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		<title>Hispania Racing F1 Team emerge from Campos Meta and unveil the car</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/03/hispania-racing-f1-team-emerge-from-campos-meta-and-unveil-the-car/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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HRT (Hispania Racing Team), the team to emerge from the Campos Meta outfit has finally released the Dallara car that has been promised for months. They also released the identity of Bruno Senna&#8217;s team mate &#8211; Karun Chandhok. If you haven&#8217;t heard of him it&#8217;s because he&#8217;s an unknown GP2 driver who&#8217;s won two races in the last three years and managed to haul himself to a massive 18th in the GP2 championship last year.
With this launch comes the promise that they might actually make the grid for Bahrain and at least confirms all of the entrys for the cars. I wonder how effective they will be, the car has never run, Karun Chandhok clearly isn&#8217;t a driver that can compete at the highest level in GP2 let alone F1 &#8211; he must have some backing &#8211; and Bruno Senna last drove an F1 car in 2008.
Bruno Senna has a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lotus take off the covers to their 2010 car</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Lotus unwrapped the car that will return an iconic name to F1 today, the team has completed a brief shakedown of the car at Silverstone so it works and they are scheduled to join all the other teams for the third test in Jerez next week.
The car looks very business like without some of the more refined aero features that we&#8217;ve seen from the other teams, I guess that reflects the limited time that they&#8217;ve had to build the car. The classic Livery is back however so it seems.
It&#8217;s great that another one of the new teams has actually delivered on building and lanuching a car, I have the same hopes for them as I did for Virgin, just to be on the back of the pack &#8211; perhaps even beat them once in a while. That will surely be the aim of Lotus initially anyway.
With Jarno Trulli and Heikki [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Bull launch their 2010 crusader</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Last years Red Bull very nearly won the world championship, if they had started the year with a double diffuser and Sebastien Vettel hadn&#8217;t been quite so hot headed then they would have won the championship, it&#8217;s that simple.
Therefore this years can is going to have to go one better to satisfy everyone and that can only be at the expense of teams such as Ferrari and McLaren which doesn&#8217;t happen that often, I think last year may have been their best hope.
That said they have Adrian Newey who has designed some amazing cars and this looks like one of them. The Red Bull livery makes it hard to discern the detail but there&#8217;s no reason to believe that they won&#8217;t have built a fast car &#8211; unless they spent all their efforts on last years car and this one has been built in the last four months. It&#8217;s possible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lotus complete Silverstone shakedown test</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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The Lotus team became the second newcomers to take to the track for real as they completed a shakedown at Silverstone, there&#8217;s an image of the car here from autosport. Nothing seems to have gone wrong at the test which is ahead of the official launch on Friday.
It&#8217;s impressive that the team have got a working car together in such short order &#8211; they haven&#8217;t been around as long as the other new teams and have beaten two of them to the track. I&#8217;m not sure that they would have learnt anything about the car other than that it works given the weather in the UK but then that&#8217;s a good start. A few years ago when reliability wasn&#8217;t what it is now that would have successful for any team.
The car in its iconic livery will join the F1 circus in Jerez for the third test of the season and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The new Force India is unveiled to the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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The new Force India has a lot to live up to, last year they placed second at GP and so this year, logically they should be aiming for a win. I doubt whether that is there aim though, more likely reliability and constant points finishes would be, helped in no small part by the new points system.
With rumours about the financial uncertainty of the parent company circling they will want to ensure that they speak through the times on the track and I guess there is no reason to suspect that the new car will be any slower than the old one. They have two drivers who have a decent amount of experience though no one like Giancarlo Fisichella this year to develop the car. The new car looks much the same as the others that have been released, I guess that&#8217;s not all that surprising given the stability of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing in F1 &#8211; what&#8217;s in store next week?</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/02/testing-in-f1-whats-in-store-next-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week's testing is almost over - that is if you count Virgin Racings shakedown at Silverstone a test, otherwise it was over on Wednesday. We got our taste of most of the big names in Valencia with Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Felipe Massa, Fernando Alonso, Michael Schumacher and more having a day at least each.]]></description>
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		<title>The Virgin completes it&#8217;s first laps</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/02/the-virgin-completes-its-first-laps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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The Virgin Racing VR-01 started it&#8217;s shake down at Silverstone today, completing it&#8217;s virgin laps. The car looks stunning, in part the colours and in part the design. The question remains though whether their design method will be able to compete with the other teams.
Timo Glock gave the car it&#8217;s firt few laps at Silverstone ahead of it&#8217;s test in Jerez next week, they&#8217;ll do more mileage tomorrow.
I&#8217;m still interested to know the design methodology, whether this is a completely human designed car that has been informed by the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) or whether they&#8217;ve closed the design loop and let the software &#8211; Nick Wirth&#8217;s CFDynamo &#8211; optimise the design. I know quite a lot about optimisation algorithms and only a few spring to mind that they could use and though the computational power needed would be immense, it is entirely possible. There doesn&#8217;t seem to be any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The third day of testing with Button, Schumacher and Alonso, Ferrari top again</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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The last day of the Valencia test finished with Ferrari remaining on top and Sauber rooted in second place. Fernando Alonso had his first taste of a Ferrari today and didn&#8217;t disappoint the thousands of fans that turned up at the Spanish circuit by completing over 100 laps and posting the fastest time of the test.
Sauber also continued to impress by running second for the third day with Pedro de la Rosa confirming that their pace is as real as can be seen at this time of year, and that the other teams have some work to do. Jenson Button had a much more low key start to his McLaren career only posting the fifth fastest time and slower than Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s time yesterday.
The two rookies on track today sit at the bottom of the times with Hulkenberg someway off the pace. But at least they both got some miles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virgin launch the CFD car</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Today Virgin launched their car online on their website, the CFD only &#8211; no windtunnel &#8211; designed car will hit the track later in the week and they will become the first new team to put some real miles on the car.
The car designed by Wirth Research was set to be unveiled on the teams website but it seems that release had been delayed for a while and that we all had to wait, not the best start for a team that has relyed on it computational expertise to design the car. Hopefully the systems are engineered by different people.
The car itself looks somewhat smoother than the other cars, and it&#8217;s striking red and black colours with more flat surfaces, we&#8217;ll have to see what it runs like tomorrow.
With the driving partnership of Timo Glock and Lucas di Grassi they&#8217;ll be hoping for some problem free days of running to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mercedes take the wraps off</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Mercedes finally took the wraps of their first works car for years at the start of the Valencia test. It sports the colour scheme that was on the car for the team launch but was unveiled to much less fanfare at the test and has already completed it&#8217;s first shake down.
The testing duties on the first day fall to both Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher though Rosberg drove the car initially. I guess getting an up to date driver to take the car out first makes sense though it surprises me that Schumacher wasn&#8217;t behind the wheel &#8211; perhaps things are more equal at Mercedes than we give them credit for.
With only Red Bull absent from the test we should see some comparative times even if they don&#8217;t mean a lot, we&#8217;ll see if some are really struggling with the new cars at least, remember the Brawn always looked quick [...]]]></description>
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