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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>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2011/05/so-barcelona-was-a-good-race/</link>
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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>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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=825</guid>
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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>Full year report: Sauber</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2011/02/full-year-report-sauber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Sauber have had a good year given where they started from, the car wasn&#8217;t as fast as it could have been but Kobayashi makes sure that they always have a chance of points, had they not had the unreliability that they had at the start of the year they might have done more with it but still a solid year.
Kamui Kobayashi has displayed the excitement that we&#8217;ve come to expect from Japanese drivers and has scored points in races he had no business doing so. He could have benefited from some more help from the team in some races but he&#8217;s also shown he doesn&#8217;t need it. If he can curb the overly ambitious side of his driving he could be a force to be reckoned with.
Pedro de la Rosa didn&#8217;t last the whole year, I don&#8217;t think it did that badly overall he had some terrible bad luck early [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 05:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=743</guid>
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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>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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		<title>New Silverstone a hit as Mark Webber storms back to winning ways</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/07/new-silverstone-a-hit-as-mark-webber-storms-back-to-winning-ways/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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Silverstone is always a special race and with a new layout for 2010 is was always going to be a good race. Qualifying showed that the Red Bulls were the cars to beat as they locked out the front row despite all the controversy around the front wing that was put on Vettels car. The McLarens were slower comparatively than they have been recently but the Ferrari seemed quicker with Alonso taking third spot on the grid.
The race itself was good, Webber took the lead at the start and Hamilton touched Vettels tyre (or should that be Vettel touched Hamilton&#8217;s front wing?) the result was a puncture for Vettel and the end of his chances. Webber then dominated the race, not really giving anyone else a look in. Hamilton stayed in second being the fastest of the rest while Alonso who should have been challenging Hamilton for that position added [...]]]></description>
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