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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>Williams, Force India and Sauber</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/04/williams-force-india-and-sauber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 season]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bmw sauber]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=662</guid>
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Before the season started the general opinion was that Williams, Force India and Sauber would be contesting those places that the big teams didn&#8217;t occupy. With four major teams and ten scoring places that leaves two slot and so it has played out with Vitantonio Liuzzi and Rubens Barrichello scoring points at both the opening races.
The drivers that have scored the points may raise a few eye brows as Adrian Sutil seems to be the driver that most consider number one at Force India and there was the expectation from some that Nico Hulkenberg would show up Rubens Barrichello this year. It seems that F1 experience may count for something when you&#8217;re running on the margin of the points and have to take advantage of what&#8217;s on offer.
Sauber are still lacking any points and given their pace in the pre-season testing this seems to be somewhat of a shock, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What happened to the Ferrari&#8217;s in Australia?</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/03/what-happened-to-the-ferraris-in-australia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Ferrari promised from Bahrain that they were going to be one of the cars to beat this season and then they seemed to fade in Australia. How much of this was due to the weather and how much of this was due to Alonso&#8217;s first lap spin?And was there anything else at play?
It seems that the Ferrari team are playing it safe this year &#8211; they aren&#8217;t taking extra risks like coming in for tyres or changing to early &#8211; I&#8217;m not saying that it was the wrong decision but I think it is why we hardly saw the Ferraris all race apart from Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s onboard camera. They had a solid race, they finished 3rd and 4th after all but they had promised much more &#8211; it seems odd that they couldn&#8217;t pass the Renault of Robert Kubica but then if the paddock is to be believed you need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virgin hoping that they&#8217;ve finally solved their reliability issues</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/03/virgin-hoping-that-theyve-finally-solved-their-reliability-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[finishing races]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[new teams]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sakhir]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=636</guid>
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The Virgin team are confident that they have solved the reliability issues that meant that their car hasn&#8217;t run for more than 18 laps or so yet. This means that they have addressed the hydraulic problems that they have had since the launch of the car and the transmission problems that they had at Sakhir.
Virgin impressed at Bahrain by qualifying fastest of all the new teams and then disappointed on race day by not managing to make the first set of stops. The hydraulic issues that put out one of their cars out in Bahrain seems the same as the one that they claimed to have solved after the pre-season testing where they had these issues &#8211; it seems that the fix didn&#8217;t work and they now have a &#8216;robust&#8217; solution to the problem, let&#8217;s hope that&#8217;s true.
They also had transmission issues in Bahrain and these would seem separate from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking forward to the Australian GP&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/03/looking-forward-to-the-australian-gp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=617</guid>
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The Australian GP is now less than a week away and with all the main teams having had a week to digest what happened in Bahrain what can we expect from the various players? Will the Ferrari&#8217;s run away with the race again? Will the Red Bull have and an answer? Will Michael Schumacher be on the pace? Will the McLaren be fast enough to challenge?
It seems that the Australian GP is a much less predictable track though it does seem to show who&#8217;ll win the championship as over the last ten years only twice has the winner not gone on to clinch the title. It seems unlikely that the Ferrari will romp away with the victory this time out as the other teams may have the pace here. The McLaren&#8217;s rear wing won&#8217;t help them too much but any time counts.
Michael Schumacher should be more on the pace here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hispania Racing target finishing in Australia</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/03/hispania-racing-target-finishing-in-australia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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The HRT Cosworth team boss Colin Kolles has come out and said that the team are targeting a finish in Australia and have been working flat out to achieve this. He said that just turning up in Bahrain was against the odds.
It seems that the team have some work to do with Karun Chandhok crashing in Bahrain and Bruno Senna&#8217;s car blowing an engine &#8211; I guess they don&#8217;t really have to worry about the 10 place grid penalty, or the 5 place gear box penalty. I wonder if they have to pay Cosworth per engine. I wonder how many spare parts they have for the car with all the problems that they&#8217;ve had with Chandhok&#8217;s car.
Finishing in Australia is probably quite ambitious given that Senna&#8217;s 18 laps are the farthest the car has ever gone. It is good to see a realistic aim though, getting one of the cars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What happened to BMW Sauber Ferrari in Bahrain?</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/03/what-happened-to-bmw-sauber-ferrari-in-bahrain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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In pre-season testing the Sauber cars were quick, they weren&#8217;t the fastest but they showed a turn of pace that was going to challenge for those last points positions and maybe the big four on occasion. However they turn up at Bahrain and were nowhere &#8211; were they running light in testing, and if they were why?
Some of the problem may come from the fact that the weather was so different at the two venues that tyre wear would have been very different and the cars would have required a completely different setup. Which leads into the first option &#8211; the car is very difficult to setup. This would explain some of the lack of pace as they have much less time at a GP than in testing to optimise the settings, and know the trade offs for the race.
Another option is that the team were simply running light in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the words &#8216;Red Wash&#8217; be spoken this year given the Ferraris performance in Bahrain?</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/03/will-the-words-red-wash-be-spoken-this-year-given-the-ferraris-performance-in-bahrain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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The Ferraris put on a good show in Bahrain, they we&#8217;re surprised to see Sebastien Vettel take pole and I suspect that they may have had a little more to give had they thought he could put the Red Bull there. In the race they were reeling in the Red Bull before he had his problem and it seems that they were so much faster once released, it may have been a matter of time until they passed anyway, given that no one else seemed close could we have seen the first race of another so called &#8216;Red Wash&#8217; season?
I think from the second that Ferrari chose to give up on the 2009 car there has been the distinct possibility that 2010 would be a Ferrari year, they have poured more time and effort into the 2010 car than anyone else on the grid and given their technical capability that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How did the new teams do in the first race?</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/03/how-did-the-new-teams-do-in-the-first-race/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Bahrain played host to three brand new teams this year, Lotus, Virgin Racing and HRT Cosworth/Hispania Racing. After months of preparation it was their first taste of F1 proper with nothing to hide behind.
Lotus performed the best of the new teams, they had a seemingly problem free weekend with their cars both going on to almost finish the race &#8211; they were both classified as finishers though. They were off the pace and even got outqualified by one of the Virgin cars but the results happen on race day. Top marks for their effort though and as they were the last team to be granted their entry they have done a fantastic job, it shows what bringing in F1 experience can do.
Virgin Racing put on a reasonable show though neither car finished the race due to technical issues &#8211; one hydraulic related and one with gearshift problems. The car looked [...]]]></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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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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