Red Bull:
+ Best car on the grid with the RB9, F1 car of the season to give Red Bull the constructors championship and Sebastian Vettel the drivers championship as-well for a forth time in a row.
- Replacing Mark Webber for 2014 season will be a touch challenge to replace him at Red Bull, Daniel Ricciardo will have a touch challenge to conquer.
Mercedes:
+ Some impressive race wins for Mercedes this season which includes wins for Nico Rosberg at Monaco and Silverstone; and Lewis Hamilton at the Hunganoring.
- Great in qualifying, great race car, but thats been ruined by races that the team doesn't understand the use of this years Pirelli tyres which has cost the team an opportunity of winning the drivers and constructor titles this season.
Ferrari:
+ Some great race performances from Fernando Alonso, which includes race wins at Shanghai and Barcelona.
- The car was too slow in qualifying and in races cost both Fernando Alonso and Ferrari the drivers and constructors championship this year.
Lotus:
+ Some great race performances from both Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean which includes race win for Kimi Raikkonen at Melbourne, and second place finish for Romain Grosjean at Austin.
- Financial problems are big question marks at Lotus, in debt, investment should be coming in or not, haven't paid Kimi Räikkonen since the start of the season, Kimi Räikkonen off to Ferrari next season, Pastor Maldonado coming to Lotus next season.
McLaren:
+ Honda V6 Turbo engines are on their way for the 2015 season, best performance this season was at Brazil with Jenson Button in forth place.
- The car was too slow this season, the 2014 car needs to be better, and sacking Sergio Perez at the end of the season, replacing him with Kevin Magnussen next season, McLaren made a wrong choice to sign Perez this season and first non podiums in a season since 1980.
Force India:
+ Some impressive drives from both Paul di Resta and Adrian Sutil this season including a forth place finish at Bahrain for di Resta and fifth for Sutil at Monaco.
- 17 points since Silverstone, the change of Pirelli tyres after Silverstone cost Force India fifth place in the constructors championship.
Sauber:
+ Some impressive performances from Nico Hülkenberg this season including fifth place at Monza and forth place in South Korea, despite under performing race car
- Financial problems are big question marks at Sauber, in debt, investment from Russia should be coming in or not, many questions have to be answered.
Scuderia Toro Rosso
+ Both Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Éric Vergne are showing why they are in Formula 1 with some great performances. Daniel Ricciardo off to Red Bull next season.
- Some great qualifying performances are ruined by some poor race pace this season from both drivers sides.
Williams
+ Some reasonable good performances from both Pastor Maldonado and Valtteri Bottas this season, despite an under perforamong race car.
- A very poor race car Williams have got this season, you can't blame the engine and drivers, last season they got 76 points, this season only five points.
Marussia
+ Jules Bianchi has been impressive during his debut season, even out performing Caterham drivers' this season giving Marussia tenth place in the constructors championship.
- Marussia are missing their pervious driver Timo Glock to develop the car this season compare to their current drivers who are rookies.
Caterham
+ Got Renault V6 Turbo engines for next season which will help for 2014, and some impressive driving from Giedo van der Garde.
- Finished eleventh place in the constructors championship, Caterham have not improved performance to catch up with the midfield teams this season, I think the team are missing an experience race driver like Heikki Kovalainen for example.
In part 2 of Formula 1 2013 Season Review my top 10 Formula 1 drivers of 2013. And my final thoughts of Formula 1 2013.
But for now, end of post for now. A new post soon. Bye.
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