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[Stevie]

Who'll be doing what this year?
I've filled mine out next to each question...

1. Driver's Champion? ROSBERG
2. Constructors? MERCEDES
3. Dark Horse? (Team or Driver) FERRARI
4. First crash will be...? MALDONADO...
5. First race winner will be...? HAMILTON
6. Best rookie? VERSTAPPEN
7. Biggest surprise? RED BULL FALL BACK
8. Biggest controversy? MCLAREN
9. Who will be the first to get into trouble with FIA? VETTEL
10. Who will be Merc's main challenger? FERRARI/WILLIAMS
11. Most eventful race? MELBOURNE
12. Most emotional moment? A FERRARI DRIVER ON PODIUM AT MONZA

[1Lemon]

1. Driver's Champion? Hamilton
2. Constructors? Merc
3. Dark Horse? (Team or Driver) Williams
4. First crash will be...? Roberto Merhi
5. First race winner will be...? Bottas
6. Best rookie? VERSTAPPEN
7. Biggest surprise? McLaren finish the first race
8. Biggest controversy? Ferrari (Probably cheat or something )
9. Who will be the first to get into trouble with FIA? Vettel for illegal helmet change
10. Who will be Merc's main challenger? Williams
11. Most eventful race? Oh, Canada
12. Most emotional moment? Bottas's first win

[CevertF1]

1. Driver's Champion? Lewis zzzZZZ
2. Constructors? Merc by a loooooooooooong way
3. Dark Horse? (Team or Driver) Ferrari
4. First crash will be...? Vettel (yeah, I'm going out on a limb here)
5. First race winner will be...? sigh.. Lewis
6. Best rookie? .. Verstappen
7. Biggest surprise? McLaren win two races
8. Biggest controversy? Lewis's girly earrings banned from the paddock. (well.. I couldn't think of anything good)
9. Who will be the first to get into trouble with FIA? Magnussen
10. Who will be Merc's main challenger? 1st half of 2015 Williams, 2nd half of 2015 Ferrari
11. Most eventful race? Canada
12. Most emotional moment? Michael Schumacher and Jules Bianchi make huge strides in their recovery and jointly wave the chequered flag at the last race of the season. (Hey, I'm allowed to dream)

[sagi58]

Interesting predictions/expectations from this writer:

, John Leicester wrote:">Not every F1 season can or needs to be a classic

Anyone who tells you this new Formula One season will be a classic, packed full of thrilling uncertainties, is stretching the truth.

The outcome -- Mercedes' super-quick cars again scooping up both the team and driver's championships -- is so certain you could bet your house on it. The biggest uncertainty is which Mercedes driver, Lewis Hamilton or Nico Rosberg, will be champion. Such a meagre diet of suspense will struggle to hold the interest of casual F1 fans.

So be it.

While predictability isn't brilliant, some alternatives are worse.

As Mercedes cleans up and TV viewers switch off in droves, as millions did in 2013 when Sebastian Vettel dominated for Red Bull, expect renewed discussion about how to improve the F1 "spectacle."

As though drivers risking life and limb to wrestle twitchy multi-million dollar marvels of modern technology around winding circuits at hundreds of kilometres an hour isn't spectacular enough. Lest anyone forget: Jules Bianchi remains unconscious and hospitalised five months after his horrific crash at the Japanese Grand Prix last season and concussion from an accident in pre-season testing for McLaren has forced Fernando Alonso to miss this weekend's season-opening Australian GP.

Still, because F1 is the most narcissistic of sports, fixated on looking glamorous, there will be talk yet again about what can be done to make races more unpredictable. The absurd idea of sprinkling circuits with water to make them slippery -- why not grease while we're at it? -- could come back from the dead. There may be calls for yet more tweaks to tyres or to cars' aerodynamics to ease overtaking. And there will be arguments for a shift to bigger, noisier 1,000-horsepower engines to generate more "wow" and dent Mercedes' advantage.

Or, alternatively, F1 could accept and do a better job of explaining to casual observers what it is: a sport of cycles where dynasties wax and wane. For the moment, Mercedes is to F1 what Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls were to NBA basketball, the team to unseat. It is for rivals to catch up, not for F1 to seek ways to put spanners in the Mercedes works.

Instead of fretting about Mercedes' superiority, F1 should celebrate that feat of engineering. When so much brainpower and hundreds of millions of dollars are invested in teams' hunt for hundredths of seconds of extra speed, it is truly remarkable that one of them has pulled so far ahead. Switching from McLaren to Mercedes from 2013 was the shrewdest move of Hamilton's career.

In 2014, the eventual champion or Rosberg started from pole position for 18 of the 19 races. And, on average, their qualifying advantage over the next best team was a whopping 0.655 seconds. Only in three races were they beaten, by Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo, the only other driver to win last season.

Mercedes' rivals subsequently worked furiously to narrow the gap. Yet, if anything, indications from pre-season testing and the initial warm-ups in Melbourne are that they slipped even further behind.

"Mercedes are out of reach," Vettel conceded Friday. This from a four-time world champion now driving a Ferrari.

The 20 races to come will tell, of course. But don't expect an array of Grand Prix winners like in 2012, which had eight, or a down-to-the-wire contest like 2010, when the last race had an unprecedented four drivers still in contention for the title.

In 1988 and 1989, McLaren-Honda dominated, with Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost battling within that team as Rosberg and Hamilton are now at Mercedes. From 2000-2004, Michael Schumacher cleaned up with Ferrari. Vettel got his four in a row from 2010-2013, when Red Bull was on top. Now is Hamilton's chance to string together championships and Rosberg's to stop him.

The simple fact: not every F1 season can or even needs to be a classic.

[overboost]

1. Driver's Champion? Hamilton
2. Constructors? Mercedes
3. Dark Horse? (Team or Driver) Ferrari
4. First crash will be...? Maldonado, saw it with my own eyes!
5. First race winner will be...? Hamilton
6. Best rookie? Nasr
7. Biggest surprise? McLaren - Honda failure
8. Biggest controversy? Alonso / Dennis
9. Who will be the first to get into trouble with FIA? Red Bull
10. Who will be Merc's main challenger? Nobody
11. Most eventful race? Montreal, Canada
12. Most emotional moment? Raikkonen wins at Spa (I know still no emotion)

[1Lemon]

1. Driver's Champion? Hamilton
2. Constructors? Mercedes
3. Dark Horse? (Team or Driver) Ferrari
4. First crash will be...? Maldonado, saw it with my own eyes!
5. First race winner will be...? Hamilton
6. Best rookie? Nasr
7. Biggest surprise? McLaren - Honda failure
8. Biggest controversy? Alonso / Dennis
9. Who will be the first to get into trouble with FIA? Red Bull
10. Who will be Merc's main challenger? Nobody
11. Most eventful race? Montreal, Canada
12. Most emotional moment? Raikkonen wins at Spa (I know still no emotion)

Technically I'd say Kyvat was the first crash on race day, going to the grid.