A team by team guide to the new F1 season:

McLaren

Have for first time in a long time got it right in testing. Look like they have a decent engine and a neat chassis.Matching Ferrari in testing. Alonso the youngest ever double world champion. Match made in heaven.Lewis Hamilton has a lot to prove, but should score some useful points.

Ferrari

The dream team of Schumacher, Ross Brawn et al may be broken up, but the legacy lives on. Have been class act of the testing field in pre-season. Add that to lightning quick driver pairing and the future's bright. A sparky battle between the two drivers surely in the offing.

BMW-Sauber

Force of the future? On the evidence of last year's rapid ascent and pre-season form, the answer's yes. Good driver pairing will score plenty of points and their consistency and pace is likely to outshine Fisichella and Kovalainen. But only if the team sorts out niggling reliability issues.

Williams

Frank Williams' slide down the pecking order continues as his privateer team status begins to impact heavily. They reportedly have a tidy, useful car, but just without the kind of potency a manufacturer engine can bring. The driver pairing is cheap and cheerful too.

Honda

It's all going horribly wrong at the Japanese team. Genuine progress and a great end to 2006, has turned to mush as the 2007 car has been shockingly slow in testing. Jenson Button may have picked up a maiden win last year but there are few signs he will double his tally this season.

Super Aguri

Exciting times at Japanese minnow. They've inherited last year's pretty decent Honda car (it won a race in Hungary for Button) and they have a force of will which is hard to match in the paddock. The heart says they should climb out of the basement. Go with the heart.

Red Bull Racing

Not good news on the fizzy drink front either. First Red Bull car by Adrian Newey hasn't been roaring success the team expected. If problems can be sorted, expect Webber and Coulthard to lift them to mid-table, though qualifying performances will likely outshine race ones.

Renault

Reckoned by some to have slipped off the pace during the winter with test results steady but unimpressive. The 34-year-old Fisichella in last chance saloon after spending two seasons being destroyed by Alonso. Kovalainen will look to seal the Italian's fate.

Jordan

Jordan became the unlovely Russian-owned Midland and now becomes Dutch-owned Spyker. They have Ferrari engines which should bring a boost, but technical director Mike Gascoyne has already admitted 2007 is likely to be a difficult test.Spyker

Toyota

Dark days at the Japanese team's Cologne HQ. The TF107 car appears to be a dog and not the kind that inspires aahs of sympathy from those left to deal with it. Trulli and Ralf Schumacher have attempted to sound positive, but the terror in their eyes has been plain to see.

Scuderia Toro Rosso

What's there to say? The back- marking trio should begin with the second Red Bull team, but probably won't as there just isn't the impetus to take them through a tough season. Drivers have underwhelmed too. Time for co-owner Gerhard Berger to look elsewhere for pilots.