F1 - The season of many sides…
With only a few days to go until the new F1 season takes hold and Charlotte’s weekends get ruined for the sake of two hours of TV I’m getting excited about it once more. I am however much more excited about places 3-8 this year. The winner and the second placed man will be either a McLaren or a Ferrari from what I can see and it’s going to be which out of Hamilton and Kimi can finish in the lower places more often who will win the championship.
The lower places will be much harder fought over with BMW seeming to slip back slightly - well they did have a very good traction control system 
and Williams upping their game. Renault will be in this group too along with (fingers crossed) Honda. Red Bull also seem to have the speed (if not the reliability) to reach this zone. There will always be strong races from the guys behind too who have kept the big guns honest for the last couple of years - mentioning no Japanese names.
I have to say that I think the Drivers crown will once again rest on a Finnish head but I think the Constructors is too close to call - Hekki hasn’t shown the consistancy that Alonso had and McLaren need this year and he may be their undoing. Third place in both titles is up for grabs though and although I’d be willing to bet that the third place Driver will be Massa or Hekki I wouldn’t be that surprised to see Alonso sitting there at the end of the season with his skills at managing something from nothing.
Drivers to watch this year - from my perspective are - Massa, can he really challenge Kimi or will he be resigned to the roll of second fiddles at Ferrari, Button, can he pull his Honda team back from last year, Rosberg, he’s now the team leader and with an improved package can be blindingly fast - I can still remember that race in Bahrain. Others are Sato, he’s always exciting, his move on Alonso this year goes down in my book along with Hakinnen/Schumacher/backmarker and Alonso/Schmacher/180R.
I’m not going to be that interested in the fates of Toyota or Force India, I can’t see either of them doing anything this year - I’m not sure how much longer Toyota will stick around to be honest and the Force India cars need a lot of engineering to get them any faster.
Traction control will be a big thing this year, it should seperate the men from the boys and I predict that we’ll see some relative changes in levels of performance between the drivers 
Roll on Australia!
Good Hunting