Ideal Teams and Drivers for F1 2013

[domi-kun]

I'd like to hear what would be your favorite, at least semi-realistic team and driver lineup for year 2013 in F1, meaning no dead or ancient drivers. The limit of drivers is 24 and 2 per team.
Here's my lineup.

Team:

Team: Red Bull
Engine: Renault
Livery: The one they have at the moment
Drivers: Sebastian Vettel, Mark Webber

Team: Ferrari
Engine: Ferrari
Livery: Red with Marlboro as main sponsor
Drivers: Fernando Alonso, Felipe Massa

Team: McLaren
Engine: Mercedes
Livery: Silver West Livery.
Drivers: Lewis Hamilton, Sergio Perez

Team: AMG
Engine: Mercedes
Livery: The one at the moment
Drivers: Michael Schumacher, Nico Rosberg

Team: Lotus
Engine: Renault
Livery: Black and Gold JPS
Drivers: Heikki Kovalainen, Romain Grosjean

Team: Williams
Engine: Honda
Livery: Canon / Camel livery of the 1990's
Drivers: Valtteri Bottas, Adrian Sutil

Team: Jordan
Engine: Toyota
Livery: Benson and Hedges snake livery of 1997
Drivers: Nico Hülkenberg, Vitali Petrov

Team: Sauber
Engine: Mercedes
Livery: Tissot Livery of 1994
Drivers: Paul di Resta, Sebastien Buemi

Team: Toyota
Engine: Toyota
Livery: Blue and White Konica Minolta as in 1980's Lemans car
Drivers: Timo Glock, Kamui Kobayashi

Team: Honda
Engine: Honda
Livery: Lucky Strike BAR-Honda livery
Drivers: Jenson Button, Daniel Ricciardo

Team: Ligier
Engine: Renault
Livery: Blue Gitanes livery
Drivers: Jean-Eric Vergne, Charles Pic

Team: Minardi
Engine: Cosworth
Livery: 1993 BMS-Lola flames livery with Chesterfield sponsor
Drivers: Bruno Senna, Vitantonio Liuzzi

[Phoenix]

Here's my proposal:

Red Bull Racing
-Livery: the current one
-Engine: Renault
-Drivers:
#1 Sebastian Vettel
#2 Jaime Alguersuari

McLaren
-Livery: the current one
-Engine: Honda
-Drivers:
#3 Lewis Hamilton
#4 Fernando Alonso

Ferrari
-Livery: Italian Racing Red with only Shell logos and big white numbers, gold rims
-Drivers:
#5 Felipe Massa
#6 Sergio Pérez

Mercedes AMG
-Livery: plain silver
-Drivers:
#7 Kimi Räikkönen
#8 Nico Hülkenberg

Lotus
-Livery: black and gold (not the current wax yellow they use), gold rims
-Engine: Ford
-Drivers:
#9 Paul di Resta
#10 Robert Kubica

Jordan
-Livery: yellow and black, black rims
-Engine: Honda
-Drivers:
#11 Nico Hülkenberg
#12 Adrian Sutil

Sauber
-Livery: black and silver, silver rims
-Engine: Mercedes-Benz
-Drivers:
#14 Nico Rosberg
#15 James Calado

Minardi
-Livery: anything that isn't ugly
-Engine: Ferrari
-Drivers:
#16 Pastor Maldonado
#17 Esteban Gutiérrez

Williams
-Livery: white and green
-Engine: Renault
-Drivers:
#18 Kamui Kobayashi
#19 Jenson Button

Jaguar Racing
-Livery: the one used by Jaguar in 2000
-Engine: Ford
-Drivers:
#20 Heikki Kovalainen
#21 Will Power

USGP
-Livery: metallic navy blue, red and white
-Engine: Chevrolet
-Drivers:
#22 Ryan Hunter-Reay
#23 Alexander Rossi

Marussia
-Livery: the one used by Virgin in 2010
-Engine: Toyota
-Drivers:
#24 Timo Glock
#25 Felipe Nasr

BMW M Sport
-Livery: white, blue and red
-Drivers:
#26 Mark Webber
#27 Romain Grosjean

[pycku]

My proposal:

