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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>
				<category><![CDATA[2011 season]]></category>
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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 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: Renault</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2011/02/full-year-report-renault/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Renault have flattered to deceive all year, in practice they are fast, Robert  sometimes even gets them near the front in qualifying but the never seem to be able to convert in into race pace. Vitaly Petrov hasn&#8217;t exactly excelled in the other car and they don&#8217;t seem to have had the development regime of the other teams.
Robert Kubica has been the star of the Renault show and if there were places at one of the top teams he would be heading there, but as there isn&#8217;t he&#8217;ll be at Renault next year plugging away trying to ensure that he stays on peoples radar, he might even get a podium.
Vitaly Petrov hasn&#8217;t impressed all year, he has had accident after incident and hasn&#8217;t been consistent in any way. If he hadn&#8217;t paid for his drive I doubt he&#8217;d still be racing, Flavio would have had him out races ago.
Renault need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ferrari take the title by the horns as Red Bull implode</title>
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		<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>McLaren falter and Red Bull charge onwards in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 06:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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With the five title contenders only 25pts or a race win apart the championship looked incredibly close going into the race. Vettel&#8217;s victory and the failure of either McLaren driver to even look like they could get on the podium unless one of the other guys has a problem means that the championship looks less open going to Korea.
If Red Bull don&#8217;t have an issue at the next race, and I probably mean a double DNF here then the McLaren guys are out of the title race now, Alonso is still in there but it&#8217;s looking more and more like Red Bull have this year in the bag.
Kobayashi had a fantastic race for Sauber and was the only man to really drive past people, if the tactical guys at Sauber had got their act together then he may well have finished further up the field than he did. If more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alonso shines under the lights of Singapore</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/09/alonso-shines-under-the-lights-of-singapore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Love him or hate him Fernando Alonso is a great F1 driver, he soaked up tremendous amounts of pressure to secure a back-to-back victory for himself and Ferrari. He needed those points to give himself a hope in the title and now he&#8217;s only 9 points behind Mark Webber, that would be under two in last years system. Button is now 25pts off the pace but that&#8217;s still only a single race victory. With four races to go a DNF would probably be the end of the title chances unless everyone else suffers similarly. With races in Japan, Korea, Brazil and Abu Dhabi on the calendar and with some doubt surrounding the Korean GP there is simply no margin for error. 
The race itself took part under floodlight which is the norm for Singapore, which into it&#8217;s third year didn&#8217;t seem to prove an issue to the drivers as they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ferrari rule in Monza and the title closes up &#8211; again</title>
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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>
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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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		<title>Amazing Canadian race sees Red Bull knocked off their perch by McLaren</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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The Canadian GP normally serves up a good race but this year was a special one with non stop action from the first corner until the end. It was the first time that the tyre rules really worked as they were planned to, coupled with the endless capacity that the Gilles Villeneuve track has for incidents and F1 sprang to life.
It was the first race of the year that has started without a Red Bull on pole and with the leading cars split on tyre choice the start looked exciting. It played out that way too with passing in the first few laps. Then by the time that the race had just begun to stabilise the soft tyres started to go off &#8211; this was only a few laps into the race. Hamilton and the others on the softer compound pitting to change and the Red Bulls (on the harder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Bull look unstoppable in the streets of Monaco</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 01:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Red Bull provided the text book display of how to go about winning an F1 race, the only thing that they didn&#8217;t manage to get right was both cars on the front of the grid. Mark Webber was in a class of his own for the entire race and it seemed that he had plenty of extra pace in the bag if the others started to push him. It seems that the championship this year may very well be between the two Red Bull drivers as their car looks unbeatable.
Fernando Alonso put on a rather impressive display of driving to go from the back of the grid to take 6th place and ensure limit the damage caused by his off in free practice on Saturday although I wonder what he could have done had he started from the front, yes he was helped by the safety cars but then he [...]]]></description>
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