Red Bull Racing need a strategist. Since its inception, the team has beefed up its technical ranks with the likes of Adrian Newey and Geoff Willis, and this year that effort has finally delivered a car that’s the undoubted class of the field - even without a double diffuser. The team’s drivers are both capable of winning races - and indeed Sebastian Vettel has done just that this year.

But in Spain - not for the first time - Vettel was sent out in qualifying with too much fuel to secure pole, which he deserved. Not only that, but his pit stop strategy wasn’t clever enough to give him any time with a clear track. So he spent the entire race behind Massa, getting nowhere.

Christian Horner runs a good team, but I’m not sure he’s the master strategist, or whether there’s someone else making the calls. But something needs to change in that area for Red Bull Racing, or the title is already Jenson Button’s.

McLaren need to stick together. Lewis Hamilton was quite revealing talking to the BBC after the race on Sunday:

“It’s just a shame they haven’t given me a car to defend the championship with. The car is that bad. I’m driving the socks off it. There’s just no hope.”

Hamilton saying “they haven’t given me a car” and not “we haven’t got a car” speaks volumes, if you ask me. He went on to talk about the team doing a “fantastic job”, but I’m not convinced that he’s convinced. Maybe the whole team needs to go on a team building day, building bridges in the grounds of a hotel in Northampton or something.

Ferrari need a bit of luck. They started the year badly, but now have a decent - if not magnificent - car, capable of solid points finishes and possibly the odd podium. In the Schumacher days they made their own luck, but that’s not the case any more. That was amply demonstrated at the weekend by the refuelling problem on Felipe Massa’s car, which forced him to slow down for the last few laps, losing places - and thus points - in the process. Actually, maybe it’s just Massa: he always seems to fall victim to the whim of the gods.

Williams need to deliver. Nico Rosberg has consistently featured towards the top of Friday practice time sheets this season, but his best race finish is 6th. But worse than that, the poor results have not been for one clear reason. Quotes from the team after the past two races are illustrative: “we’ll have to investigate that” after Spain, and “we’ll have to look and see what happened there” after Bahrain.

Toyota need consistency. This season they have been all or nothing: podiums in Australia, Malaysia and Bahrain; just two points in China, and none in Spain. I’m not sure why, more than any other team, they seem utterly erratic in their performance. Looking at their historic results, I’m not sure that’s even accurate. But there’s definitely something about the team that’s… a bit slapdash.

Renault need a new driver. Nelson Piquet is not going to last, and it’s accepted that Fernando Alonso will be at Ferrari either next year or the year after. So the sooner they can get the next big thing in the car and used to the team, the better.

Scuderia Toro Rosso need to go back in time to the back end of last season when they were fortunate enough to - arguably accidentally - be competitive. BMW Sauber need to go back in time too, because they’re not getting anywhere with this year’s car.

I’m not sure what Force India need. A technical partnership with one of the big teams? Oh, they’ve got that with McLaren, but still their results are no better than last season. Actually that’s not fair: they’re finishing races consistently, which is more than can be said for 2008.

As for Brawn GP, they just need to keep doing what they’re doing.