1. Red Bull Renault
-Livery: the current one
-Engine: Renault
-Drivers:
#1 Sebastian Vettel
#2 Mark Webber

2. Mclaren Honda
-Livery: the current one
- Drivers:
#3 Jenson Button
#4 Kimi Raikkonen

3. Ferrari
- Livery: the current one (maybe + marlboro brand)
-Drivers
#5 F. Alonso
#6 Sergio Perez

4. Mercedes
- Livery: more or less the same
- Drivers
#7 Lewis Hamilton
#8 Michael Schumacher

5. Lotus Renault
- Livery: the current one
- Drivers
#9 Nico Rosberg
#10 Bruno Senna

6 Sauber Ferrari
- Livery: the black from 1993
-Drivers:
# 11 K. Kobayashi
# 12 A. Sutil

7. Williams Renault
-Livery: the old blue from 90s
-Drivers:
#14 N. Hulkenberg
# 15 P. Maldonado

8. Tyrell Renault?
-livery: their original blue
- Drivers:
#16 H. Kovalainen
# 17 F. Massa

9. Jordan (Renault or Mercedes)
-livery: yellow
-drivers:
#18 Paul di Resta
# 19 R. Grosjean

10. Brabham (Ferrari or Mercedes)
- livery: Martini blue-white
drivers:
# 20 Davide Velsechi
# 21 T. Glock

[Salamander]

Red Bull-Renault
Livery: Current
1. Sebastian Vettel
2. Mark Webber

McLaren-Honda
Livery: The old West livery from 1997-2005
3. Jenson Button
4. Sergio Perez

Ferrari
Livery: Current
5. Fernando Alonso
6. Robert Kubica (fully healed, of course)

Mercedes
Livery: Current
7. Nico Rosberg
8. Vitaly Petrov

(Lotus-)Renault
Livery: The yellow-and-black 2010 livery
9. Romain Grosjean
10. Pastor Maldonado

Sauber-Ferrari
Livery: The Petronas livery from the early 2000s would be nice, but they sponsor Mercedes, soooo... the original black one, I guess.
11. Kamui Kobayashi
12. Robert Wickens

Williams-Renault
Livery: The Canon livery from the 80s and early 90s
14. Lewis Hamilton
15. Kimi Raikkonen

Jordan-Mercedes
Livery: Benson & Hedges
16. Paul di Resta
17. Nico Hulkenberg

Minardi-Ferrari
Livery: The classic Black White & Yellow one
18. Jaime Alguersuari
19. Heikki Kovalainen

HRT-Ford Cosworth
Livery: Current
20. Pedro de la Rosa
21. Dani Clos

Honda
Livery: Lucky Strike
22. Felipe Massa
23. Timo Glock

Ligier-Honda
Livery: Gitanes
24. Jean-Eric Vergne
25. Charles Pic

USF1-Ford Cosworth
Livery: No idea
26. Ryan Hunter-Reay
27. Alexander Rossi

[Ataxia]

Red Bull-Renault
Livery: The version they used on the Jag R5 during testing
1. Sebastian Vettel
2. Mark Webber

McLaren-Honda
Livery: An orange one would be pretty cool I guess...
3. Jenson Button
4. Kamui Kobayashi

Ferrari
Livery: More like the early 90s, where black replaces the white and with Agip sponsorship.
5. Fernando Alonso
6. Sergio Perez

Mercedes
Livery: Something similar to the AMG DTM livery...
7. Nico Rosberg
8. Robert Wickens

Toleman-Renault
Livery: 1984 TG184 livery...with some blue chip sponsors.
9. Bruno Senna
10. Johnny Cecotto Jr.

Jordan-Mercedes
Livery: 7UP
11. Kimi Raikkonen
12. Pastor Maldonado

Sauber-Mercedes
Livery: The black one from '93.
14. Nico Hulkenberg
15. Romain Grosjean

Minardi-Ferrari
Livery: Similar to the '95/'96 livery
16. Davide Valsecchi
17. Luca Filippi

Williams-Honda
Livery: Canon livery from mid '80s
18. Lewis Hamilton
19. Paul di Resta

DAMS-Honda
Livery: Yellow & Black
22. Jean-Eric Vergne
23. Felipe Massa

HRT-Ferrari
Livery: The one they have now...
22. Jaime Alguersuari
23. Dani Clos

Marussia-Cosworth
Livery: Current livery
24. Max Chilton
25. Charles Pic

Brabham-Cosworth
Livery: like the BT55
26. Heikki Kovalainen
27. Esteban Gutierrez

[UncreativeUsername37]

Red Bull-Renault
1. Sebastian Vettel
2. Mark Webber

Ferrari
3. Fernando Alonso
4. Sergio Perez

McLaren-Mercedes
5. Lewis Hamilton
6. Jenson Button

Lotus-Renault
7. Kimi Raikkonen
8. Romain Grosjean

Sauber-Ferrari
9. Kamui Kobayashi
10. Esteban Gutierrez

Mercedes
11. Michael Schumacher
12. Davide Valsecchi

Force India-Mercedes
14. Nico Hulkenberg
15. Jules Bianchi

Williams-Renault
16. Pastor Maldonado
17. Valtteri Bottas

Toro Rosso-Renault
18. Jean-Eric Vergne
19. Antonio Felix da Costa

Marussia-Honda
20. Timo Glock
21. Nick Heidfeld

Caterham-Honda
22. Heikki Kovalainen
23. Vitaly Petrov

HRT-Honda
24. Pedro de la Rosa
25. Bruno Senna (I don't like him or anything, but HRT need the money)

