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[Jabberwocky]

The thread of bold statements

Add your statements below about the 2014 season -

I will lock the thread pre season to prevent editing.

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[1Lemon]

The Jabber beat me to it!

My bold statement is that Williams will win a race in 2014 , and it will be Bottas.

[Jabberwocky]

Caterham will beat 2 teams in the championship.

Only Manufacturer backed teams will win a race

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[1Lemon]

I had them down as winning a point but beating two teams? Care to risk a guess on who they are?

Does Red Bull and lotus count as manufacturer backed teams?

[geetface9]

I predict pastor maldonado will win races and become another romain grosjean success story, growing out of his recklessness

[What's Burning?]

Kamui Kobayashi will score the first WCC point for Caterham.

[Jabberwocky]

I had them down as winning a point but beating two teams? Care to risk a guess on who they are?

Does Red Bull and lotus count as manufacturer backed teams?

Red bull
Ferrari
Mercedes.

As for the 2 teams. Caterham will beat I am going to say Marussia and Toro Rosso.

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[CookinFlat6]

Button will get found out conclusively
Lewis will confirm an innate adaptability and noticeable exceptional speed
Merc will demonstrate the benefits of a blitzkrieg approach to competition
Customer teams to underperform for the first quarter season
Red Bull not to continue to beat Ferrari or Mercedes
Hulk and/or Perez to become real contenders
Lewis WDC, Rosberg second, Hulk/Perez 3rd/4th, Merc WCC,
Alonso to beat Kimi with help from the team - No equality from early in the season
Perez to lap Button at least once
Williams vs McLaren close battle for a WCC place
Magnus best rookie despite fewer points than others due to incidents
Mclaren team operations to visibly improve
Sam Michael to given a chance by Ron

[1Lemon]

Button getting found out doing what? Max Mosley style?

[CookinFlat6]

Found out as an F1 driver capable of leading a top team

[sagi58]

Found out as an F1 driver capable of leading a top team

That's quite the 360!!

[Hammer278]

More like a 180...360 just leads you back to where you were previously.

Bold statements;

1) Lewis Hamilton becomes 2x WDC by end of 2014

2) Ferrari do not come close (at least a 40 point gap to the winner by the end) to winning the WCC

3) Williams manage at least 3 podiums during the season

4) Force India wins a race

5) Either Kimi or Alonso WILL leave Ferrari before 2015 commences

[1Lemon]

Oh 5 & 4 are bold. Also I read the first one as Hamilton wins 2 WDCs in one season and I just thought 'that's optimistic'

[racechick]

Ok, here are some thoughts I had over breakfast.

1. Hamilton to win WDC
2. Alonso to have a mega strop over pace of Ferrari- big blow up over it.
3. Massa to win a race for Williams
4. Force India in a close fight for second in the constructors with Ferrari and red bull.
5. Perez regularly out scores button.
6. Magnesun shows huge speed and adaptability to the new cars but also has a few crashes.
7. Tom Chiltern gets on a par with Bianchi.
8. There will be a race where less than 10 cars finish ( maybe even less than 6)
9. Newey retires from F1
10. Vettel makes series of rookie errors as his performance lead over the rest of the field is negated.

[Jabberwocky]

I thought about putting number 9 as well, however I think it will depend on the state of Red Bull this year.