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		<title>Vettel reigns supreme in Turkey</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2011/05/vettel-reigns-supreme-in-turkey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 12:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Sebastien Vettel treated everyone to an F1 master class from Saturday morning onwards, despite the fact that he wrecked his car in Friday practice, he set the fastest time in morning practice, was so confident of pole that he didn&#8217;t do a second run in qualifying, and won the race without ever looking like anyone could beat him, I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll be pissed that Mark Webber got the fastest lap.
Alonso put in an amazing performance to finish third with the Ferrari and McLaren have some thinking to do going to Barcelona, as have Mercedes who again couldn&#8217;t hold it together during the race despite holding second after the first lap. It was a race full of disappointment for most of the grid really, Williams will wonder what they are doing wrong as the best they could manage was 15th and Felipe Massa will wonder how he managed to finish outside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Istanbul</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 12:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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So F1 is off to Turkey to see if McLaren can still chase down the Red Bulls, will the Ferrari have found what was wrong with their car and improved &#8211; Was it just Alonso&#8217;s head adding drag to the car? Have Mercedes managed to get to the bottom of the tyre issues? Will Williams actually get going at all this year?
We&#8217;ve had a great start to the season, exciting races, close finishes &#8211; and some controversy on the track. All we need now is for the title race to close up and we&#8217;ll be on for a eye popping year in F1. It could however all go horribly wrong, Vettel could streak out into the lead, McLaren could falter and we could all be watching Mercedes and Sauber fight over 6th to 10th.
Turkey normally has an exciting race, turn 8 in particular takes no prisoners and punishes bad aero. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alonso vs. Sauber in fairness</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2011/04/alonso-vs-sauber-in-fairness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=832</guid>
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In Australia Sauber&#8217;s cars crossed the line in seventh and eight places, they were then disqualified because of a technical infringement on the car. A (supposedly) non performance critical part was a few millimetres outside the allowed margin, Sauber sucked it up, said they were wrong, improved their process and got on with their lives. Ferrari weren&#8217;t punished at all for the malfunction on Alonso&#8217;s DRS in China.
So what is different about the two cases and why were Sauber punished and not Ferrari? If Sauber are to be believed then their infringement wasn&#8217;t a performance gain whereas Ferrari&#8217;s most certainly could have been so that argument is moot given that Alonso wasn&#8217;t punished. Could it have been the pure infringement of the rules that caused Sauber&#8217;s penalty? Well Ferrari&#8217;s DRS system was clearly active in an area of the track where it shouldn&#8217;t have been and so directly contravened the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia provides an appetizer for the 2011 F1 season</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2011/03/australia-provides-an-appetizer-for-the-2011-f1-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Melbourne took on the task of staging the first GP of the 2011 season and did a pretty good job. Sure it&#8217;s a street circuit and doesn&#8217;t show up some of the real pace of the cars, and the new DRS systems couldn&#8217;t be used to their full potential but it was a good, interesting, and lively start to the year. I&#8217;m not sure that Bahrain would have offered the same experience.
So Vettel took his first win of the year and started his title defence in the best way possible, Hamilton showed that he&#8217;s not going to let Vettel get away if he can help it and Alonso showed that he is top dog at Ferrari. Button, Webber and Massa all had weekends that they would rather have gone differently but they all scored points which was important last year so they shouldn&#8217;t be as downhearted as guys like Kobayahsi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full year report: Ferrari</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2011/02/full-year-report-ferrari/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=765</guid>
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Ferrari&#8217;s season comes in three parts, the first was the race in Bahrain. People started mentioning red wash again and it looked like the season was going to be interesting from third place down, but then they imploded and couldn&#8217;t string together a good result for much of the middle of the season. They did however keep picking up the points. Then comes Germany and they haven&#8217;t looked back since, Alonso said they needed to finish on the podium for all the remaining races and he has &#8211; sending him up the order.
Fernando Alonso has had an impressive season, Ferrari always seems a hard team to integrate with and get up to speed but Alonso managed it. He has continually put his car into the points even when it has been slower than some of the those around him, something he carried forward from his recent seasons at Renault. Ultimately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vettel secures his first title with an amazing end to the season</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/11/vettel-secures-his-first-title-with-an-amazing-end-to-the-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Sebastian Vettel won the last race of the season at Abu Dhabi and in doing so took the F1 drivers title as both Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso floundered to seventh and eighth places. He becomes the youngest F1 world champion and seems to be set to build on that next year, if he can drop the mistakes then he will be very hard to unseat next year.
The race was somewhat disappointing after all of the build up and the Renaults made sure that Hamilton couldn&#8217;t challenge Vettel for the lead and that Alonso&#8217;s hopes faded as he couldn&#8217;t get past. The McLarens late season pace secured the end for Alonso and Webber as they needed the places, it will forever remain a mystery as to why McLaren didn&#8217;t have that pace for the last few races.
Vettel won this championship with a storming last part of the season, the other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The drivers title will be decided on Sunday 14th of November</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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So the F1 circus heads to Abu Dhabi with four men who could win the title and an unbelievable number of mathematical possibilities. Alonso is the only man who can not finish the race and still win &#8211; though it&#8217;s unlikely that he would. Webber really must win to give himself the best chance to beat Alonso though he really needs the Spaniard to finish fourth or better to deny Vettel the chance of the title and thereby gaining an ally. 
Qualifying will pose a unique challenge this weekend too given that a slip up by any of the top three drivers could mean an end to their championship hopes. It seems that Alonso has the advantage of experience in these matters but both Vettel and Webber have shown to be tough contenders this year. With the Red Bull car in such form it seems that the Ferrari man will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The title goes to the wire as Vettel takes the honours in Brazil</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 07:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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With Vettel winning in Brazil the title goes to the next race in Abu Dhabi, the same result would see Alonso lift the crown but surely even Red Bull would switch the drivers so that they take the title, it&#8217;s not like Alonso could whinge about that. 
It was a good race fro Red Bull, apart from Hulkenberg sitting on pole they had pretty much the perfect weekend, and to top that they came away with the constructors crown. Red Bull deserve the constructors title this year, they clearly have the best car and arguably have had for the last season and a half. Adrian Newey really was worth all of that money.
Webber should be pleased with the weekend, although Vettel can still win the title,  Alonso only has to finish 5th to ensure that Vettel can&#8217;t take the crown. With the Ferrari looking everybit as if it is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Porsche return to F1 with Williams?</title>
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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>Brazil approaches &#8211; and Alonso could take the title but where did it start</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/11/brazil-approaches-and-alonso-could-take-the-title-but-where-did-it-start/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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For the first time in the season someone could take the title, though it seems unlikely if Alonso repeated the results of Korea then he&#8217;d be world champion for the third time. It marks an amazing turn around from mid season where the Ferrari team looked nowhere.
Looking back over the season the Ferrari has never been that slow, but they have had some terrible luck with safety cars and some bad reliability. The fact that Alonso is leading the world championship is down to Ferrari though and the fact that they have concentrated on Alonso for some time. His fortunes turned with the infamous &#8216;he is faster than you&#8217; moment and he&#8217;s never really looked back since.
Now that Alonso has won the most GP and is at the top he looks every bit the world champion and Red Bull are going to find it hard to beat him, even with [...]]]></description>
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