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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>
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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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 season]]></category>
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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>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>
		<comments>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/08/webber-triumphs-in-hungary-as-vettel-loses-his-cool-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=729</guid>
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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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		<title>Schumacher, Alonso and the punishment</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/05/schumacher-alonso-and-the-punishment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 00:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=705</guid>
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With Schumacher taking a penalty for overtaking under the safety car and Mercedes not appealing that means that Schumacher will go down in the record books as being beaten by Rosberg again &#8211; not something that he&#8217;s going to enjoy making a habit of. It seems that everyone other than Ferrari thought you could race to the line, even the commentators but then everyone knows which team has the ear of the stewards.
The punishment at first seems fair, a 20sec penalty, but when it&#8217;s taken in the context of a safety car finish it&#8217;s clear that it&#8217;s about as damaging as disqualification as all the cars will be finished. Some have talked about swapping the cars back as punishment but a) that&#8217;s not in the rule book, and b) that doesn&#8217;t really punish anyone. It seems that the 20s penalty was the lightest reprimand that they could hand out &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ferrari back to form along with Rosberg</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/05/ferrari-back-to-form-along-with-rosberg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 01:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Thursday practice at Monaco shows that the Red Bull isn&#8217;t always the fastest way around a race track and that Ferrari did do some work after all. Monaco is an odd track and Ferrari should be concerned even if they can waltz away with the victory here as it&#8217;s unlikely to translate elsewhere. Alonso will just be happy to see his name at the top of the times and will be hoping that he can keep it there throughout the whole weekend.
Rosberg also seems to have come back to form, or mastered the new Mercedes as he has put in times that eclipse Michael Schumacher again. Perhaps Spain was a blip, Michael Schumacher will be hoping that it turns around again on Saturday and that it is he and not Rosberg that takes the highest spot on the grid for Mercedes. With it being virtually impossible to overtake in Monaco [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Schumacher starts to build his team</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/05/michael-schumacher-starts-to-build-his-team/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 01:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Michael Schumacher put on a much better show in Barcelona than he&#8217;s managed elsewhere this season, but the important difference is that Mercedes have upgraded the car. It seems to suit Michael Schumacher much better although I wonder if Nico Rosberg will want the old spec back.
While speculation around Schumacher&#8217;s performance has been focusing on whether he&#8217;s up to it and not always the type of car that he&#8217;s driving it seems that he does need a particular setup to be at his best. Apparently the new spec has a longer wheel base and a different weight distribution. It would make the car more stable though it seems only Michael Schumacher can make it work to it&#8217;s best and I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s the way he would have liked it. It seems that he has the ear of the engineers already &#8211; what else could we see in the pipeline?
If this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Webber in Spain and what could have been</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/05/on-webber-in-spain-and-what-could-have-been/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 02:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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The 2010 Spanish GP won&#8217;t go down in history as a classic and you could be forgiven for forgetting who won it as Webber just disappeared and was untouchable out front with a flawless drive from beginning to end. All the action went on behind him. It seemed that Michael Schumacher had finally got the better on Nico Rosberg, but then Rosberg had such a poor race it could have just been a bad weekend for him. Problems at pit stops caused issues for Button and Vettel and some dodgy driving put pay to some other&#8217;s races.
Sebastien Vettel again showed that Red Bull do have a weakness even if it isn&#8217;t speed, unfortunately for the others they don&#8217;t seem to have reliability either. Hamilton will also be ruing the lost points and they may cost him later on in the season as Button continues to pick up points. Button himself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s up with Michael Schumacher, where is the driver we all like to love and hate?</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/05/whats-up-with-michael-schumacher-where-is-the-driver-we-all-like-to-love-and-hate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 00:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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This season Michael Schumacher the most successful driver to ever grace F1 returned to the sport after three years out. And he returns not to his seemingly lifelong home at Ferrari but to Mercedes who supported him in his early career. With the Mercedes team effectively being reigning world champions he must have hoped for more than has been achieved so far. The young Nico Rosberg also has the measure of Michael at Mercedes at the moment and it seems that he, Michael is the bearer of the back luck for the team something that was always reserved for a Schumacher teammate.
So why this shift in fortunes, there were not many people predicting that Schumacher would be beaten so solidly by the younger German? For the first few races we could blame rust but I think that time has come and gone, if that is still the reason then he shouldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Button calls the tyres and does it again</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/04/button-calls-the-tyres-and-does-it-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Jenson Button became the first driver in 2010 to win for a second time as he beat Lewis Hamilton home for a McLaren 1-2. Button stayed near the sharp end at the start and then stayed out on slicks when most of the other top drivers pitted for intermediates, this put him out front with Nico Rosberg, as Rosberg started to struggle Button closed up and took the lead he wouldn&#8217;t surrender for the rest of the race. As the drivers on inters started to put the times in that would catch the leaders their tyres went and they had to pit again and so those at the front enjoyed about a 50s lead.
With the race order set for a while those who had stopped started to carve their way through the middle order, Lewis Hamilton showed his skill at overtaking during this phase and by the time the second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sebastien Vettel finally gets that win as Red Bull show their form at last</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/04/sebastien-vettel-finally-gets-that-win-as-red-bull-show-their-form-at-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 13:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Sebastien Vettel took a flawless victory in the Malaysian heat which he essentially won in the first corner after he managed to squeeze Mark Webber and Nico Rosberg out. Mark Webber almost had him at one point but a sticking right front air gun and a blistering out lap from Vettel put pay to that chance.
With the McLarens and the Ferraris out of position it was only Hamilton who really made any impression on the other drivers as carved his way though the field though ultimately he only finished just ahead of Massa and Button. Alonso also deserves a mention for nursing a downshift problem through the whole race distance before his Ferrari engine expired two laps from the end, he was close to taking Button even with his problems that would have meant the car was unpredictable under breaking and unbalanced in some of the slower turn ins.
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