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Maldonado
Bottas beat him in his rookie season. Also he looked very unmotivated and also frustrated with his team at the end.
Would be interesting to see how he does in a good car (Lotus), but I am not sure if he deserves it.

McLaren
Very disappointing season. Back in 2004 or 2009 they still could recover themselves from a bad season, this time not. Probably they didn't want to either.

Caterham
With quite good financial resources they still couldn't deliver results to the race track. 2-4 seconds off the pace and beaten by Marussia (well, it depends on luck also), but it still is disappointing, isn't it?

Another mentions to Massa and Williams.
Gutiérrez wasn't good, but it was his rookie year, so I wouldn't count him.

Alonso
Maybe still got the best out of the Ferrari but during the season he kept bashing at the team more than anyone else previously dared and got away with it. Never looking at him self with an alltime low the helmet with his "records" on it.

Maldonado
Everyone's fault except his.

McLaren
Poor poor poor car and Perez was a victim of that

Maldonado, Sutil, McLaren

Maldonado. As said, beaten by Bottas and threw his toys out of the pram spectacularly. Still has the racecraft of a camel.

McLaren. A comedy of errors. Strange decision to totally change car philosophy from 'easily second and possible strongest car of 2012' to 'something totally different (utter pants)'. Didn't show startling development either. A bit cack.

Farce India. Similar, but largely during the races. Badly affected by the tyre changes having developed a good car for the 2014 tyres, but even before then they were tripping over themselves to screw things up.

Honourable mention to Williams who also managed to balls up a quick 2012 car (possibly not helped by having Maldonado spearheading winter development?) but to their credit, at least manage to salvage something towards the end.

I have picked McLaren (a disgrace for what is supposed to be a top team)
and Caterham. How on earth can you manage to be last in the constructor's championship, if you have Marussia participating...

So many this year...

- McLaren for hiring the wrong guy and then ballsing up the car so badly
- Force India failed to get it together early in the year when they had a mega car
- Williams for just regressing so badly and then finally finding the problem with three rounds remaining
- Maldonado for, well, yeah
- Ferrari's development team also needs an honourable mention; irrespective of the tyres they went from very good at Barcelona to pretty shit very quickly

But I think it has to go to the teams. They couldn't agree on anything about the tyres, which ultimately led to the International Tribunal, which was farcical. Then there was Silverstone, which was dangerous and farcical. They blamed everyone except themselves and Pirelli got bad press because of it. Then the changes weren't good enough (apparently). And hey, they're *still* not agreeing about the 2014 tyres so this will only continue...

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-Wanted to vote for Whitmarsh, but I guess Mclaren will do.
-Maldonado, obviously for showing his true colours.
-And Caterham for being beaten by Marussia, haha.

Maldonado - uses his sole victory achieved last year as a reason to demand the best car and erverything else, even though he doesn't do nothing to improve, and when nothing works, he whines and acts like as the only solution, but is the main problem

McLaren - they lacked the development showed in the past seasons when they had a slow start, and secured victories. They also lacked a bit the daring spirit that Hamilton brought to Mercedes and allowed the germans to improve

Force India - the lineup for this year was just weak and couldn't go for more results, kudos to key people as James Key (lol) at Toro Rosso and their drivers aswell and also good driving by other medium team drivers such as Hulkenberg. looked like Sutil and di Resta were so apathetic during the season

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Why Force India? For a small team they developed an amazing car for the first half of the season, completely to the characteristics of the tyre. When everything changed they had trouble changing to it. They had to let go their battle with Mclaren, but they still where the best midfield team.

in the second half of the season they lacked consistency and I couldn't see good performances in qualifying. anyway next season they'll be better

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Which was totally due to the changes of tyres. I wouldn't blame that one on them, not on a small team.

Their pit strategy at times however bordered on farcical. But not as farcical as McLaren and Williams have been.

Williams also had problems with wheel nuts, something kinda weird

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Maldonado for basically everything he did all year, McLaren for obvious reasons and their insane treatment of Perez and Massa for wasting that top drive yet again.

