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This is the most exciting silly season I can remember, compounded by the lack of knowledge of what the 2014 regs will do to the running order. Fun times!
The naive 14 year old self thought this in 1994, when Benetton, Williams, Ferrari, Jordan*, Sauber** had shown the potential to win races. Yet 1995 provided an even bigger gap than before!
I've let me head speak above my heart since.
That said, you're right - 2014 has so many unknowns and as said, the number of moves over the winter are on a never-before-seen scale.
* Jordan, yeah, small team, but at Spa in 1994 Barrichello, on his one-stop strategy, was on for a podium at the very least (and inheriting the win when Schumacher was disqualified), and given the new Peugeot engine, who knew what might happen? A small jump forward was all that came along. And a bit more fire.
** Sauber were steadily moving forward since they'd entered in 1993, and in Frentzen they had a driver touted as better than Schumacher from their sportscar days. While I still think Frentzen was vastly underrated, in 1995 he and they only moved backwards. Should have won at Monaco the following year though - he was in form similar to Panis, but went and rammed that form into the back of Irvine.