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		<title>Full year report: Ferrari</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2011/02/full-year-report-ferrari/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Ferrari&#8217;s season comes in three parts, the first was the race in Bahrain. People started mentioning red wash again and it looked like the season was going to be interesting from third place down, but then they imploded and couldn&#8217;t string together a good result for much of the middle of the season. They did however keep picking up the points. Then comes Germany and they haven&#8217;t looked back since, Alonso said they needed to finish on the podium for all the remaining races and he has &#8211; sending him up the order.
Fernando Alonso has had an impressive season, Ferrari always seems a hard team to integrate with and get up to speed but Alonso managed it. He has continually put his car into the points even when it has been slower than some of the those around him, something he carried forward from his recent seasons at Renault. Ultimately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full year report: Force India</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Force India are another team that has gone backwards in 2010, it shows how hard it is to maintain any competitive edge in F1. They haven&#8217;t helped themselves in terms of drivers, Sutil and Liuzzi haven&#8217;t hit it off and don&#8217;t seem to be pushing each other in the right ways. It seems that they just need a little more pace but if the drivers weren&#8217;t having to concentrate on each other they might find it.
Adrian Sutil hasn&#8217;t been at his best this season, gone is the confident young driver who would consistently put in good performances and was hampered by failures of the car, in is the reckless driver who&#8217;s scruffy performances are starting to call into question how much the car failures were down to the team.
Vitantonio Liuzzi&#8217;s season could have gone better, after a few years out he returned and hasn&#8217;t made much of an impression on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full year report: Sauber</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2011/02/full-year-report-sauber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[kamui kobayashi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nick heidfeld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pedro de la rosa]]></category>
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Sauber have had a good year given where they started from, the car wasn&#8217;t as fast as it could have been but Kobayashi makes sure that they always have a chance of points, had they not had the unreliability that they had at the start of the year they might have done more with it but still a solid year.
Kamui Kobayashi has displayed the excitement that we&#8217;ve come to expect from Japanese drivers and has scored points in races he had no business doing so. He could have benefited from some more help from the team in some races but he&#8217;s also shown he doesn&#8217;t need it. If he can curb the overly ambitious side of his driving he could be a force to be reckoned with.
Pedro de la Rosa didn&#8217;t last the whole year, I don&#8217;t think it did that badly overall he had some terrible bad luck early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full season report: Virgin</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2011/02/full-season-report-virgin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Virgin came into F1 with the only CFD designed car and have been the slowest out there really, HRT never really got going performance wise. After their terrible blunder with the size of the fuel tank they do seem to have found the time to move forward speed wise and have sometimes beaten the Lotus team, with a major new investor they should have the finances to push the team forward.
Timo Glock has been a solid driver for Virgin, he has pushed the car and moved the whole project forward, he hasn&#8217;t really been racing anyone all year though as there are no other teams at the same pace other than an occasional Lotus.
Lucas di Grassi hasn&#8217;t performed as well, he has been involved in some ridiculous incidents and apart from the occasional blinder in qualifying hasn&#8217;t done much form the driving side, I wonder if a young Russian driver [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full year report: Renault</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2011/02/full-year-report-renault/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Renault have flattered to deceive all year, in practice they are fast, Robert  sometimes even gets them near the front in qualifying but the never seem to be able to convert in into race pace. Vitaly Petrov hasn&#8217;t exactly excelled in the other car and they don&#8217;t seem to have had the development regime of the other teams.
Robert Kubica has been the star of the Renault show and if there were places at one of the top teams he would be heading there, but as there isn&#8217;t he&#8217;ll be at Renault next year plugging away trying to ensure that he stays on peoples radar, he might even get a podium.
Vitaly Petrov hasn&#8217;t impressed all year, he has had accident after incident and hasn&#8217;t been consistent in any way. If he hadn&#8217;t paid for his drive I doubt he&#8217;d still be racing, Flavio would have had him out races ago.
