webber is crap imo, compared to vettel anyway
if you take out conspiracy theories anyway
RBR seem to have the complete package, maybe not the best drivers, but vettel is obviously good, but pretty much the best everything else, near the top with spending power and near the top with efficiency with it. Everything they do seems to improve the car
feraari apparently have the most finance but definitely not good at translating that to the track
merc seem to be inbetween the two
mclaren i cant explain tbh,
the rest i dont think can match the spending power of the top teams, and this gap cannot be made up even with near 100% maximisation of the resources at their disposal. Also the need to employ pay drivers further reduces potential
merc a
Merc had the problem that they lost funding and most of the team in the Brawn year so while they started with the best car they didn't have the money/people to develop the car through the year, RBR's biggest strength in almost every season so far. Unfortunately that lack of cash/people meant after Brawn became Merc the previous year's work for next years car was... meh. Then it took them 2 years to increase spending and get in people. They did that pretty much by early last year which is why they had easily the biggest increase of anyone this year in competitiveness, just from too far back.
Thing is Merc have got their team in order BEFORE the 2014 car, get that right and you're going to be in a very strong position up to the next big rule change, get it wrong, you won't be.
Mclaren have finally got some good people signed up but frankly for too late, if they don't have a great car next year then don't expect the new aero guy to create miracles, expect Merc today situation. Improvement on a fundamentally flawed car underneath. Their driver situation is also an issue. If Mclaren screw up the 2014 car(based on this year I'd be surprised if they haven't), then the new aero guy won't even make a big difference till 2016.. Merc brought people in up to late 2010 because they can have a huge influence on the 2014 car. Mclaren not only utterly screwed this car, it was a horrible horrible move from the start. Everyone has tweaked the hell out of 4-5 year old cars, Mclaren have the least tweaked car with the least amount of testing, stupid idea from the very first second. Likewise Mclaren to do a new car would likely have put more work into 2013 than anyone else and almost certainly as a consequence less work on the 2014 car than most........ whoever thought a new car in 2013 was a good idea is a complete ******* retard. The resources and money that could all have gone on the 2014 car....... at the cost of pushing the team massively backwards. People should be fired for that level of incompetence IMHO. I think in all the extra effort on 2013 they've thrown away essentially any chance at a good 2014. Hamilton probably knew what was happening with the 2013 car, knew they were focusing on that rather than 2014... I wouldn't be surprised if he saw the writing on the wall and was a huge part of why he left, which is yet another terrible result of awful decisions Mclaren are making.
Either way, F1 would be more exciting even if Vettel lapped everyone because that car is soooo good, if the tyres actually let the drivers race. It's basic, cruise around at 85% of your limit, few to no mistakes, few engine failures, few troubles in general. Put every car at 98% of their limit because the tyres don't hurt them. The red bull would be pushed harder, it will fail more often, all their cars will. People will try harder overtakes without being massively punished for locking their brakes, braking late and overly hard, accelerating hard out of corners, going off line.
This season would have been better to watch even if Vettel won more races, if we had better tyres and everyone was trying harder. Alonso, Kimi, Hamilton, Vettel, just about everyone has said it's basically boring because they aren't racing the cars, but cruising. We as the viewers can feel Alonso's boredom, we can see when he wants to make a daring move on the outside but knows it will screw up his race. It's not fun because the drivers aren't having fun because they aren't actually racing, they are tyre conserving.
that they have to tweet car set ups/telemetry to the rest of the world 
