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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>
				<category><![CDATA[2011 season]]></category>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=834</guid>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[2011 season]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=830</guid>
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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>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>Testing for the new season begins</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2011/02/testing-for-the-new-season-begins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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The 2011 began in Valencia as the teams set out to prove that their news cars are up to speed. Some teams opted to miss this first test entirely or run their old car, most notable of these was McLaren. While some may criticise that decision it didn&#8217;t seem to affect Red Bull last year who didn&#8217;t even attend the first test.
Robert Kubica ended the last day fastest, showing that the Renault may yet have some pace this year, though he may not get to drive it again due to his accident. The Red Bulls seems to be putting it some solid runs but the Mercedes car still doesn&#8217;t seem to have much pace compared. The picture is far from clear in testing though with different fuel loads run lengths and testing programmes at play. We&#8217;ve also yet to see some of the new cars for comparison.
Testing continues this week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full year report: Mercedes</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/11/full-year-report-mercedes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=769</guid>
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Mercedes bought the Brawn team and convinced Michael Schumacher to return to F1 but have achieved little else. They have been the fourth best team on the grid for most of the season and they&#8217;ll be disappointed by that. Ross Brawn will be pushing hard to improve things for next year but it remains to be seen whether they can build something that can challenge the other teams. They seem to have got bogged down in the midfield to many times this year, whether that is because the car is hard to use in passing or whether it is just a lack of pace we&#8217;ll never know. 
Nico Rosberg has had an impressive season, he has continually bettered Michael Schumacher and has impressed the team. That said he hasn&#8217;t set the world on fire, but that could be the car too. He needs to beat Schumacher in 2011 too if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full year report: McLaren</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/11/full-year-report-mclaren/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=763</guid>
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McLaren have had a solid if not exceptional season, they have won races and at the beginning showed pace that would have worried Red Bull. Their challenge faded though as they haven&#8217;t managed to keep up with the development at either Red Bull or Ferrari, which is unlike McLaren.
Jensen Button has proven that he isn&#8217;t the push over that so many people thought he would be and that Lewis Hamilton hasn&#8217;t had it all his own way, he has performed solidly all season though he has found himself in positions where he&#8217;s had to take the risky option &#8211; however it has paid off for him this year. He&#8217;ll be hoping that next year McLaren will build a car that is more predictable as unlike Lewis he  finds it hard to cope with an unstable car.
Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s season has shown flashes of brilliance with flashes of stupidity, without some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ferrari take the title by the horns as Red Bull implode</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/10/ferrari-take-the-title-by-the-horns-as-red-bull-implode/</link>
		<comments>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/10/ferrari-take-the-title-by-the-horns-as-red-bull-implode/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 05:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Korea was always going to be an odd event, the track wasn&#8217;t finished, the teams knew nothing about the surface and it had the specter of rain. What rain it was too, apart from causing the race start to be delayed an hour it meant that no one out there was confident &#8211; apart it seemed from Lewis Hamilton. Webber slipped in the conditions and Vettel&#8217;s car let him down again as Alonso was left to pick up the pieces and take a lead in the drivers championship.
The two McLaren drivers have almost ruled themselves out of the hunt now with fourth and twelfth and given the pace of their car which leaves the title race to Webber, Vettel, and Alonso. With Brazil and Abu Dhabi to come (both won by Red Bull last year) Webber must being feeling confident, though in the past Ferrari have held the upper hand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ferrari rule in Monza and the title closes up &#8211; again</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/09/ferrari-rule-in-monza-and-the-title-closes-up-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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If you&#8217;re driving a Ferrari, Monza is the place you want to win, the Tifosi will celebrate you like a King &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t matter who you are, they may have cheered so loudly a few years ago when your engine expired when driving for a rival but all that is forgotten if your Ferrari takes the chequered flag first.
So Alonso gets another of the jewels for any Ferrari driver and it was all down to about 5 metres out of the pit lane, the team won the race not just Alonso, Buttons stop was about half a second slower than Alonso&#8217;s and that made all the difference. That&#8217;s not to say that the Spaniard couldn&#8217;t have overtaken Button on the track but I don&#8217;t see any reason to believe that he&#8217;d have been able to do something he hadn&#8217;t managed for the first two thirds of the race. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Webber triumphs in Hungary as Vettel loses his cool, again</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/08/webber-triumphs-in-hungary-as-vettel-loses-his-cool-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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The hungaroring isn&#8217;t the most interesting track on the calendar, it&#8217;s narrow, twisty and boring, the drivers hardly have anywhere to overtake and it only seems to produce and interesting race when something untoward happens. Sundays race was no different really, the only incidents happening under the safety car, with Rosberg&#8217;s wheel going walkabout, Kubica and Sutil colliding in the pits and Vettel getting a penalty. 
Webber avoided all the interesting goings on by staying out during the safety car and then using the Red Bull to the max to open up such a lead to Alonso that he could stop and rejoin in the lead &#8211; that&#8217;s some pace, the others have a lot to do. Vettel would have won the race had he not got a penalty under the safety car but in some ways that seems to sum up Vettel&#8217;s season so far.
The Ferrari&#8217;s capitalised on Vettel&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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