitting one of the Reiter Lamborghinis, which then made contact with the No. 8 Young Driver Aston Martin.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy, Races, Qualifying race
The Aston Martin's left rear tyre was cut down by the contact and Christoffer Nygaard was forced to make an early pit stop for a new tyre. The Hegersport Maserati meanwhile, although briefly continuing, was forced to enter the team's garage several laps later with engine problems. On the tenth lap of the race, Abu Dhabi race winner Thomas Mutsch spun the No. 5 Matech Ford into a gravel trap outside Maggotts corner while defending 13th place. The Ford would lose a lap while being extracted and returning to the race.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy, Races, Qualifying race
By the time the pit window opened in the 25th minute, Enge led the field by over two seconds. Darren Turner was able to take over the No. 7 Aston Martin during the team's pit stop and retained the race lead but minutes later officials announced drive-thru penalties for the No. 7, No. 23 Sumo Power Nissan, and No. 34 Hegersport Maserati for all cutting the pit lane entry. All three returned to the pits to serve their penalty on the next lap, but while entering the pits Turner cut the entry and earned a stop-and-go penalty. After the two penalties the Young Driver Aston Martin had fallen to seventh, with the No 9 Hexis Aston Martin now leading. During pit stop window the No. 10 Hexis Aston Martin managed to take over second after the No. 1 Vitaphone Maserati stalled in the pits.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy, Races, Qualifying race
During the closing ten minutes of the race the two Swiss Nissans were attempting to catch the No. 37 Münnich Lamborghini for fourteenth place, but collided with one another in the Vale corner and spun Karl Wendlinger in the No. 3 car. Meanwhile, at the front of the field Darren Turner had begun to reclaim lost positions by passing the No. 23 Sumo Power Nissan for sixth place, then the No. 14 Phoenix Corvette for fifth. Turner would eventually claim the fourth position in the final two laps but would miss out on a podium finish for the race end. Hexis driver Frédéric Makowiecki led the field across the line for the race win, ahead of his teammate Clivio Piccione in second place, with the No. 1 Vitaphone Maserati in third.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy, Races, Championship race
The Sunday Championship Race was held under colder damp conditions than Saturday's Qualifying Race, with the grid lining up in their finishing positions from the previous day. Four cars were awarded penalties by the race stewards following Saturday's race and demoted five grid positions from original position; both Mad-Croc Corvettes as well as the No. 24 Reiter Lamborghini were demoted, while the No. 8 Young Driver Aston Martin was already starting from the back of the field.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy, Races, Championship race
At the start of the race Hexis' Jonathan Hirschi led into the first corner, followed by teammate and polesitter Frédéric Makowiecki and the fellow Aston Martin of Darren Turner. Andrea Bertolini in the No. 1 Vitaphone Maserati slipped from his third place grid position to seventh. Towards the back of the field Romain Grosjean was hit from behind by the No. 33 Hegersport Maserati, bouncing the Ford into the side of the No. 8 Young Driver Aston Martin and Grosjean to spin to the outside of the first turn.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy, Races, Championship race
Suspension damaged in the accident would render the Ford unable to restart the race. During the second lap Hirschi ran wide at the Stowe corner and allowed Makoweicki to take over the race lead, while Warren Hughes took fourth place from Jos Menten's Reiter Lamborghini. As the race entered the third lap, the No. 8 Young Driver Aston Martin was forced to make a pit stop to replace a tyre punctured in the earlier incident while the No. 14 Phoenix Racing Corvette began to billow smoke on the Hangar Straight. Mike Hezemans spun the Corvette and came to a stop where the rear of car became enveloped in flames. While Hezemans successfully exited the car, the clean-up by track officials required the intervention of the safety car, neutralizing the race.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy, Races, Championship race
The safety car was withdrawn on the seventh lap and Makowiecki once again led the field.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy, Post-event
Despite failing to finish the championship race and earning no points in either race Thomas Mutsch and Romain Grosjean were able to sustain their lead in the Drivers Championship by a margin of five points, aided by a lack of points earned by Marc Hennerici and Andreas Zuber. However podium finishes in the Qualifying and Championship races have elevated Hexis drivers Frédéric Makowiecki and Thomas Accary and Vitaphone drivers Michael Bartels and Andrea Bertolini to even points with Hennerici and Zuber. Jamie Campbell-Walter and Warren Hughes, by winning the Championship race and earning their first points for the season, now sit fifth in the Drivers Championship.


2010 RAC Tourist Trophy, Post-event
As in the Drivers Championship, Phoenix Racing / Carsport retained the Teams Championship lead without gaining any points at Silverstone. Vitaphone Racing Team moved from third to second after earning points in both the Qualifying and Championship Races, while Hexis AMR's three podiums in the two races promoted them to third in the standings.


2010 RCNJC season
The 2010 RCNJC season was the second and final season for the Rugby Canada National Junior Championship.


2010 RCNJC season, Standings, Eastern Conference
Note: 4 points for a win, 2 points for a draw, 1 bonus point for a loss by 7 points or less, 1 bonus point for scoring 4 tries or more.


2010 RF12
2010 RF12 is a very small asteroid, classified as near-Earth object of the Apollo group, that passed between Earth and the Moon on 8 September 2010, at 21:12 UTC, approaching Earth within 79,000 kilometres (49,000 mi) above Antarctica. It is listed on the Sentry Risk Table as the asteroid with the greatest known probability (5%) of impacting Earth. On 5 September 2096 the asteroid will approach the Earth and the line of variation (LOV) passes through where the Earth will be. The asteroid was discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey near Tucson, Arizona on 5 September 2010 along with 2010 RX30.


2010 RF12, Description
NASA's Near Earth Program estimates its size to be 7 meters (23 feet) in diameter with a mass of around 500 tonnes. 2010 RF12 will make many more close approaches to Earth, with the approach of 5–6 September 2095 having a 4.6% chance (1 in 22) of colliding with Earth. The nominal JPL Earth approach in 2095 is 0.00026 AU (39,000 km; 24,000 mi) with Earth having a radius of approximately 6,400 kilometres (4,000 mi).


2010 RF12, Description
The nominal NEODyS orbit has the asteroid passing 0.00022 AU (33,000 km; 20,000 mi) from Earth on 6 September 2095, with an apparent magnitude of ~12. Due to the asteroid's relatively small size, there is very little danger of harm arising from such an impact; rather there would be an impressive fireball as the rock air bursts in the upper atmosphere and pebble sized fragments would likely fall to the ground at terminal velocity. The power of the airburst would be somewhere between the 2–4 m Sutter's Mill meteorite and the 17 m Chelyabinsk meteor.


2010 RF12, Possible August 2022 recovery
2010 RF12 should be recoverable around its early August 2022 opposition and before the 23 September close approach of about 0.07 AU (10,000,000 km; 6,500,000 mi). It will reach an apparent magnitude of +24.0 to +24.7, and its position will have an uncertainty of roughly 10 arcminutes, 1/3rd the size of the full moon and within the field of view of imaging cameras on large telescopes. It should be detectable during that approach by telescopes of least 2 meters diameter in good observing sites, and the improvement of the orbit from the precise August 2022 position will verify or rule out possible future impacts for the next century or so.