McLaren and Caterham

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Sauber were the best midfield team. It's that Gutierrez is useless and even Hulk I don't think is as good as Button.

The pure speed Sauber showed in second half was only behind Red Bull on all tracks. They(actually Hulk) managed to outqualify some(or all as in Monza) Lotuses, Mercedes and Ferraris on quite a regular basis, in such a way Mclaren or FI never managed to

I voted Caterham, Mclaren and Williams btw

Maldonado: after his Spain win last year, he suddenly thought he was the best F1 driver in history, and begun to do shit at wheel. His move on Bottas at Suzuka showed it perfectly: nothing to win at that point of the race (fight for something like the 16th place), and still try to pass, risking to crash the both cars of a team who can't allow it. His bitching at the end of the season, about a "sabotage" was the summum of his season.

Van Der Garde: Some good races (Monaco qualifications), but too much shitty moves, at the start of many races. I don't hate him, but so many better drivers should be in his car.

McLaren: Being totally nowhere this year, unable to correct the shot. I just hope they will do as they always do after a crappy season: a kick in the ass, and a return to the Top.

I have to disagree here. I thought Van der Garde did a very respectable job. That said, maybe it had to do with my low expectations.

When they had a good car they spent the entire time screwing it up. In fact early in the season I even kept a log of it.



I also think it's completely unacceptable that whilst Force India were making these ridiculous balls ups every race, when Paul was annoyed he silently shook his head and was told off by his team. They seem to be immune to criticism despite being unable to operate the most basic of strategies, but are happy to broadcast themselves telling off the drivers who did nothing wrong to the whole world. They have a revolving door of drivers, often resulting in not hiring the drivers they currently have and then having to go back to them later. In reality Sutil, di Resta and Hulk have done fantastic jobs for them - they just refuse to admit they suck at the most basic of tasks.

Another team that made shitty strategy decisions was Lotus.

I think the opening race win gave them too much confidence, from then on they seemed to get into a good position early on and fuck it up, Kimi seemingly losing patience with the team and when the financial situation became untenable having no qualms about getting the hell out of there.
THEN to show how bad things are getting, they hire the Devil in a race suit himself, when they probably needed another experienced driver to partner Grosjean to give him more development.
Mark my words, Maldanado will be more of a hindrance than a help to that team.
Yes, his money is needed but he will see himself as the number 1 driver and the team will be focusing more on Grosjean leading to a meltdown by about Austria time.

However, in a year that will go down as not exactly a classic in F1 history, 2013 season will be remembered for 2 things. The tyre situation is well documented and took the flak off the year's other major controversy: Multi 21
A new facet to the old argument about team orders. Previously drivers have been told not to pass or to move over for a team mate when they have proved they are the faster driver in that race.
This time the red bull drivers were told not to overtake, yet seemingly only one of them heard that message.

But Seb did what he did, he came out of it with seemingly no punishment and I'd be willing to bet Mark decided to get the hell out of the sport at that moment.
What Vettel proved is that he runs that team. Mark may have done enough to win the race, the team may have made the decision they needed to save the cars, but none of that matters to Vettel when it doesn't benefit him
It's written into every drivers contract that they must obey orders from their team.
Not "You must obey orders that favour you, when they don't suit you, ignore them and do what the hell you want..."
With their lack of punishment to seebass Red Bull send out a message that they don't see this as a team sport at all...
Good look Daniel for 2014 in your "only there because the rules say we have to run 2 cars!" ride

Still, the thing that annoys me most about that race is that the top 4 cars were told NOT to race. It was a parade.
And this is in a race where there was only 1 Ferrari around, so it could easily have been 6 too if Alonso hadn't crashed out.
For all the controversy Perez's wheel banging with Jenson created at Bahrain, I still much prefer Mclaren's way of doing things than the seemingly standard F1 method of "If our cars get within 10 seconds of each other, reach for the radio Button"

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