Renault need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full year report: Williams</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2011/02/full-year-report-williams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Williams have had a lacklustre season, they haven&#8217;t really threatened other than when the track is damp, and even then not the front. Barrichello has hauled the car into the points on more occasions than it deserved and Hulkenberg has started to pick up the places too but ultimately a lack of pace on long runs has meant that they fade on a Sunday even when they have done well in qualifying.
Rubens Barrichello is the most experienced guy in F1 and he has shown it this year with some decent races finishes and the fact that Williams have bee able to develop the car at such a pace. It will be ashame if he bows out of F1 without a fanfare, but I can&#8217;t see why he would.
Nico Hulkenberg had a lot to prove coming into this season, the field is a wash with young Germans and he hasn&#8217;t done [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full year report: Hispania</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2011/02/full-year-report-hispania/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bruno senna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christien klien]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[karun chandhok]]></category>
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Hispania Racing only just made the start of the season and are rooted to the bottom of the standings. Their car just isn&#8217;t fast enough and has never looked like being so. They have swapped drivers around and haven&#8217;t had an experienced driver to drive the car. With funding for next year still uncertain and the team never really having got started it seems deals with Williams are the next best thing. If they start next year then they need to start putting in performances that trouble the bottom teams otherwise why bother.
Bruno Senna all of his uncle attitude but I haven&#8217;t seen the raw pace or the fire, maybe it&#8217;s hidden inside the awful car but he needs to provide something for people to get excited about if he wants to stay in F1, his name will only get him so far.
Karun Chandhok was a nice guy who was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full year report: Toro Rosso</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/12/full-year-report-toro-rosso/</link>
		<comments>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/12/full-year-report-toro-rosso/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Toro Rosso have been invisible much of the year, mainly because they have been nowhere on pace, perhaps because you always assume that it&#8217;s a Red Bull. For the first year in which they have built their own car I guess it&#8217;s not that bad but I wonder what was expected.
Jaime Alguersuari has had a solid year, he has built on previous experience and puts in solid performances, though he can still be prone to some of his more childish behaviours. He needs to show next year that he is a quality driver that has been learning the ropes if he wants to move up the grid, I don&#8217;t think that Toro Rosso can do it for him.
Sebastien Buemi hasn&#8217;t really featured in anything this year, apart from the odd accident. Which is the same as last year, how many more &#8216;goes&#8217; does he get before he ends up on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full year report: Lotus</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/12/full-year-report-lotus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 05:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Lotus have consistently been the best of the new teams &#8211; but don&#8217;t let that convince you, Mike Gascoyne knows that isn&#8217;t good enough and they are hard at work trying to ensure that next year they are always within a shout of some points, can they do it? Who knows but they stand the best chance.
Jarno Trulli has provided Lotus with a solid platform to both identify the problems with the car and develop what they have for next year, he ensures that they know the car is on the limit and that they are getting the best out of it.
Heikki Kovalainen has also had a good year, he has provided a solid benchmark and pushed Trulli all year. He has provided the team with it&#8217;s best finish this year and hasn&#8217;t thrown the car of the road like some of the other drivers in new teams.
Lotus have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full year report: Mercedes</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/11/full-year-report-mercedes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Mercedes bought the Brawn team and convinced Michael Schumacher to return to F1 but have achieved little else. They have been the fourth best team on the grid for most of the season and they&#8217;ll be disappointed by that. Ross Brawn will be pushing hard to improve things for next year but it remains to be seen whether they can build something that can challenge the other teams. They seem to have got bogged down in the midfield to many times this year, whether that is because the car is hard to use in passing or whether it is just a lack of pace we&#8217;ll never know. 
Nico Rosberg has had an impressive season, he has continually bettered Michael Schumacher and has impressed the team. That said he hasn&#8217;t set the world on fire, but that could be the car too. He needs to beat Schumacher in 2011 too if [...]]]></description>
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