2010 RFL Championship
The 2010 Rugby Football League Championship is known as Co-operative Championship due to sponsorship by The Co-operative Group.


2010 RFL Championship
The 2010 Co-operative Championship is a semi-professional rugby league football competition played in the United Kingdom and France one tier below the first tier Super League. The two worst performing teams during the season, with the exception of Toulouse Olympique, will be relegated to Championship 1.


2010 RFL Championship
There is no automatic promotion from this league to Super League, which uses a licensing system renewed every three years. Qualifying for the Grand Final or winning the Northern Rail Cup is a prerequisite for Championship clubs to be able to apply for license in the next round of applications for the 2012–14 period.


2010 RFL Championship
All of the teams in the 2010 Co-operative Championship will also compete in the 2010 Challenge Cup where they will enter in the third round. All of the teams, with the exception of Toulouse Olympique will compete in the 2010 Northern Rail Cup which starts before the Co-operative Championship with the finals held mid season.


2010 RFL Championship
Featherstone Rovers finished the league in first place after the regular season but were beaten by Halifax in the grand final 23-22


2010 RFL Championship, Teams
This competition features mostly the same teams as it did in 2009. The Dewsbury Rams and Keighley Cougars were promoted from the 2009 Championship One. The Leigh Centurions and Doncaster were meant to be relegated. However, the chairman of Gateshead Thunder wound up the club and they were reformed by the community. This breach of insolvency laws caused them to be relegated and allowed Leigh to stay in the Co-operative Championship.


2010 RFL Championship, Rule changes, Player Safety in Tackle
The RFL announced two new rule interpretations intended to increase player safety in the tackle:


2010 RFL Championship, Fairplay Index
The Fair Play Index was launched in 2007 as part of The RFL's new Official Partnership with Frontline Bathrooms. The Fair Play Index (known as the Frontline Fairplay Index through sponsorship) will be putting standards of discipline under the spotlight throughout the 2010 Co-operative Championship campaign.


2010 RFL Championship, Fairplay Index
At the end of the regular season the teams that finish top of the Frontline Fair Play Index will be presented with a specially engraved trophy and £5,000 prize from Frontline Bathrooms.


2010 RFL Championship, Fairplay Index, 2010 Fairplay Index
Note: Stats are correct as of Round 7 of the Co-Operative Championship on 16 April 2010.


2010 RFL Championship, Disciplinary record
The following table lists all incidents that were reviewed by the Rugby Football League during 2010 Co-Operative Championship, which were later deemed guilty and resulted in disciplinary action. The offenses were graded, depending on severity, in alphabetical order, "A" being less severe than "B".


2010 RFL Championship, League table
This table is correct as of 16 September 2010 (6:12pm). Source:


2010 RFL Championship, League table
Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: For win = 3; For draw = 2; For loss by 12 points or fewer = 1.


2010 RFL Championship, Play-Offs
The play-offs commence following the conclusion of 22 round regular season and include the top six sides from the league.


2010 RFL Championship, Play-Offs
The 2010 play-offs culminate in a grand final to be held at Halliwell Jones Stadium in Warrington, home of Super League side Warrington Wolves.


2010 RFL Championship results
This is a list of the 2010 Rugby Football League Championship. The RFL Championship is known as Co-operative Championship due to sponsorship by The Co-operative Group.


2010 RFL Championship results
The Co-operative Championship is a semi-professional rugby league football competition played in the United Kingdom and France one tier below the first tier Super League. The two worst performing teams during the season, with the exception of Toulouse Olympique, will be relegated to Championship 1.


2010 RFL Championship results
There is no automatic promotion from this league to Super League, which uses a licensing system renewed every three years. Qualifying for the Grand Final is a prerequisite for Championship clubs to be able to apply for license in the next round of applications for the 2012–14 period.


2010 RFL Championship results
The 2010 Co-Operative Championship season will consist of two stages. The regular season is played over 22 round-robin fixtures, in which each of the eleven teams involved in the competition will play each other once at home and once away. In the 2010 Co-Operative Championship, a win is worth three points in the table, a draw is worth one two points apiece, and a loss by 12 points or fewer is worth 1 bonus point.


2010 RFL Championship results
The league leaders at the end of the regular season will receive the league leaders trophy, but the Championship is decided through the second stage of the season via a playoffs system. The top six teams in the table will contest to play in the Grand Final, the winners of which are crowned 2010 Co-Operative Champions.


2010 RFL Championship results, Regular season
The 2010 season started on 25 February, when Leigh Centurions hosted  the Barrow Raiders.


2010 RFL Championship results, Regular season, Round 4
Chris Spurr (3) Jessie Joe Parker (3) Kyle Briggs (3) Liam Campbell (3)


2010 RFL Championship results, League table
This table is correct as of 25th August 2010 (1:12pm). Source:  Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: For win = 3; For draw = 2; For loss by 12 points or fewer = 1. Note: Keighley started the season on −9 points for going into administration.


2010 RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards
The 33rd RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards (Chinese: 第三十三屆十大中文金曲得獎) was held on January 7, 2011 for the 2010 music season.


2010 RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards, Top 10 song awards
The top 10 songs (十大中文金曲) of 2010 are as follows.


2010 RX30
2010 RX30 is a micro-asteroid, classified as near-Earth object of the Aten group. On 8 September 2010 at 09:51 UTC, it passed between the Earth and the Moon approaching Earth within 248000kilometres above Japan.


2010 RX30
NASA estimated its size to be 12 metres in diameter with a mass of around 2500 tonnes.


2010 RX30
The asteroid was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson, Arizona on 5 September 2010, along with 2010 RF12.


2010 Rabobank season
The 2010 season for the Rabobank cycling team began in January with the Tour Down Under and ended in October at the Giro di Lombardia. As a UCI ProTour team, they were automatically invited and obliged to attend every event in the ProTour.


2010 Rabobank season
The team's manager was former team member Erik Breukink, in his seventh season in the role. The team's ridership was almost entirely unchanged from 2009, with a small number of riders departing and the only arrivals being promotions from the Rabobank continental team.


2010 Rabobank season, One-day races
Freire scored the team's first victory of the season in the Trofeo Cala Millor, part of the Vuelta a Mallorca quasi-stage race, as he outsprinted Tour Down Under stars André Greipel and Manuel Cardoso.


2010 Rabobank season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Menchov, the 2009 Giro d'Italia champion, announced in October 2009 that he would not defend his championship in 2010. The team thus entered the Giro without any expectations of contending for another overall victory. Mollema rode as the squad leader. Freire was supposed to start the race, with aims of winning one of the flat road race stages in the team's home country, the Netherlands, but he pulled out of the race two days before it started due to respiratory illness. Kruijswijk took Freire's place on the squad. The squad wore special jerseys for the Giro, incorporating the colors of the Italian flag and the logo for Right To Play, which the team supports. The jerseys were later auctioned off with the proceeds going to Right To Play.