Honda
26. Rubens Barrichello
27. Robert Wickens

[pycku]

I even couldn't have imagined that there are people who see HRT in the Ideal teams list

[Salamander]

I even couldn't have imagined that there are people who see HRT in the Ideal teams list

You are aware this is F1 Rejects, right?

[pycku]

Okay, but there are teams such as Mclaren, Ferarri and Red Bull here. I understand people like Minardi and Jordan, I symphatized them, but HRT comes too much to me...

[Salamander]

Okay, but there are teams such as Mclaren, Ferarri and Red Bull here. I understand people like Minardi and Jordan, I symphatized them, but HRT comes too much to me...

Too much what?

[pycku]

Too much rejects

[TomWazzleshaw]

Too much rejects

This is F1 Rejects. You can never have too many rejects

[RonDenisDeletraz]

Too much rejects

Too much blasphemy

[Salamander]

Too much rejects

Too much blasphemy

This. A thousand times, this.

[Londoner]

Team: Stewart
Engine: Ford Cosworth
Livery: The 1998 one
Drivers: Mark Webber, Jaime Alguersuari

Team: Ferrari
Engine: What do you think?
Livery: The 1995 one
Drivers: Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel

Team: McLaren
Engine: Honda
Livery: Marlboro red and white
Drivers: Jenson Button, Sergio Perez

Team: Benetton Formula
Engine: Renault
Livery: The late 1980s blue, green, red, yellow
Drivers: Kimi Raikkonen, Romain Grosjean

Team: Brawn GP
Engine: Honda
Livery:The 2009 one, but with a major sponsor, probably Lucky Strike.
Drivers: Nico Rosberg, Kamui Kobayashi

Team: Sauber
Engine: Mercedes
Livery: The 2001 one
Drivers: Nico Hulkenberg, Max Chilton

Team: Jordan
Engine: Ford Cosworth
Livery: 1996 gold
Drivers: Heikki Kovalainen, Davide Valsecchi

Team: Caterham
Engine: Caterham
Livery: British Racing Green
Drivers: James Calado, Vitaly Petrov

Team: Manor GP
Engine: Ford Cosworth
Livery: Red, grey, white, whatever
Drivers: Rob Wickens, Charles Pic

Team: Minardi
Engine: Mugen-Honda
Livery: Green and black
Drivers: Pedro De La Rosa, Mitch Evans

Team: HRT
Engine: Ford Cosworth
Livery: The 2011 one
Drivers: Dani Clos, Adrian Sutil

Team: Williams
Engine: Renault
Livery: Canon
Drivers: Pastor Maldonado, Paul Di Resta

[takagi_for_the_win]

Ferrari
Livery- pre 1996 red, black wing endplates, gold rims
1. Fernando Alonso
2. Michael Schumacher

BAR- Honda
Livery- 2006 one
1. Jenson Button
2. Takuma Sato

Benetton- Renault
Livery- mid 90's Mild Seven
1. Jarno Trulli
2. Giancarlo Fisichella

Arrows- BMW
Livery- Orange, with pale blue rims
1. Pedro de la Rosa
2. Vitaly Petrov

Jaguar- Cosworth
Livery- BRG, white sidepods, gold rims
1. Mark Webber
2. Sebastien Buemi

Jordan- Honda
Livery- 1998 B&H one
1. Nick Heidfeld
2. Timo Glock

Lotus- Renault
Livery- black and gold JPS
1. Romain Grosjean
2. Sebastian Vettel

McLaren- Mercedes
Livery- West livery
1. Lewis Hamilton
2. Kimi Raikkonen

Minardi- Cosworth
Livery- 1997 one
1. HWNSNBM
2. Gimmi Bruni

Renault
Livery- blue and yellow, 2002-06
1. Heikki Kovaleinen
2. Nico Hulkenberg

Sauber- Ferrari
Livery- blue and teal Petronas from late 90's
1. Felipe Massa
2. Kamui Kobayashi

Williams- Renault
Livery- Canon and Camel from early 90's
1. Nico Rosberg
2. Pastor Maldonado

Force India- Mercedes
Livery- current one
1. Adrian Sutil
2. Paul di Resta

[gnrpoison]

