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[GianFisi]

Those teams are going to be the fastest this year I think (and their best driver followed):

1. Ferrari (Räikkönen)
2. McLaren (Hamilton)
3. Renault (Alonso)
4. BMW-Sauber (Kubica)
5. Toyota (Glock)
6. Williams (Rosberg)
7. Red Bull (Webber)
8. Force India (Fisichella)
9. Toro Rosso (Vettel)
10. Super Aguri (Sato)
11. Honda (Button)


What would your own ranking look like?

[Jabberwocky]

I think there will be 4 groups and too hard to pick the order of each group

Ferrari/ McLaren

Renault / BMW-Sauber / Williams / Red Bull

Toyota / Honda / Toro Rosso

Force India / Super Aguri

[Denthúl]

Those teams are going to be the fastest this year I think (and their best driver followed):

1. Ferrari (Räikkönen)
2. McLaren (Hamilton)
3. Renault (Alonso)
4. BMW-Sauber (Kubica)
5. Toyota (Glock)
6. Williams (Rosberg)
7. Red Bull (Webber)
8. Force India (Fisichella)
9. Toro Rosso (Vettel)
10. Super Aguri (Sato)
11. Honda (Button)

What would your own ranking look like?

There'd definitely be some difference in mine.

1. Ferrari (Räikkönen, but Massa will start to catch him late into the season.)
2. McLaren (Hamilton at first, but soon Heikki will match him.)
3. BMW Sauber (Heidfeld and Kubica will start off pretty even, but it could go either way.)
4. Williams (Rosberg, as Nakajima will still need to build experience. He will, however, still be fast.)
5. Renault (Alonso for the first few races, but will soon be throwing tantrums as Piquet Jr. starts out-pacing him. Flav will then direct the resources more towards Fernando's car to compensate.)
6. Red Bull Racing (Webber, though it would be nice if DC was just as quick.)
7. Toro Rosso (Vettel and Bourdais will be fairly evenly matched, but Vettel might edge him due to knowing the car a little better.)
8. Honda (Hard to say - if the car is good, then Barichello will be more motivated and thus quicker than usual. If that is the case, even match. If it rains a lot, then it'll be Button and Honda might get a podium.)
9. Toyota (Glock)
10. Force India (Sutil, but Fisi will bring the car home in the points more often through experience.)
11. Super Aguri (Davidson, but due to funding issues, resources will be more in favour of Sato because of pressure from the Japanese public and sponsors.)

I don't see Toyota being able to out-pace Williams or Red Bull, and I think that the Hondas may be good enough to beat them this year. Super Aguri will still be at the bottom, since they're having to use a modified version of the RA107 and they won't be able to afford to keep up with development. I hope Anthony Davidson gets a new drive for 2009. It'd be great to see him driving for, say, Williams or Toro Rosso.

[AKR]

1. Ferrari
2. McLaren
3. BMW-Sauber
4. Renault
5. Williams
6. Honda
7. Red Bull
8. Toyota
9. Force India
10. Super Aguri
11. Toro Rosso

[7UpJordan]

1. McLaren (Hamilton)
2. Ferrari (Massa)
3. Williams (Rosberg)
4. BMW (Heidfeld)
5. Toro Rosso (Vettel)
6. Renault (Piquet)
7. Red Bull (Coulthard)
8. Force India (Sutil)
9. Super Aguri (Sato)
10. Honda (Barrichello)
11. Toyota (Glock)

[al4x]

Ferrari (kimi)
Mclaren (heikki)
Renault (Fernando) (probably higher!)
BMW (Kubica)

Dont know about the next 2

Williams (Rosberg)
RBR (Webber)

STR (vettel)

Very sketchy from here, i think maybe toyota and honda will start bottom but be above FI and SA by the end

Force India (Fisi)
Super Aguri (Sato)
Toyota (Glock)
Honda (Button)

[8-ball]

I think there will be 4 groups and too hard to pick the order of each group

Ferrari/ McLaren

Renault / BMW-Sauber / Williams / Red Bull

Toyota / Honda / Toro Rosso

Force India / Super Aguri

Its Easy to pick!