2010 Rabobank season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
As expected, the squad was active in the opening to the Giro in the Netherlands. Van Emden was ninth best in the stage 1 individual time trial, 9 seconds off Bradley Wiggins' winning time. Flens made the breakaway in stage 2, and Brown took eighth in the sprint for the finish line. The next day of racing was similar, with Stamsnijder making the morning break and Brown finishing second just behind Wouter Weylandt in the sprint. Weening was tenth in the overall standings prior to the transfer to Italy, 16 seconds behind the race leader.


2010 Rabobank season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Brown led the points classification and wore the red jersey at this point. The squad was 11th in the stage 4 team time trial, just over a minute of Liquigas–Doimo's winning pace. Brown was one of the many sprinters upset by a three-rider breakaway just surviving to the finish in stage 5. He was seventh on this stage, but lost the red jersey to Jérôme Pineau who was up the road in the breakaway and won the stage. Van Emden contested the depleted group sprint in stage 9, finishing ninth.


2010 Rabobank season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
The squad was then quiet for several days, but in the final stages in the Dolomites both Mollema and Kruijswijk turned in solid rides. In stage 14, which went over Monte Grappa, Mollema rode with the second group on the road, finishing the stage seventh. Kruijswijk made a winning breakaway three stages later and had a chance for victory at Pejo Terme. Kruijswijk, Danilo Hondo, and Damien Monier were the last three riders together at the head of the race and finished well clear of the others.


2010 Rabobank season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Monier soloed to victory more than 30 seconds ahead, and Hondo left Kruijswijk behind in the stage's final kilometer, leaving him third. Brown contested the sprint in stage 18, the Giro's last mass finish, coming away sixth. Mollema was eighth in the Giro's most climbing-intensive day, stage 20, riding the Passo di Gavia and Passo del Tonale with or near the Giro elite. In the final day's time trial, Stamsnijder took tenth.


2010 Rabobank season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Despite not expecting their squad to contend in the overall standings, Rabobank was one of only three squads (the others being Liquigas–Doimo and Ag2r–La Mondiale) to finish with three riders in the top 20 overall. These were Mollema in 12th, Ardila in 15th, and Kruijswijk in 18th. Stamsnijder won the Giro's TV classification for intermediate sprints (TV being short for traguardo volante, or "flying sprint"). The squad also placed well in both teams classifications, finishing second in the Trofeo Fast Team and third in the Trofeo Super Team.


2010 Rabobank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Menchov and Gesink co-captained the squad sent to the Tour de France. Menchov was often mentioned as a contender for overall victory, as he sought the Tour title to complete the career sweep of the Grand Tours. Menchov had fallen ill in May at the Tour de Romandie, but reported regaining his strength during the Critérium du Dauphiné and believed himself to be in optimal form for the Tour. Freire was also named to the squad, with the intention of acting as a free agent (a sprinter without his own leadout train) in the flat stages. The team hoped for a mountain stage win and possibly a high overall placing from Gesink.


2010 Rabobank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The team was mostly quiet in the race's first week. Menchov rode poorly in the prologue time trial, nearly a minute off the winning time of Fabian Cancellara and five seconds worse than Gesink, despite the fact that Menchov is generally the far superior time trialist. In stage 2, when dozens of riders from nearly every team crashed on a slippery descent of the Col du Stockeu in Spa, Gesink crashed and broke a bone in his right arm. It was reported as likely that he would withdraw from the Tour, but he rode on. Freire had difficulties in the early flat stages, tenth in stage 4 the closest he came to a victory.


2010 Rabobank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
In stage 7 to Station des Rousses in the Jura, the first stage with any significant quantity of climbing, Menchov and Gesink both finished with the peloton, a result which moved Menchov into tenth overall after being distant in the overall classification to that point. The next day, in a more climbing-intensive stage, Menchov and Gesink finished with the second group on the road, ceding 10 seconds to Andy Schleck and Samuel Sánchez but gaining time against everyone else in the race. This result moved Menchov up to fifth overall, and Gesink to 11th, up from 23rd.


2010 Rabobank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
In the next stage, one which featured one of the Tour's hardest climbs, the Col de la Madeleine, Menchov and Gesink rode most of the stage together. They lost two minutes to Schleck and Alberto Contador and effectively any chance to win the race, and also lost one minute and ten seconds to Sánchez, but gained time against nearly everyone else in the race. They occupied fourth (Menchov) and seventh (Gesink) after the stage.


2010 Rabobank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
During stage 14, Menchov and Sánchez pulled back 14 seconds from Schleck and Contador, after the two leaders engaged in a bizarre seeming track stand during the stage's final climb to Ax-3-Domaines. They still sat over two minutes behind them in the overall classification, an effectively insurmountable time gap. Gesink also passed Levi Leipheimer in this stage to move up to sixth overall, as the American lost 45 seconds to Gesink's group.


2010 Rabobank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
In stage 15, Menchov and Sánchez were tangentially involved in the day's greater controversy. While the group of overall favorites was climbing the hors catégorie Port de Balès, the chain on race leader Schleck's bicycle slipped. At the exact moment that happened, Contador attacked and got clear of the group. While Schleck was unable to respond due to his mechanical trouble, Menchov and Sánchez, along with five others, followed Contador and finished 39 seconds clear of the Luxembourger, though their positions relative to both of the leading riders was essentially unchanged.


2010 Rabobank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
In the race's queen stage, stage 17 ending at the Col du Tourmalet, Menchov and Gesink again finished together. The lost a minute and 40 seconds to Schleck and Contador, who finished together at the head of the race, and eight seconds to Sánchez. This gave Sánchez a 21-second lead over Menchov for the third step on the podium, but with a 52 km (32 mi) individual time trial still to contest, Menchov had good odds of overtaking him. During that time trial, a drastic change in wind direction occurred.


2010 Rabobank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
This made it so earlier starters posted considerably better times than those who came later. Contador, for example, who had won the long time trial in the 2009 Tour de France, was 35th on the day, 5 minutes and 43 seconds off the pace. Menchov, however, was 11th, taking time out of nearly every other rider in the race. The result moved him up to third overall, a position he held in the Tour's largely ceremonial finale the next day. The squad finished third in the teams classification.


2010 Race of Champions
The 2010 Race of Champions was the 23rd running of the event, and took place over 27–28 November 2010 at the Esprit Arena in Düsseldorf, Germany. It was the first time the event had been held in Germany since 1989, when it was held at the Nürburgring.


2010 Race of Champions
Team Germany won a fourth consecutive Nations Cup with Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel defeating Team Britain's Andy Priaulx and Jason Plato 2–1 in the final. In the driver-by-driver Race of Champions itself, Portugal's Filipe Albuquerque defeated multiple World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb 2–1 in the final.


2010 Racquetball World Championships
The 15th Racquetball World Championships were held in Seoul (South Korea) from August 13 to 21, 2010, with 16 men's national teams and 11 women's national teams; and several players in the Singles and Doubles competition.


2010 Racquetball World Championships
The incumbent champions in men's and women's singles were Americans Rocky Carson and Rhonda Rajsich, respectively, and they successfully defended their titles in Seoul.


