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		<title>Will Porsche return to F1 with Williams?</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/11/will-porsche-return-to-f1-with-williams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 07:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Martin</dc:creator>
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The Mexican grand prix in 1991 was the last time that a Porsche powered F1 car raced. In the hands of Michele Alboreto and Alex Caffi, the Footwork Porsche cars failed to qualify for most races and when they did make the start the cars wouldn’t last long before suffering reliability gremlins. It was an unfitting end to the German manufacturer tenure in the sport, with them having won three world championships in the 1980s with Mclaren. However, Porsche may be about to put all of this right.
The appeal of F1
Formula One is still massively popular, with Formula One Management suggesting that a global audience of about 600 million people see at least some F1 action every single year. It’s appeal is universal and it has made global megastars out of the likes of Lewis Hamilton, Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso. Nigel Mansell can still make money from his association [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The surprising speed of Sauber and de la Rosa</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/02/the-surprising-speed-of-sauber-and-de-la-rosa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weeks F1 testing has shown that the Sauber C29 is no slouch, I said that they might just pull something out of the bag but I wasn't expecting that. Sauber firmly planted themselves in second place for all three days.]]></description>
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		<title>Sauber launch</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Peter Sauber&#8217;s team unveiled their new car yesterday and though it got little press I think it&#8217;s a more exciting proposition than the Renault one. Peter Sauber describes himself as a reluctant owner but he&#8217;s always put in the effort with F1 and sold BMW a pretty handy team. 
The new car looks kind of bare without any of the customary sponsorship but then the Brawn looked like that last year, it sports a higher nose than some of the other cars but retains the long fin of the McLaren. I will watch with keen interest how Sauber do this year though barring a huge surprise I don&#8217;t expect much from them really.
With Kamui Kobayashi and Pedro de la Rosa driving for them this season they really do have the experience and the excitement though I&#8217;m not sure how de la Rosa got the nod ahead of Nick Heidfeld but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renault with a Russian and new colours</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Renault have now launched their car and announced the driver to partner Robert Kubica. Vitaly Petrov will pilot the second Renault for 2010, he makes history as the first Russian to enter F1, no mention of the money he could bring though.
The new Renault doesn&#8217;t look as sharp as the McLaren or the Ferrari but the 2005/6 cars didn&#8217;t either and look what they did. I love the new colour scheme though it does remind me somewhat of Eddie Jordan&#8217;s team. It will look good on track, and if their design team has managed to stay insulated from all the happenings at the team over the past 12 months they might produce something &#8211; I guess we&#8217;ll have to wait until Bahrain to see if they have managed it.
Vitaly Petrov seems an odd choice as the second driver but I guess they couldn&#8217;t have done worse than Romain Grosjean. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Williams it might just come good</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Williams have as good a chance as anyone this year to make a go of it, I&#8217;m not saying that they will win the championship &#8211; I think that might be beyond them but I think they can return to the type of form we saw a few years ago.
In 2009 they showed promise at some of the races with Nico Rosberg, and they have had one of the most stable winter breaks of all the teams, with Rubens Barrichello joining them they have the safe and fast hands of F1s most experienced driver to get the best from the car and the young and exciting talent of Nico Hulkenberg, another fast german.
Since BMW let Williams seem to have been slowly rebuilding the team that showed so much innovation to bring home so many titles and I hope that they continue in this vein, Sam Michael seems to have everything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sauber &#8211; the return</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/01/sauber-the-return/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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When BMW announced that it&#8217;s foray in F1 was over it seemed that the BMW Sauber team was destined to dissappear, but Peter Sauber couldn&#8217;t just let his old team go. So he&#8217;s back at the helm, it&#8217;s unclear what is left of his old operation or of BMWs investment but it is clear that it&#8217;s going to be hard work to get any results this season.
They have an interesting driver partnership for 2010, Pedro De la Rosa, an old hand I&#8217;ll give you that but not exactly a top billing, but then much more interestingly the Young Japanese Kamui Kobayashi from Toyota, this is the guy that went wheel to wheel with Jenson Button last year with some pretty spectacular driving. It was a shame when I thought he&#8217;d lost his chance with the demise of Toyota and I&#8217;m really excited to see him driving again. This pairing doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Boys</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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The 2010 season sees four new teams appear on the grid, along with the return of Peter Sauber who takes back the BMW team. Indeed the manufacturer defection goes even further as Renault have sold a large chunk to an investment firm, with only Mercedes coming into F1 we&#8217;re looking at a season full of independent teams. The Final list for 2010 is:

Mercedes
Red Bull
McLaren
Ferrari
Sauber
Williams
Renault
Force India F1
Toro Rosso
USF1*
Campos*
Virgin*
Lotus F1*

* = new team
I&#8217;ve said before that I think the old teams will have a tremendous advantage going into this year where not many of the regulations have changed, not to mention the experience of the teams at these new organisations. Presumably they have experienced staff with Toyota shutting up shop and Brawn laying off half their staff at the beginning of the year but they won&#8217;t have all been racing together before. The Mercedes and Sauber teams will also have restructuring to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The mad world of F1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Over the course of the last few years F1 has seen a lot of turmoil, from so called &#8217;spygate&#8217; to the breakaway series. All of these issues detracted from the sport in unsavory ways. This year really put all of that behind and got on with business, even the whole Singapore 08 scandal couldn&#8217;t get that much press coverage compared to the on track action. Next year looks to be even more eventful on track with up to six more cars on the grid, I do wonder however whether they will be six more cars worth watching.
Next year the lineup in F1 will be as follows (from formula1.com);
TEAM / CONSTRUCTOR
SCUDERIA FERRARI MARLBORO / FERRARI
SCUDERIA TORO ROSSO / STR TBA
RED BULL RACING / RBR RENAULT
AT&#38;T WILLIAMS / WILLIAMS TOYOTA
FORCE INDIA F1 TEAM / FORCE INDIA MERCEDES
CAMPOS GRAND PRIX / CAMPOS COSWORTH
MANOR GRAND PRIX / MANOR COSWORTH
TEAM US F1 / TEAM US [...]]]></description>
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