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		<title>No Bahrain? Australia to start? What will Ferrari and Nico Rosberg do?</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2011/02/no-bahrain-australia-to-start-what-will-ferrari-and-nico-rosberg-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2011 season]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[season]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bernie eccelstone]]></category>
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With the political unrest currently in the Middle East spreading into Bahrain over the past week the world of F1 seems set to end up making some sort of political statement. They have a scheduled test and then the first GP of the year both set to happen in the next month in a country that is beginning to show the same dissatisfaction as other Middle Eastern countries and bar Iran they have succumbed to the pressure and had to do something.
F1 will want to keep it&#8217;s hands clean in the political sphere to avoid harming and future deals with either the current or any future power holders in the country but without a swift end to the protests it can&#8217;t justify aligning itself with any faction that would be the case were the GP to be held. I suspect that the situation will have calmed down for the race [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stefan GP and Toyota split up &#8211; for now&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/03/stefan-gp-and-toyota-split-up-for-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/03/stefan-gp-and-toyota-split-up-for-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 season]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=625</guid>
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Stefan GP &#8211; the team that tried and failed to take US F1&#8217;s position on the grid &#8211; has had a set back to it&#8217;s plans to enter F1. It&#8217;s main point was that it had the Toyota car, offices and technical support but now that agreement that was based upon Stefan GP actually gaining an entry has come to an end and the Stefan GP outfit has nothing again.
It seems that this saga will not end &#8211; though it does mean that Zoran Stefanovic is determined and that usually gets you what you want in F1. Bernie also still seems behind the outfit saying that it&#8217;s not all done and dusted and that we may yet see the team on the grid this year &#8211; though they would have to buy US F1&#8217;s entry and jump over some pretty big FIA hurdles to pull that one off. If this [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/03/how-did-the-new-teams-do-in-the-first-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 season]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[analysis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bruno senna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[f1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finishers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first race]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hrt cosworth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[karun chandhok]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[new boys]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[timo glock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[us f1]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=592</guid>
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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>What can we expect form HRT Cosworth today?</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/03/what-can-we-expect-form-hrt-cosworth-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 season]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[debut]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[limited running]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=559</guid>
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HRT Cosworth or Hispania Racing have made it to the first GP, they&#8217;ve managed to get both cars out on track &#8211; just &#8211; and have got both drivers into the race. Bruno Senna had much more running that Karun Chandhok who just got two runs in qualifying and so did amazingly well to get as close to Senna as he did. 
The team have has a few dramas over the weekend with the hydraulics issues that they&#8217;ve had with Chandhok&#8217;s car and the issue with the wheel nut on Senna&#8217;s car at the end of practice on Friday. These type of issues are to be expected from such a new team really and as Chandhok says is the problem when they are forced to conduct what is essentailly a shakedown in public.
So what can we expect from them in the race? I think that we may have to expect [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 season]]></category>
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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>The Bahrain GP &#8211; the track, the tests and a prediction</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/03/the-bahrain-gp-the-track-the-tests-and-a-prediction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 season]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=469</guid>
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F1 has just under a week to go until the first winner of 2010 will lift the trophy. It all starts in the Kingdom of Bahrain at the Sakhir circuit. It&#8217;s been on the calendar since 2004 and has provided some good racing, it stays in it&#8217;s position of the first race from last year having deposed the Australian GP. 
This year the drivers will run on the full length circuit compared to the Grand Prix circuit. This change takes that circuit from 5.412 km to 6.299 km and adds a twisty in field section after turn 4, the drivers will run 49 laps for a total race distance of 308.651 km. It will be the first few miles of running in anger for the new teams and the new drivers to F1, lets hope that they can all keep it together for those first few corners.The first corner is tight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the FIA failed entirely in expanding the grid</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/02/how-the-fia-failed-entirely-in-expanding-the-grid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=332</guid>
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When it was announced that the FIA would be looking for new teams to bolster the F1 grid I was surprised &#8211; isn&#8217;t this a club where you have to know Bernie and have had dinner with him a few times plus have filled his pockets with gold before you can fill in the form? But no, they were indeed opening up F1, and they had a lot of applications.
The FIA (and Bernie) should have looked at the applications that were tabled and then thrown away the financially unsound ones and then looked at what was left, there was a lot of talk about due diligence  at the time. This process was obviously not through enough, two of the teams that were granted entry have been sold and bought before the new season has even started (Campos Meta and Manor), and a third is rumoured to have mounting financial problems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lotus take off the covers to their 2010 car</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/02/lotus-take-off-the-covers-to-their-2010-car/</link>
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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>Virgin pass on most of the testing for the second day</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/02/virgin-pass-on-most-of-the-testing-for-the-second-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=227</guid>
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Virgin Racing have made it to the second test of the season but must be hugely frustrated at only having completed a handful of laps over the two days and still being wildly off the pace.
Being 8 seconds adrift is an age in F1 and if it&#8217;s because of the weather and the limited running then that is understandable but I fear it could be more deep routed than that. It&#8217;d be interesting to compare the Force India&#8217;s or the Renault&#8217;s first few laps to those times though to be sure.
It seems that their engineering standards aren&#8217;t as high as they need to be for F1 at the moment either with the front wing coming off the car during it&#8217;s first run in the morning. The team say that the cause has been identified and with the parts that they should be getting overnight then we should see more of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing times in Jerez, they really are&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/02/testing-times-in-jerez-they-really-are/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Todays test in Jerez involved all of the current F1 teams along with the first new team to show it&#8217;s colours &#8211; Virgin Racing. With last weeks test throwing up some surprises we&#8217;d expect this weeks one to be even more exciting.
The test didn&#8217;t disappoint &#8211; apart from the weather &#8211; there&#8217;s not that much comparison to do between the times as all the cars would have been trying out different setups and tyres to see where the wet/inter cut off is but seeing a Mercedes with Nico Rosberg firmly at the top might be a little ominous. Fernando Alonso would have been disappointed not to be faster and Sauber with Kamui Kobayashi stayed just below the Ferrari it&#8217;s just that time that meant fifth place.
McLaren and Jenson Button still don&#8217;t seem to be able to get it together with the sixth fastest time but Sebastien Buemi (Toro Rosso) and [...]]]></description>
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