2010 Racquetball World Championships
In doubles, the Americans successfully defended the men's doubles title, and Mitch Williams was part of the winning team again, although in 2010 he won with Ben Croft while in 2008 Jason Thoerner was his partner.


2010 Racquetball World Championships
In women's doubles, Paola Longoria and Samantha Salas broke a 22-year streak of American victories by defeating the defending champions Jackie Paraiso and Aimee Ruiz and claiming the first women's doubles title for Mexico.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season
The 2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season officially began on January 1 with the start of the 2010 ATP World Tour. Nadal called it his best year. The 2010 season Nadal became the first male player in tennis history to win Grand Slam tournaments on three different surfaces (clay, grass and hard court) in the same calendar year.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Capital World Tennis Championship
Nadal began the year by participating in the Capitala World Tennis Championship in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He defeated compatriot David Ferrer (7-6(3), 6-3) to reach his second final in the exhibition tournament. In the final, Nadal defeated Robin Söderling (7-6(3), 7-5).


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Qatar ExxonMobil Open
Secondly, Nadal participated in the Australian Open warm-up tournament, the Qatar ExxonMobil Open ATP 250 event in Doha, where he lost in the final. He defeated the Italians Simone Bolelli in the first round (6-3, 6-3) and Potito Starace (6-2, 6-2) in the second round. In the quarter-finals, the Spaniard defeated the Belgian Steve Darcis: 6-1, 2-0(ret). After that, in the semi-final, Nadal defeated the fifth seed Viktor Troicki (6-1, 6-3), winning eleven games in a row. In the final, Nadal lost to Russian Nikolay Davydenko (6-0, 6-7(8), 4-6), despite dominating the opening set and holding two match points in the second set. Davydenko had also defeated Roger Federer in the semi-final before facing Nadal in the final.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Australian Open
In the first round of the Australian Open, Nadal defeated the Australian Peter Luczak (7-6(0), 6-1, 6-4). In the second round, he beat Lukáš Lacko (6-2, 6-2, 6-2). In the third round, he was tested by Philipp Kohlschreiber, finally beating him in four sets (6-4, 6-2, 2-6, 7-5). In the fourth round, he beat the Croatian Ivo Karlović, (6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4). In the quarter-finals, Nadal pulled out in the third set against Andy Murray, having lost the first two sets (6-3, 7-6(2)). After having his knee examined, doctors told Nadal to take two weeks of rest followed by two weeks of rehabilitation.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Australian Open
In singles, Nadal reached the semi-finals at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells as the current defending champion. However, the eventual winner, Ivan Ljubičić, defeated him in three sets. He and López won the doubles title by defeating the number one seeds Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić. This boosted Nadal's doubles ranking 175 places, going from number 241 to being number 66 in the world. After Indian Wells, Nadal reached the semi-finals of Sony Ericsson Open where he lost to the eventual champion Andy Roddick in three sets.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Monte Carlo Rolex Masters
Nadal reached the final of the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters in Monaco after beating the fellow Spaniard David Ferrer (6-3, 6-2) in the semi-finals. This was Nadal's first tour final since Doha earlier that year. He won the final with a (6-0, 6-1) score over his compatriot Fernando Verdasco. He lost fourteen games throughout all five matches, the fewest he had ever lost en route to a championship, and the tournament's final was the shortest Masters 1000 final in terms of games. With this win, Nadal became the first player in open history to win a tournament title for six straight years.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Monte Carlo Rolex Masters
Unlike previous years, Nadal chose to skip the Barcelona tournament despite the fact that he was the five-time defending champion.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Internazional BNL d'Italia
His next tournament was the 2010 Internazionali BNL d'Italia. He defeated Philipp Kohlschreiber, Victor Hănescu, and Stanislas Wawrinka all in straight sets to win his 57th straight match, in April. In the semi-finals, he faced a resilient Ernests Gulbis, who defeated Roger Federer earlier in the tournament and battled Nadal into a three-set-match for the first time in this clay court season. Nadal eventually prevailed with a (6-4, 3-6, 6-4) in two hours and forty minutes. Then he defeated compatriot David Ferrer in the final (7-5, 6-2) for his fifth title at Rome, to equal Andre Agassi's record of winning 17 ATP Masters 1000 titles.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Madrid Open
Nadal then entered the 2010 Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open, where he had finished runner-up the previous year. By being one of the top eight seeds, he received a bye in the first round. In the second round, he defeated the qualifier Oleksandr Dolgopolov, Jr. in straight sets. He then played the six-foot-nine American John Isner, and Nadal comfortably came through in straight sets, (7-5, 6-4). In the quarter-finals, he defeated Gaël Monfils (6-1, 6-3) and then his countryman Nicolás Almagro, who was playing the first Masters 1000 semifinal of his career, (4-6, 6-2, 6-2).


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Madrid Open
The first set of his match against Almagro would be just the second set he lost on clay courts up to this point in 2010. Nadal then defeated his longtime rival Roger Federer (6-4, 7-6(5)), avenging his 2009 final loss to Federer. The win gave him his 18th Masters 1000 title, breaking the all-time record. He became the first player to win all three clay court Masters 1000 titles in a single year and the first player to win three consecutive Masters events. Nadal moved back to No. 2 in the rankings the following day.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, French Open
Entering the French Open, many were expecting another Nadal-Federer final. However, this became impossible when rival Robin Söderling defeated Federer (3-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4) in the quarter-finals. The failure of Federer to reach the semi-finals would allow Nadal to regain the world number 1 ranking, if he were to win the tournament. Nadal advanced to the final and defeated Soderling (6-4, 6-2, 6-4) to win the French Open.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, French Open
The win gave Nadal his seventh Grand Slam, tying him with John McEnroe, John Newcombe and Mats Wilander on the all-time list, and allowed Nadal to reclaim the position of ATP World Number One; denying his biggest rival Roger Federer the all-time record for weeks at No. 1. With this win, Nadal became the first man to win the three Masters series on clay and the French Open; this was dubbed by the media as the "Clay Slam".


