In all honesty, I cannot see it anymore. Every year I delude myself there will be a return to former glories but it is not going to happen. We appointed two new guys today, there is an awful lot of pressure on their shoulders, along with Mike Coughlan...
As for the new regs... Every time they are 'reset' as such, the team are always super confident yet always come up short, even when they have a good idea like the double diffuser, or this year with the short gear box. I am not sure what they can do anymore to improve, but they seem to be stuck in a mid-table groove with no apparent way of moving out of it.
For me, at the very least:
Parr has to go, from what I've read he really annoys most of the team and seems overly arrogant, there must be better candidates for his position?!
Symonds has to come in, him and Coughlan I think would do a good job as between them they've been there and done that. I'm highly dubious of the two new guys (Somerville and Gillan) given their most recent experience was with Toyota (although admittedly Somerville was with Renault from the end of last year).
Barrichello needs to be retired- His technical prowess seems over-rated given the muddling form the team has shown since he arrived. Good one race, missing the next... Now Maldonado is pushing him close at some circuits there seems even less reason to cling on to the master-whinger.
Maldonado- I am not sure about him, my gut says drop him but he is doing a little better now so maybe deserves a second season, but so did Hulkenberg, just he lacked the cash sadly.