Teams
1. Red Bull
Engine: Renault V10
Livery: Current one
Drivers: Vettel and Webber
Title Sponsor: Red Bull

2. McLaren
Engine: Honda V10 or V12
Livery: Marlboro years
Drivers: Hamilton and Button
Title Sponsor: Marlboro, Shell

3. Ferrari
Engine: Ferrari V12
Livery: Early 90s with Agip etc
Drivers: Alonso and Kubica
Title Sponsor: Marlboro, Agip

4. Toleman
Engine: Ford Cosworth V8
Livery: 1989 Benetton
Drivers: Raikkonen and Kovalainen
Title Sponsor: Camel, Benetton

5. Tyrrell Ford
Engine: Ford Cosworth V8
Livery: 1995 livery
Drivers: Rosberg and DiResta
Title Sponsor: Nokia

6. Williams
Engine: Renault V10
Livery: 1991 - 1993 livery
Drivers: Hulkenberg and Maldonado
Title Sponsor: Camel/Canon/Sega

7. Sauber Mercedes
Engine: Mercedes V10
Livery: Silver Arrows or Black
Drivers: Kobayashi and Massa
Title Sponsor: AMG

8. Team Lotus
Engine: Lamborghini V12
Livery: 1987 - 1990 Lotus one
Drivers: Senna and Petrov
Title Sponsor: Camel, ELF

9. Minardi
Engine: Ferrari V12
Livery: 1991 Minardi
Drivers: Alguersuari and Ricciardio
Sponsors: European Airlines

10. Jordan
Engine: Ford Cosworth V8
Livery: 1991 Green and Blue
Drivers: Buemi and Perez
Sponsors: 7 UP

11. HRT Dallara
Engine: Ford Cosworth V8
Livery: Current 2012 one
Drivers: De La Rosa and Liuzzi
Sponsors: Tata, Pirelli

12. Ligier
Engine: Renault V10
Livery: 1996 or 1989
Drivers: Grosjean and Pic
Sponsors: Loto, Gitanes

If allowed 13th team
13. Arrows
Engine: BMW I4 Turbo
Livery: early 2000s
Drivers: Glock and Heidfeld
Sponsors: Orange

[dinizintheoven]

USF1-Ford Cosworth
Livery: No idea

Oh say can you see, all y'all have to do is trade the Dodge badge for a Ford. Yeeeeeeeee-haaaaaaaw!

[dr-baker]

USF1-Ford Cosworth
Livery: No idea

Oh say can you see, all y'all have to do is trade the Dodge badge for a Ford. Yeeeeeeeee-haaaaaaaw!

A few other options:


Although we don't want to confuse this with a Ferrari now, do we? Because we know that those good folk at Ford were sure that customers would confuse a Ford F150 with a Ferrari F150...

[TomWazzleshaw]

USF1-Ford Cosworth
Livery: No idea

Oh say can you see, all y'all have to do is trade the Dodge badge for a Ford. Yeeeeeeeee-haaaaaaaw!

A few other options:


Although we don't want to confuse this with a Ferrari now, do we? Because we know that those good folk at Ford were sure that customers would confuse a Ford F150 with a Ferrari F150...

For the record, reading that post with the Hulkster's "Real American" theme makes those posts ten times more hilarious

[takagi_for_the_win]

Because we know that those good folk at Ford were sure that customers would confuse a Ford F150 with a Ferrari F150...

Easy mistake to make...

[/sarcasm]

[pi314159]

I'll do 2014, as I think that major changes for 2013 are unrealistic:

McLaren
Engine: Mercedes
1 Sergio Perez
2 Jenson Button

Ferrari
Engine: Ferrari
3 Fernando Alonso
4 Nico Hülkenberg

Red Bull
Engine: Renault
5 Sebastian Vettel
6 Daniel Ricciardo

Sauber
Engine: Ferrari
7 Esteban Guiterrez
8 Heikki Kovalainen

Williams
Engine: Honda
9 Pastor Maldonado
10 Valtteri Bottas

Toleman-Benetton-Renault-Lotus
Engine: Renault
11 Kimi Räikkönen
12 Felipe Massa

Mercedes
Engine: Mercedes
14 Paul di Resta
15 Lewis Hamilton

Tata Motors (former Force India)
Engine: Tata (rebadged Cosworth)
16 Jules Bianchi
17 Timo Glock