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, French Open
This victory at Roland Garros marked the second time that Nadal had won the French Open without dropping a single set (tying the record held by Björn Borg). With the win in Paris he also booked his place at the World Tour Finals in London, and became the first player to win five French Open titles in six years.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, French Open
As of 2017, Nadal's clay season was the second most successful in his career, as he earned 5,000 points after winning 4 titles. This was only surpassed by his 2013 season, in which Nadal earned 5,100 points after winning Barcelona, Madrid, Rome and the French Open, and being runner-up in Monte-Carlo.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Aegon Championships
In June, Nadal entered the Aegon Championships—which he won in 2008—at the prestigious Queen's Club. He played singles and doubles at this grass court tournament as a warm up for the Wimbledon Championships. By being one of the top eight seeds, he received a bye in the first round. In the second round, where he played his first match on grass since winning Wimbledon in 2008, he defeated the Brazilian Marcos Daniel easily in two sets, (6-2, 6-2). In the third round, he played Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan, whom he defeated (7-6(4), 4-6, 6-4), to advance to the quarter-finals. However, in the quarter-finals he was defeated by his compatriot Feliciano López (6-7(5), 4-6), and left the competition without a title.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Wimbledon
At the 2010 Wimbledon Championships Nadal started by beating Kei Nishikori (6-2, 6-4, 6-4) in the first round. In the second round, he fought hard and succeeded against Robin Haase after five sets (5-7, 6-2, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3). In the third round, he defeated Philipp Petzschner. The match was a 5-set thriller with Nadal triumphing (6-4, 4-6, 6-7, 6-2, 6-3). During this match, Nadal was warned twice for receiving coaching from his coach and uncle, Toni Nadal, resulting in a $2,000 fine by Wimbledon officials.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Wimbledon
Allegedly, encouraging words for Nadal shouted during the match were some sort of coaching code signal. After that, Nadal comfortably beat the French Paul-Henri Mathieu in three sets (6-4, 6-2, 6-2). In the quarter-finals, he got past the Swedish Robin Söderling in four sets (3-6, 6-3, 7-6(7-4), 6-1). He then defeated Andy Murray in straight sets (6-4, 7-6(8-6), 6-4) to reach his fourth Wimbledon final.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Wimbledon
In the 2010 Wimbledon men's title, Nadal won the tournament by defeating Tomáš Berdych in straight sets (6-3, 7-5, 6-4). After the win, Rafa said, "It is more than a dream for me" and thanked the crowd for being both kind and supportive to him during this match and also in the semi-final against Andy Murray. The win gave him a second Wimbledon title and an eighth career major title, at the age of 24.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Rogers Cup
In his first hard-court tournament since Miami, Nadal advanced to the semi-finals of the Rogers Cup, along with No. 2 Novak Djokovic, No. 3 Roger Federer, and No. 4 Andy Murray, after coming back from a one-set deficit to defeat the German Philipp Kohlschreiber (3-6, 6-3, 6-4). In the semifinal, defending champion Andy Murray defeated Nadal (6-3, 6-4), becoming the only player to triumph over the Spaniard twice in 2010.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Rogers Cup
Nadal also competed in the doubles tournament with Novak Djokovic in a one-time, high-profile partnership, not seen since 1976 when Jimmy Connors and Arthur Ashe as World No.1 and No.2 paired up, making a double dream team. However, they lost in the first round to Canadians Milos Raonic and Vasek Pospisil.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Rogers Cup
The next week, Nadal was the top seed at the Cincinnati Masters, losing in the quarter-finals to 2006 Australian Open finalist Marcos Baghdatis.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, US Open
At the 2010 US Open, Nadal was the top seed for the second time in three years. He defeated Teymuraz Gabashvili, Denis Istomin, Gilles Simon, 23rd seed Feliciano López, 8th seed Fernando Verdasco, and 12th seed Mikhail Youzhny, all without dropping a set, to reach his first US Open final. By doing that he became the 8th man in the Open Era to reach the final of all four majors at the age 24; the second youngest to ever do so, behind only Jim Courier.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, US Open
In the final, he defeated 3rd seed Novak Djokovic (6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2), which completed the Career Grand Slam for Nadal, and he became the second male after Andre Agassi to complete a Career Golden Slam. Nadal also became the first man to win Grand Slams on clay, grass, and hard court surfaces in the same year (later accomplished by Djokovic in 2021 after winning the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon Championships), and the first to win the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open in the same year since Rod Laver in 1969.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, US Open
With the US Open win, Nadal became, along with Mats Wilander, the only male players to win at least two Grand Slams each on clay, grass, and hard court in their careers (Novak Djokovic later completed this feat with his second French Open title in 2021). After all that, he also became the first left-handed man to win the US Open since John McEnroe in 1984. This victory also clinched the year-end number one ranking for 2010, making Nadal the third player (after Ivan Lendl in 1989 and Roger Federer in 2009) to regain the year-end number one ranking after having lost it.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Thailand Open
Nadal began his Asian tour at 2010 PTT Thailand Open in Bangkok, where he reached the semi-finals, losing to his compatriot Guillermo García-López.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Japan Open
He was able to regroup, and at the 2010 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships in Tokyo (debut), he defeated Santiago Giraldo, Milos Raonic and Dmitry Tursunov. In the semi-finals against Viktor Troicki, Nadal saved two match points in the deciding-set tiebreaker, to win it 9-7 in the end. In the final, Nadal comfortably defeated Gaël Monfils (6-1, 7-5) for his 7th title of the season.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Shanghai Rolex Masters
Nadal next played in the 2010 Shanghai Rolex Masters, in Shanghai, where he was the top seed, but lost to world's number twelve, Jürgen Melzer in the third round, stopping his record streak of 21 consecutive Masters quarter-finals. On 5 November, Nadal announced that he was pulling out of the Paris Masters due to tendinitis in his left shoulder.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, ATP World Tour Finals
At the ATP World Tour Finals in London, Nadal defeated Andy Roddick (3-6, 7-6(5), 6-4) in the first match. He then beat Djokovic in a tight match where Djokovic had trouble with his contact lenses, prevailing (7-5, 6-2). A further victory against Berdych, (7-6(3), 6-1), sent him to his third World Tour Final semi-final. It was the first time he had won all three round-robins, in stark contrast to the previous year. In the semi-finals, he was thrice two points from defeat and was able to win the match on his third match point (7-6(5), 3-6, 7-6(6)). In the final, Nadal lost against Roger Federer with a score of (3-6, 6-3, 1-6). This was Nadal's last tournament in the 2010 professional tennis season.


2010 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year summary, Match for Africa
Finally, he played Federer in the two-match exhibition Match for Africa for the Roger Federer Foundation and the Rafa Nadal Foundation. The first match took place in Zürich on December 21, 2010, and was won by Federer, (4-6, 6-3, and 6-3). The following match was played in Madrid, and Nadal beat Federer with a score of (7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-1).


2010 Rai Open
The 2010 Rai Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Rome, Italy between the 12th and 18th of April, 2009.


2010 Rai Open, ATP entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 Rai Open, Champions, Doubles
Tomasz Bednarek /  Mateusz Kowalczyk def. Jeff Coetzee /  Jesse Witten, 6–4, 7–6(4)


2010 Rai Open – Doubles
Simon Greul and Alessandro Motti were the defending champions, but Greul chose to participate in Monte Carlo instead. Motti partnered up with Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo, but they lost to Jorge Aguilar and Federico del Bonis in the first round. Polish pair Tomasz Bednarek and Mateusz Kowalczyk won in the final 6–4, 7–6(4), against Jeff Coetzee and Jesse Witten.


2010 Rai Open – Singles
Sebastián Decoud was the defending champion, but chose to compete in Pereira instead. Filippo Volandri won in the final 6–4, 7–5, against Lamine Ouahab.


2010 Rainy River District municipal elections
Elections were held in the organized municipalities in the Rainy River District of Ontario on October 25, 2010 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.


2010 Rainy River District municipal elections, Alberton
Alberton was one of three municipalities in the region which held no council elections as the entire incumbent council was acclaimed back into office. The council will consist of reeve Michael Hammond and councillors Barb Cournoyer, Doug Mitchell, Peter Spuzak and Mike Ford.


