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		<title>The streets of Monaco supply the F1 drama</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2011/05/the-streets-of-monaco-supply-the-f1-drama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 06:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Monaco is always a fabulous weekend, with the drivers pitting themselves against the ultimate F1 challenge. Sergio Perez, Felipe Massa, Vitaly Petrov and all the other incidents just goes to show how little room for error there is on the streets of the principality. Vettel won a lucky race, Button and Alonso had the pace at various stages to beat him but circumstance prevented them from doing so. 
The race was fantastic with the drivers overtaking around the streets, though some did it better than others, Hamilton was lucky to walk away from the weekend with any points, if I was the stewards I&#8217;d have given him a drive through for the crash with Maldanado which would have meant a lot more than the 20s he had tacked onto his race time. He needs to calm down and focus, Button was unlucky not to win the race and Hamilton was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So Barcelona was a good race&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 04:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=838</guid>
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Yes I know that Sebastien Vettel won again but it wasn&#8217;t a walk in the park, and Lewis Hamilton nearly had him. But the race as a whole was good, Barcelona doesn&#8217;t always produce the best racing because the teams know the track so well &#8211; I guess it&#8217;s not as bad these days with the limited testing but still. It wasn&#8217;t even the DRS that helped, I don&#8217;t think it was massively down to the tyres either, though they clearly have an impact especially if this article about the Red Bull not being able to use all of it&#8217;s downforce is true.
Down the field there were battles between drivers all over though I think some of these were due to the tyres. This part of the racing seems to be settling down over time as people become used to the differential in pace and are running much more similar [...]]]></description>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=836</guid>
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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>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2011/05/istanbul/</link>
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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>Hamilton beats Vettel in China</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2011/04/hamilton-beats-vettel-in-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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What a weekend for Lewis Hamilton, fast in practice, third in qualifying, then a storming race where he showed why he&#8217;s a world champion. Jenson Button had no answer and neither did Sebastien Vettel, Lewis took the race win, he wasn&#8217;t gifted it, he didn&#8217;t have the ultimate fastest car and he had to pass people to win. It was another busy race but it already seems that the new rules are sinking in and if they provide racing like that then it can only be a positive thing.
Special mention must go out to Nico Rosberg who did a fantastic job and led the race for a good few laps, and to Felipe Massa as his form improves and he finishes ahead of Alonso again. The Toro Rossos did well in qualifying too, we&#8217;ve still yet to see the form of the new teams as they aren&#8217;t anywhere near the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2nd stop &#8211; Malaysia</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2011/04/2nd-stop-malaysia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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With a decent start to the season in Australia behind us the F1 circus moves to Malaysia. The Red Bull cars look unstoppable and with Martin Whitmarsh dampening hopes of McLaren staying in touch does this leave the fighting for third place as the best hope for anyone but Sebastien Vettel or Mark Webber?
The teams will come to Sepang and regard it as the first proper racing track &#8211; Australia is a street circuit and as such doesn&#8217;t have the same characteristics as a racing circuit. Sepang should let the DRS actually work and should show some more of the aero effects from the new rules.
Ferrari and McLaren will be hoping that they can get on terms with Red Bull and Mercedes will be hoping that they can figure out how to use their car. The tyres will play an important role and all the teams will be keen to [...]]]></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>Testing over, Australia is approaching</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2011/03/testing-over-australia-is-approaching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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So testing for the 2011 season is done, the teams have their data and we have the times. There isn&#8217;t many surprises within the testing times though I would have expected more from McLaren &#8211; not another year spent catching up? If Red Bull stop throwing away points McLaren don&#8217;t have a chance. Ferrari should push them hard and expect Alonso to want that title.
Australia is an odd place, it doesn&#8217;t seem to be that indicative of the season and doesn&#8217;t always show the true pace of the cars. We also know that you can win by being clever here as Jenson Button has shown. Don&#8217;t expect the Red Bull to be off the pace though, or for the brakes to explode, they will be hard to beat.
The tyres will be the great unknown in Melbourne as there isn&#8217;t really anywhere to use the new rear wing or Drag reduction device, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing continues in Spain</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2011/02/testing-continues-in-spain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Williams will have done their stock price no harm with this test showing as Rubens Barrichello pulled out the fastest time in Jerez. The testing regime doesn&#8217;t really allow for a comparison, we all saw what Sauber did last year in the pre-season &#8211; and look where they are again.
The headline times don&#8217;t tell the whole story as the big teams seemed to set the most consistent fast times with Red Bull and Ferrari looking the strongest of those. McLaren may have to play catch up yet again, if only they&#8217;d make it easy for themselves at the start of the year.
Mercedes seem in all sorts of trouble with issues with the car and not seeming like they have the pace, though again it is only pre-season and in F1 terms there&#8217;s still a long way to go until that first race.
Renault continue to evaluate drivers to replace Kubica who [...]]]></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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