1. Ferrari (Räikkönen)
2. McLaren (Hamilton)
3. BMW-Sauber (Kubica)

and i don't really care about the rest

[texasmr2]

I think there will be 4 groups and too hard to pick the order of each group

Ferrari/ McLaren

Renault / BMW-Sauber / Williams / Red Bull

Toyota / Honda / Toro Rosso

Force India / Super Aguri

I also think that is about what we will see for which team's will be fighting for 1st-3rd in the WDC/WCC and yes picking the order would be fruitless, '08 is gonna be a superb season.

[Irv the Swerve]

1.Ferrari (Hoping Massa but Raikkonen)
2. McLaren (Heikki)
3. BMW (Heidfeld)
4. Renault (Alonso)
5. Williams (Rosberg)
6. FI (Sutil)
7. RBR (Webber)
8. Toyota (Glock)
9. STR (Vettel)
10. Honda (Barrichello)
11. *SA (Sato)

* Finacial Difficulties

[al4x]

im quite interested in how FI do this year

[barklay]

1. Ferrari (Räikkönen)
2. McLaren (Hamilton)
3. Renault (Alonso)
4. BMW-Sauber (Heidfeld)
5. Williams (Rosberg)
6. Red Bull Webber)
7. Honda (Button)
8. Toyota (Glock)
9. Force India (Fisichella)
10. Toro Rosso (Vettel)
11. Super Aguri (Sato)

Ohh, it' starting to come together, but I don't know quite yet. BMW-Sauber is getting their car together finally, Toyota isn't accomplishing much in closing gaps, and Force India is looking pretty good. This is my pick so far, but don't hold me on that.

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[Martin]

I think there will be 4 groups and too hard to pick the order of each group

Ferrari/ McLaren

Renault / BMW-Sauber / Williams / Red Bull

Toyota / Honda / Toro Rosso

Force India / Super Aguri

I also think that is about what we will see for which team's will be fighting for 1st-3rd in the WDC/WCC and yes picking the order would be fruitless, '08 is gonna be a superb season.

I agree with tex. 4 groups and its too tight to guess the winners of each group, regardless of what team fans might list. some lists are more about wish fulfillment than a real assessment.

[al4x]

I think there will be 4 groups and too hard to pick the order of each group

Ferrari/ McLaren

Renault / BMW-Sauber / Williams / Red Bull

Toyota / Honda / Toro Rosso

Force India / Super Aguri

I also think that is about what we will see for which team's will be fighting for 1st-3rd in the WDC/WCC and yes picking the order would be fruitless, '08 is gonna be a superb season.

I agree with tex. 4 groups and its too tight to guess the winners of each group, regardless of what team fans might list. some lists are more about wish fulfillment than a real assessment.

thats a good guess and i think that may well be the case at the end

hoping the BMW/Renault and Williams/RBR will have some distance between them

[f1ea]

Rather than trying to guess possitions, here's all I think about 08:

Ferrari: Seems to have the top car this year. Kimi is more at home and motivated with a car more fitting (he should be deadly in 08 ). I think Massa would have proven his worth if he beats the Mclarens and manages a few wins from Kimi, which I think he well can...

Mclaren comes from having the best car and their current still looks solid. Plus, it should be more fit to Lewis' style (gentler on its tyres? ) Lewis should have a solid year. Heikki's job is to keep Renault (Alonso), BMW and Williams and their pressure away from Lewis, and to not stir an inside battle!

Renault has a lot of room for improvement, as they were able to hang around with a weak car. They had the most time to develop for 08 and now they have more profiled drivers to bring in cash and keep the team motivated and improving. Alonso has to up his game and overcome last year's frustrations if he wants to battle for podiums... i think he can manage a couple of podiums. But Piquet will probably have a hard time against Williams and the BMWs.

Williams has motivation, experience and momentum. Nico could well be challenging and maybe beating the BMWs and Renault for podiums; Nakajima could bring in some good surprise results.

BMW is probably the strongest for consistent podiums behind Ferrari and McL unless their car struggles (which so far hasn't impressed). If it fails to deliver... then it is for Renault and Williams to battle Mclaren for podiums.

As for the rest... Toro Rosso have my favourite young guns. And Toyota looks good. I hope Honda's efforts deliver and bring them up for points......

[piledriver]

1. McLaren - Hamilton
2. Ferrari - Raikkonen
3. BMW Sauber - Heidfeld
4. Renault - Alonso
5. Williams - Rosberg
6. Honda - Button
7. Red Bull - Coulthard
8. Toyota - Trulli
9. Toro Rosso - Vettel
10. Super Aguri - Sato
11. Force India - Fisichella