2010 Rainy River District municipal elections, Atikokan
Incumbent mayor Dennis Brown was re-elected in Atikokan. Jerry Duhamel, Bud Dickson, Bob Gosselin, Mary Makarenko, Marjorie Lambkin and Marlene Davidson were elected to council.


2010 Rainy River District municipal elections, Chapple
Incumbent reeve Peter Van Heyst was acclaimed back into office in Chapple. Councillors Ken Wilson, Rilla Race and James Gibson were also acclaimed; the township's only contested council seat was in Ward 4, where Rick Neilson defeated Murray Gerula.


2010 Rainy River District municipal elections, Dawson
Eltjo Wiersema was acclaimed as reeve of Dawson. Brenda Jodoin, Aime Desaulniers, Bennett Drennan and Archie Wiersema were elected to council.


2010 Rainy River District municipal elections, Emo
Vincent Sheppard defeated incumbent mayor Ed Carlson in Emo. Robert Simmons, Vernon Thompson, Anthony Leek and Gary Judson were elected to council.


2010 Rainy River District municipal elections, Fort Frances
Fort Frances was one of three municipalities in the region which held no council elections as the entire incumbent council was acclaimed back into office. The council will consist of mayor Roy Avis and councillors John Albanese, Andrew Hallikas, Ken Perry, Paul Ryan, Sharon Tibbs and Rick Wiedenhoeft.


2010 Rainy River District municipal elections, La Vallee
Ross Donaldson was elected reeve in La Vallee. Dennis Allen, Jim Belluz, Freeda Carmody and Darcy Robson were elected to council.


2010 Rainy River District municipal elections, Lake of the Woods
Incumbent reeve Valerie Pizey was re-elected in Lake of the Woods. Colleen Fadden, Glenn Anderson and Bill Lundgren were declared elected to council on election night, while candidates Nancy Gate and JoAnn Moen tied for the remaining seat. A recount confirmed the tie, so the candidates' names were placed in a hat; Moen won the draw.


2010 Rainy River District municipal elections, Morley
Morley was one of three municipalities in the region which held no council elections as the incumbent council was acclaimed back into office. Moe Henry, George Heyens, Maury Nielson and Bill Romyn will serve on council. There were no nominations submitted for the position of reeve; the new council will have to decide whether to appoint one or to schedule a by-election.


2010 Rainy River District municipal elections, Rainy River
Incumbent mayor Deborah Ewald was acclaimed back into office in Rainy River. Larry Armstrong, Ashley Stamler, Brent Anderson and Gord Armstrong were elected to council.


2010 Rajnavy Rayong F.C. season
The 2010 season was Rajnavy's eighth season in the top division of Thai football. This article shows statistics of the club's players in the season, and also lists all matches that the club played in the season.


2010 Rajnavy Rayong F.C. season, Current squad
Updated 7 January 2010Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2010 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships
The 2010 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 37th edition of the event known that year as the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships, and was part of the 500 Series of the 2010 ATP World Tour. It was held at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan, from October 4 through October 11, 2010. Rafael Nadal won the singles title.


2010 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships, ATP entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships, Finals, Doubles
Eric Butorac /  Jean-Julien Rojer defeated  Andreas Seppi /  Dmitry Tursunov, 6–3, 6–2.


2010 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships – Doubles
Julian Knowle and Jürgen Melzer were the defending champions, but they lost to Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares in the quarterfinal. Eric Butorac and Jean-Julien Rojer won in the final 6–3, 6–2, against Andreas Seppi and Dmitry Tursunov.


2010 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships – Singles
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was the defending champion, but was eliminated in the first round by Jarkko Nieminen. Top seed Rafael Nadal defeated Gaël Monfils 6–1, 7–5 to become the event's third Spanish winner since David Ferrer won in 2007.


2010 Rali Vinho da Madeira
The 2010 Rali Vinho da Madeira (Madeira Wine Rally), was the eighth round of the 2010 Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC) season. The 21 stage asphalt rally took place on the island of Madeira between 5 – 7 August 2010 with all stages running in daylight.


2010 Rali Vinho da Madeira, Introduction
The rally was based in Funchal, which is the largest city on the island of Madeira. The Thursday evening had a single stage, the 2.18 km (1.35 mi) Avenida Do Mar stage, which was the only stage that was run once during the event. Friday consisted of twelve stages covering 183.04 km (113.74 mi) with a further eight stages on the Saturday covering 115.16 km (71.56 mi). The top four protagonists of the IRC; Juho Hänninen, Jan Kopecký, Bruno Magalhães and Kris Meeke took part in the event, while Guy Wilks did not take part due to an injury sustained at the Rally d'Italia Sardegna.


2010 Rali Vinho da Madeira, Results
Freddy Loix joined Juho Hänninen as a two-time winner in the 2010 IRC season with victory in Madeira, with a comfortable victory of nearly 40 seconds over Jan Kopecký. His victory, the fifth of his IRC career, tied the record of Kris Meeke for number of victories in the series. Loix, who claimed fourteen stage victories during the event, fought off the challenges of the other Škodas, Luca Rossetti's Abarth and Meeke's Peugeot.


2010 Rali Vinho da Madeira, Results
Rossetti crashed out of the event during the second run through the Cidade de Santana stage, while Meeke retired on stage 17 due to a mechanical problem, two stages after breaking an alternator belt. Behind Loix and Kopecký, Hänninen finished third but still holds a seven-point lead over Kopecký in the championship.


2010 Rally America season
The 2010 Rally America season is the sixth season of Rally America. The season consists of 6 rallies and began on January 29, with the Sno* Drift National Rally in Michigan. They will also be hosting 3 rally-cross competitions in the fall at New Jersey Motor Sports Park. The Rally in the 100 Acre Wood had Ken Block in a Ford Fiesta was the first time in 10 years that Ford has been on the podium. It also marked the first time since 2004 that a Subaru was not on the podium, and the first time in history that a Subaru has not won the championship.


2010 Rally America season
Antoine L'Estage won the Open championship, winning the rallies in Susquehannock and New England to give him an eventual 27-point winning margin over William Bacon. In the other classes, Patrick Moro won the Super Production Championship, and Christopher Duplessis won the championship for 2WD cars.


2010 Rally America season, Major entries, Open
Only the top 10 competitors are listed, as well as other well-known racers.


2010 Rally Argentina
The 2010 Rally Argentina was the 30th running of Rally Argentina and the third round of the 2010 Intercontinental Rally Challenge season. The rally consisted of 15 special stages and took place over 19–21 March 2010. The rally was also a round of the South American Rally Championship and the Argentine Rally Championship.


2010 Rally Argentina, Introduction
The rally started in Villa Carlos Paz, a city in the center-north of the province of Córdoba, on Friday 19 March with a 3.30 km (2.05 mi) super special stage in the town. The event was made up of 15 gravel stages covering a total of 238.62 km (148.27 mi) all completed in daylight. The event on Saturday consisted of seven stages and was centred on the town of San Agustín and around Valle Hermoso on Sunday. The final stage was a repeat of the super special stage in Villa Carlos Paz.