Minardi (former Toro Rosso)
Engine: Ferrari
18 Daniel Juncadella
19 HWNSNBM

Marussia
Engine: Mercedes
20 Max Chilton
21 Rio Haryanto

Caterham
Engine: Honda
22 Charles Pic
23 Arthur Pic

HRT
Engine: PURE
24 Dani Clos
25 Narain Karthikeyan

Honda
Engine: Honda
26 Kamui Kobayashi
27 Takuma Sato

Coloni
Engine: Ferrari
28 Davide Valsecchi
29 Luca Badoer

DAMS
Engine: Renault
30 Romain Grosjean
31 Jean-Eric Vergne

Paffett-Filippi Racing
Engine: PURE
32 Gary Paffett
33 Luca Filippi

OK, the last one was a joke

[pasta_maldonado]

Here's my crack at this, mine is not too realistic but based on what I would like to see

Team:

Team: Red Bull
Engine: Renault
Livery: The one they have at the moment
Drivers: Sebastian Vettel, Jaime Alguersuari

Team: Ferrari
Engine: Ferrari
Livery: Red with Shell on sidepods, prancing horse emblem on Engine Cover, and black wings with AGIP on them
Drivers: Fernando Alonso, Nico Hulkenberg

Team: McLaren
Engine: Mercedes
Livery: West Livery, but the red vodafone on the sidepods. It'll actually look quite good IMO
Drivers: Jenson Button, Sergio Perez

Team: AMG Mercedes
Engine: Mercedes
Livery: The one at the moment
Drivers: Romain Grosjean, Lewis Hamilton

Team: Williams
Engine: Honda
Livery: 80's early 90s livery
Drivers: Pastor Maldonado, Kimi Raikkonen

Team: Sauber
Engine: Ferrari
Livery: Marlboro livery, but light blue Telmex colour.
Drivers: Heikki Kovalainen, Paul di Resta

Team: Marussia
Engine: Toyota
Livery: 2010 livery
Drivers: Kamui Kobayashi, Max Chilton

Team: HRT
Engine: Honda
Livery: Some sort of repsol meets spanish flag thing
Drivers: Pedro de la Rosa, Dani Clos

Team: Honda
Engine: Honda
Livery: Lucky strike, if not Panasonic red, like Toyota used to be but without none of the paint brush rubbish.
Drivers: Jean-Eric Vergne, Jules Bianchi

Team: Carlin P.U.R.E
Engine: P.U.R.E.
Livery: Dark blue
Drivers: Vitantonio Liuzzi, Giedo van der Garde

Team: Stefan GP
Engine: P.U.R.E.
Livery: Like the F1RMGP one
Drivers: Vitaly Petrov, Johnny Ceccotto Jr.

[FMecha]

Somehow, this thread remembers me of this MinardiFan95's post.

[Sunshine_Baby_[IT]]

REDBULL:
Livery: their present livery
Drivers: Sebastian Vettel, Mark Webber

MCLAREN:
Livery: Marlboro livery
Drivers: Jenson Button, Nico Rosberg

FERRARI:
Livery: red and white as in 1993
Drivers: Fernando Alonso, Kamui Kobayashi

LOTUS:
Livery: their present livery
Drivers: Kimi Raikkonen, Felipe Massa

MERCEDES:
Livery: their present livery
Drivers: Lewis Hamilton, Paul Di Resta

SAUBER:
Livery: Petronas livery (2004-2005)
Drivers: Sergio Perez, Pastor Maldonado

WILLIAMS:
Livery: 1997 livery
Drivers: Bruno Senna, Adrian Sutil

FORCE INDIA:
Livery: their present livery
Drivers: Nicolas Hulkenberg, Narain Karthikeyan

MINARDI:
Livery: 1989 livery
Drivers: Daniel Ricciardo, HWNSNBM (he's just 31, he hasn't to be considered as an ancient driver?)

CATERHAM:
Livery: a livery with Angry Birds sponsorship
Drivers: Heikki Kovalainen, Charles Pic

MARUSSIA:
Livery: everyone except the present one
Drivers: Vitaly Petrov, Jean Eric Vergne

HRT:
Livery: 2010 livery
Drivers: Pedro De La Rosa, Jaime Alguersuari

[QuickYoda41]

Red Bull
Vettel
Ricciardo

McLaren
Button
Perez

Ferrari
Alonso
Kobayashi

Lotus
Räikkönen
D'Ambrosio

Mercedes
Hamilton
Rosberg

Sauber
Hülkenberg
Gutierrez

Force India
Di Resta
Alguersuari

Williams
Maldonado
Bottas

Toro Rosso
Frijns
Da Costa

Caterham
Kovalainen
Pic

Marussia
Glock
Chilton

HRT
Valsecchi
Clos

DLR, Schumacher, Webber, Massa retire, Grosjean is banned for a year, the others left out are just not good enough.