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		<title>Lots of action in Malaysia except for Vettel who marches on</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2011/04/lots-of-action-in-malaysia-except-for-vettel-who-marches-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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The Malaysian GP was full of overtaking, pit stops, accidents, etc&#8230; but is was serene for Vettel at the front as he waltzed off to his second victory and a 24pt lead in the championship. Jenson Button who described his own race as &#8220;confusing&#8221; finished up in second as he put his McLaren where it needed to be and kept hold of his tyres for long enough to make it stick. Heidfeld confirmed the pace of the Renault as he took the last podium place with Webber taking a hard earned fourth spot. 
The DRS was used for the first time really in Malaysia and seemed to work quite well at certain points, i.e. getting people along side the other guy (Mark Webber used it a few times), but sometimes it seemed to spoil the show as the car using it just drove clean by &#8211; though you have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Germany and the Ferrari farce</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/07/germany-and-the-ferrari-farce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=727</guid>
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The German GP was a good one apart from a single corner that has overshadowed the whole weekend. Qualifying showed that the Ferraris are back on form and that it&#8217;s a six car race each time out. Hopefully that also means that the championship will stay tight at the front as Red Bull seem insistent on throwing away all the advantages that they get. McLaren also need Ferrari to take these points away from Red Bull at a point in the season when their challenge has faded a little. With the top few in title so close and all in competitive cars it should be a great run in.
The race itself was won (more on that later) in the first corner, Vettel was too concerned with Alonso that Massa drove clean past them both and with that distraction Alonso took second place too. The Ferraris also had the form of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With three races down &#8211; is the new points system working if Felipe Massa is leading?</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/04/with-three-races-down-is-the-new-points-system-working-if-felipe-massa-is-leading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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With three races completed, Bahrain, Australia and Malaysia there have been three winners so far, Fernando Alonso, Jenson Button and Sebastien Vettel but it&#8217;s Felipe Massa who leads the Championship. It may be by only 2 points but it seems strange that a points system that was designed to give winning races more emphasis is being led by a driver who hasn&#8217;t won yet.
The table itself is very close with 9pts covering the first 7 drivers:



1. Felipe Massa
Ferrari
39


2. Fernando Alonso
Ferrari
37


3. Sebastian Vettel
Red Bull Racing
37


4. Jenson Button
McLaren
35


5. Nico Rosberg
Mercedes GP
35


6. Lewis  Hamilton
McLaren
31


7. Robert Kubica
Renault
30



Though I doubt this will hold all season it does mean that you can hold onto the people who are winning even if you don&#8217;t manage it yourself. I&#8217;m sure that Felipe Massa will be wanting to win and justify that position at the top but with all the different people who seem to be in with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did the new refuelling rules for F1 work in Bahrain?</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/03/did-the-new-refueling-rules-for-f1-work-in-bahrain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=584</guid>
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This years Bahrain GP saw the introduction of a new rule, that the teams can&#8217;t refuel the car once it has left the pit lane for the race. This means that the cars must carry enough fuel for the entire race from the start. This means extra weight in the car for the whole distance and the end of the short sprints between pit stops.
When the rule was announced it was unclear what it would achieve in terms of improving the action but it seems the goal was to get rid of the sometimes confusing middle section of the race where different drivers are on different strategies and aren&#8217;t really racing each other. The teams are still required to run both tyre compounds during the race so the cars have to stop at least once but that stop can happen at any point in the GP now as the window [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McLaren&#8217;s rear wing and the prospect of provisional results</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/03/mclarens-rear-wing-and-the-prospect-of-provisional-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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The rear wing of the the McLaren &#8211; or rather the mechanism that can affect the effectiveness of the rear wing at high speed on the McLaren has been questioned by the other teams ahead of Sundays race. The stewards have passed it as legal and the FIA have backed them up on this, but with the propect that one of the other teams could appeal or lodge a protest then the race result may end up being provisional.
The issue centres around the device on the McLaren which allows the driver to change the airflow over the rear wing. Normally the device will be shut and won&#8217;t effect the airflow at all but at high speed the driver can open the flap which will then let the air pass through the chassis and exit over the rear wing which has the effect of stalling it, reducing drag and therefore increasing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With Bahrain just a week away, what&#8217;s new for F1 in 2010?</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/03/with-bahrain-just-a-week-away-whats-new-for-f1-in-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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The first race of the 2010 F1 season in Bahrain is just a week away, it seems like it&#8217;s been a long winter. There are many things that are different (I won&#8217;t say new) this year in F1. New rules, new teams, new drivers and we&#8217;ll all see who&#8217;s done the best job over the last few months.
There are a few new rules this year such as the refueling ban and the ban on wheel spinners. As well as technical changes like the tyre size and the new points system of 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1. I may not agree with all of them &#8211; especially the refueling ban, I just don&#8217;t see how it can possibly improve overtaking &#8211; but they are here and the teams and drivers must make the best use of them.
We will have three new teams on the grid for the first race of the season, Virgin, Lotus and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retirements in 2009 and what that means for 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/02/retirements-in-2009-and-what-that-means-for-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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In 2009 there were 68 retirements from the races, that doesn&#8217;t seem very many considering what the sport was like only a few years ago. Even better when you see that 22 were accidents, 12 were spins, 1 was Hamiltons disqualification, 1 ran of of fuel and 1 withdrew. That leaves 31 mechanical retirements for the whole season, less than two a race.
What does this mean for 2010, bluntly that the drivers should be more careful. With so many rookies in the field this I&#8217;d expect accidents and spins to get worse not better this year but the established drivers should take note of these things. The cars are reliable and the drivers are now the weak link.
From these stats it seems that the engine homologation has at least done one thing, made the engines reliable. With only two failures last year and the engines running for two races it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s with all these long runs in the F1 tests? It&#8217;s all down to the tyres.</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/02/whats-with-all-these-long-runs-in-the-f1-tests-its-all-down-to-the-tyres/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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The first two Formula 1 pre-season tests seem have included more long runs than in previous years, but why? I&#8217;d say that it&#8217;s down to the refueling rule changes for the 2010 season as well as some of the technical regulations around the size of the tyres.
Last year with the re-introduction of slick tyres the teams kept the same size tyres that they had in the grooved days this meant that proportionally the front tyres gained more grip. This was because both front and rear had four grooves that were now part of the contact patch, with the rear tyre being wider it meant that the four grooves worth of grip supplied was less in percentage terms than returning the four grooves to the front. This change upset the balance of the car with the front now being more grippy than the rear. The 2010 regulations revert this balance by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The new Force India is unveiled to the world</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/02/the-new-force-india-is-unveiled-to-the-world/</link>
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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>No more wheel spinners, another new 2010 F1 rule</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/02/no-more-wheel-spinners-another-new-2010-f1-rule/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Another of the new rules for 2010 is that the teams can&#8217;t use the spinners that became popular in the last couple of years. These used to smooth the airflow over the wheels and ensure they caused minimal turbulence and drag. It also used to improve rear downforce and cooling.
These little gadgets had many benefits to the teams so it&#8217;s hard to see that they would have abandoned them without a fight but then the whole Alonso debacle where the spinner wasn&#8217;t fitted correctly and eventually tore the wheel free may have softened them up on that one. With the teams fighting for every inch I&#8217;ll be interested to see what the teams can do to claw back the positive sides to these devices.
It does mean that pit stops will really all be about getting the tyres on and off this year, there&#8217;s no room for any mistakes. I seem to [...]]]></description>
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