2010 Rally Argentina, Introduction
Nasser Al-Attiyah was seeded number 1 in his Škoda Fabia S2000, with local Federico Villagra taking number 2 in his Ford Fiesta S2000. Other entrants included current championship leader Juho Hänninen and reigning champion Kris Meeke. A total of 63 cars took part in the event.


2010 Rally Argentina, Results
Škodas dominated the event, winning all bar one stage of the event. After Kris Meeke won the opening stage in Villa Carlos Paz, Juho Hänninen took control of the rally on the second stage and never lost the lead. Hänninen won eleven of the remaining fourteen stages, as he won the rally by 51 seconds. The other two drivers to win a stage, Guy Wilks and Jan Kopecký finished second and third to complete a clean sweep of the podium for Škoda. Kopecký was the main beneficiary of the retirement of Meeke on the road section after stage fourteen, as the suspension spot-weld failed on the Northern Irish driver's Peugeot during the stage.


2010 Rally Azores
The 2010 Sata Rally Azores, officially 45º Sata Rallye Açores, was the seventh round of the 2010 Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC) season. The 19 stage gravel rally took place on the island of São Miguel in the Azores between 15–17 July 2010.


2010 Rally Azores, Introduction
The rally was based in the major city of Ponta Delgada. Day one consisted of three stages covering a total of 24.40 km (15.16 mi). Day two covered a total of 98.46 km (61.18 mi) over nine stages with the remaining seven stages, covering 95.04 km (59.06 mi) were completed on day three.


2010 Rally Azores, Results
Bruno Magalhães became the sixth different winner of an IRC rally in 2010, after taking advantage of troubles for the Škodas of championship contenders Juho Hänninen and Jan Kopecký over the closing stages of the rally. Magalhães had dominated the early running of the event, holding a 2.2-second advantage into the final day. Hänninen eroded the gap on the first stage on Saturday, but would have to wait until stage fifteen to take the lead, as stage fourteen was cancelled after Andreas Mikkelsen hit a stray cow.


2010 Rally Azores, Results
Hänninen would hold the lead until the penultimate stage, when he picked up a right-front puncture on the Graminhais test, losing nearly two minutes to his chasers, falling to fourth behind Kopecký, Magalhães and Kris Meeke. Kopecký held a lead of 6.4 seconds going into the final 21.94 km (13.63 mi) Tronqueira test over Magalhães. However, Kopecký's bid for a second win of the season would come to a premature end as he slid off the road with four kilometres remaining in the stage.


2010 Rally Azores, Results
His bad luck rewarded Magalhães with his first-ever win in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, with Meeke coming home in second to record Peugeot's first 1-2 in the series since Meeke and Nicolas Vouilloz finished in those positions at the 2009 Rally International de Curitiba. Hänninen's third-place finish extended his championship lead over Kopecký to nine points, with Magalhães moving into third position.


2010 Rally Bulgaria
The 2010 Rally Bulgaria was the seventh round of the 2010 World Rally Championship season. The rally took place over July 9–11, and was based in Borovets, around 70 km (43 mi) outside the capital city, Sofia. The rally was also the third round of the Junior World Rally Championship.


2010 Rally Bulgaria
Rally Bulgaria made its début in the World Rally Championship, having been approved to the calendar in September 2009. The event was won by Sébastien Loeb, who took his fourth win of the season, and the 58th of his WRC career. Loeb was part of a 1-2-3-4 by Citroën cars, as team-mate Dani Sordo finished second, Petter Solberg finished third in his privately run car and Sébastien Ogier was fourth in a car run by the Citroën Junior Team; the first such result by any manufacturer since 1993.


2010 Rally Catalunya
The 2010 Rally Catalunya was the twelfth and penultimate round of the 2010 World Rally Championship season. The rally took place over 22–24 October 2010, and was based in Salou, the second biggest city in the Province of Tarragona in Catalonia. The rally was also the sixth and final round of the Junior World Rally Championship.


2010 Rally Catalunya
After claiming the world championship at the previous round in France, Sébastien Loeb won the 61st WRC rally of his career by leading from start to finish. Second was Petter Solberg with Loeb's team-mate Dani Sordo completing an all-Citroën podium. Loeb's victory ensured that the marque's C4 would finish with a perfect record on asphalt, with it not being beaten on any WRC rally on the surface since its début in 2007.


2010 Rally Catalunya
Despite being forced to return under Superally conditions, Aaron Burkart won the JWRC championship title after Hans Weijs Jr. was slowed by a crankshaft sensor issue on the second run through El Priorat.


2010 Rally Estonia
The 2010 Rally Estonia (formally known as the Mad-Croc Rally Estonia 2010) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over three days between 16 and 18 July 2010. It was the inaugural running of Rally Estonia. The event consisted of twelve special stages totalling 189.83 km (117.95 mi) in competitive kilometres. The stages were run on smooth gravel roads of Southern Estonia.


2010 Rally Estonia
Local hero Markko Märtin (co-driver Kristo Kraag) was dominant as he won all twelve stages driving a Ford Focus RS WRC 03. Rising star Ott Tänak (co-driver Kuldar Sikk) finished second on his Subaru Impreza STi N14. Finnish driver Toni Gardemeister (co-driver Tapio Suominen) completed the podium driving a Ford Fiesta S2000.


2010 Rally Finland
The 2010 Neste Oil Rally Finland was the 60th Rally Finland and the eighth round of the 2010 World Rally Championship season. The rally took place over July 29–31, and is based in Jyväskylä, the capital of the Central Finland region. The rally was also the fifth round of the Production World Rally Championship and the sixth round of the Super 2000 World Rally Championship.


2010 Rally Finland
Jari-Matti Latvala took his second victory of the season, and the fourth of his WRC career after holding off the Citroën C4s of Sébastien Ogier, Sébastien Loeb and Petter Solberg, as the four drivers were separated by just over 30 seconds at the rally's conclusion.


2010 Rally Finland
In the junior classes, Intercontinental Rally Challenge championship leader Juho Hänninen made a guest appearance in the Super 2000 class, and wound up winning the class and taking two overall championship points for ninth position. Per-Gunnar Andersson also claimed an overall point, as he finished second in class. One of the selections for the Pirelli Star Driver and a protégé of former WRC driver Markko Märtin, Ott Tänak claimed victory in the PWRC, on his first appearance in the class this season.


2010 Rally International of Curitiba
The 2010 Rally International of Curitiba, officially 2010 Rally Internacional de Curitiba (30° Graciosa Rally), was the second round of the 2010 Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC) season. It was also the first round of the South American Rally Championship and the Brazilian Rally Championship. The rally took place over 4–6 March 2010.


2010 Rally International of Curitiba, Introduction
The rally was due to start with a 3.38 km (2.10 mi) prologue on Thursday 4 March to determine the running order for leg one. However, this was cancelled due to heavy rain. The prologue route was also due to be used as the final stage of the rally, but was also cancelled due to the persistent rain that lasted throughout the event. The event consisted of a total of 15 gravel special stages covering 684.20 km (425.14 mi) with all stages taking place in daylight. The rally was centred in the city of Curitiba, which is the capital of the Brazilian state of Paraná.


2010 Rally International of Curitiba, Introduction
Confirmed entries for the event included Guy Wilks (Škoda UK), reigning champion Kris Meeke (Kronos Racing Team Peugeot UK), and the Brazilian Daniel Oliveira, who drove a Peugeot 207 S2000 for the Austrian Stohl Racing squad.


2010 Rally International of Curitiba, Results
Kris Meeke led the rally from start to finish, as he took his first victory of the season. Another British driver, Guy Wilks finished 46.7 seconds behind in second, with the Škoda of Juho Hänninen finishing third. Hänninen moves into the championship lead, after his six points in Brazil took him onto a tally of fourteen points.


2010 Rally Islas Canarias
The 2010 Rally Islas Canarias was the fourth round of the 2010 Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC) season. The fifteen stage asphalt rally took place on the island of Gran Canaria between 29 April and 1 May 2010. The rally, which is also a round of the Spanish Asphalt Championship, was a late entry in the IRC calendar after the withdrawal of the Rally Principe de Asturias.


2010 Rally Islas Canarias, Introduction
The rally was based in the capital Las Palmas with a ceremonial start on Thursday 29 April 2010. Day one consisted of nine stages covering a total of 137.25 km (85.28 mi) with day two covering a total of 84.34 km (52.41 mi) over six stages. In addition to a host of local drivers and those who travelled from Spain, several leading IRC competitors confirmed that they were taking part in the event. They included Jan Kopecký, Guy Wilks and Juho Hanninen representing Škoda with Bruno Magalhães and Kris Meeke entered for Peugeot.


2010 Rally Isle of Man
The 2010 Rally Isle of Man was held between July 8–10, 2010. It was the 47th Rally Isle of Man, the fourth round of the 2010 MSA British Rally Championship and the fifth round of the 2010 MSA British Historic Rally Championship.


2010 Rally Japan
The 2010 Rally Japan, was the 10th round of the 2010 World Rally Championship (WRC) season. The 26 stage gravel rally took place on 9 – 12 September 2010 and was based in the city of Sapporo. The rally featured eight super specials at the Sapporo Dome with the rally finishing at the Dome on the Sunday afternoon.


2010 Rally Japan
Sébastien Ogier took the second WRC victory of his career, capitalising on a broken damper for Petter Solberg which dropped him out of the lead on the final morning of the rally. Ogier also cut into teammate Sébastien Loeb's championship lead, reducing it to 43 points before their home event in France.


2010 Rally Japan, Introduction
Prior to the rally, depending on results, Sébastien Loeb could have clinched his seventh consecutive world title with three events to spare. With a 58-point lead over teammate Sébastien Ogier pre-rally, Loeb had to outscore Ogier by 18 points in order to secure the championship, as well as beating Ford's Jari-Matti Latvala by 2 points, as the Finnish driver was 74 points behind Loeb. Petter Solberg and Dani Sordo were still in mathematical contention but would have to finish in the top two placings in Japan, with Loeb failing to score, to stay in contention.


2010 Rally México
The 2010 Rally México was the 23rd Rally Mexico and the second round of the 2010 World Rally Championship season. The rally took place over March 5–7, and was based in León, in the Guanajuato region of the country. The event was part of the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution and the 200th anniversary of its independence. The rally was also the second round of both the Production Car World Rally Championship and the Super 2000 World Rally Championship.


2010 Rally México
The stages of the rally mixed mountain peaks with flat open valleys. Due to the high altitude, engines struggle to breathe in the thin air, causing a twenty percent reduction in their output. Stage 20 of the rally — Sauz Seco — was cancelled prior to the event, on safety grounds.


2010 Rally México
Sébastien Loeb took his 55th career rally victory, leading from the end of the eleventh stage onwards. Loeb won by just over 24 seconds from another Citroën driver, Petter Solberg. Solberg had led the rally throughout the first leg, and only took second position on the final stage through the super special stage. Solberg's gain was Sébastien Ogier's loss, as the Citroën junior driver just missed out on equalling his best career result in the World Rally Championship. Solberg overturned a 0.6-second gap over the final 4.42 km (2.75 mi), taking Ogier by 1.1 seconds.


2010 Rally México
In the SWRC event, Xavier Pons took the victory after battling Martin Prokop throughout the event. In the end, the Spanish driver took victory by just seventeen seconds, as both finished inside the overall top ten, in eighth and ninth places respectively. Prokop moved into the championship lead with a second to go with his third in Sweden. Michał Kościuszko was third, but over half an hour behind Pons and Prokop, with Eyvind Brynildsen and Albert Llovera rounding out the class finishers.


2010 Rally México
In the PWRC, Armindo Araújo took victory by over three minutes from Toshi Arai. Miguel Baldoni, Benito Guerra and Gianluca Linari were the only other finishers. With Patrik Flodin absent, Araújo moved into a 15-point championship lead.


2010 Rally México
The rally also ran an event/class named "Rally America" which allowed cars legal in the similarly named but unrelated Rally America series to run on the same stages as the WRC cars. The 2010 event was notable for the participation of amateur driver Bill Caswell who drove a 1991 BMW 318i he bought for $500 over Craigslist alongside co-driver Ben Slocum to 3rd place in the class, much to the amusement of the other drivers.


2010 Rally New Zealand
The 2010 Rally New Zealand was the fifth round of the 2010 World Rally Championship season. The rally took place over 7–9 May and is based in the country's largest city, Auckland. The rally was also the fourth round of both the Production World Rally Championship and the Super 2000 World Rally Championship.


2010 Rally New Zealand
Jari-Matti Latvala took his third WRC win after taking advantage of an error by Sébastien Ogier on the final stage; which promoted the Finn into first place. Latvala eventually took the victory by just 2.4 seconds with Sébastien Loeb a further 12.8 seconds back in third position. Loeb had been leading prior to stage 19, before hitting a tree which cost him over 40 seconds.


2010 Rally New Zealand
Jari Ketomaa won the Super 2000 class of the rally, finishing in eighth position overall. Xavier Pons also broke the top ten overall as he finished behind Ketomaa to extend his championship lead to 20 points over Martin Prokop, who finished third in the class. Home drivers dominated the PWRC class as Pirelli Star Driver Hayden Paddon, Emma Gilmour and Kingsley Thompson took a 1-2-3 for New Zealand drivers.


2010 Rally Scotland
The 2010 Rally Scotland was the 11th round of the 2010 Intercontinental Rally Challenge and the second running of the event. The event was held between 15 – 17 October 2010 in the forests of Stirling and Perth & Kinross. Four of the special stages were broadcast live on Eurosport.


2010 Rally Scotland, Introduction
The forest rally was based in Perth, with a ceremonial start and the initial two stages being held at Scone Palace in the dark on the Friday evening. Saturday consisted of three routes (each run twice) covering 114.10 km (70.90 mi). Sunday had an additional two routes (93.98 km (58.40 mi)) again run twice, before the ceremonial finish at Stirling Castle.