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		<title>Brazil approaches &#8211; and Alonso could take the title but where did it start</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/11/brazil-approaches-and-alonso-could-take-the-title-but-where-did-it-start/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 season]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fernando alonso]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=746</guid>
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For the first time in the season someone could take the title, though it seems unlikely if Alonso repeated the results of Korea then he&#8217;d be world champion for the third time. It marks an amazing turn around from mid season where the Ferrari team looked nowhere.
Looking back over the season the Ferrari has never been that slow, but they have had some terrible luck with safety cars and some bad reliability. The fact that Alonso is leading the world championship is down to Ferrari though and the fact that they have concentrated on Alonso for some time. His fortunes turned with the infamous &#8216;he is faster than you&#8217; moment and he&#8217;s never really looked back since.
Now that Alonso has won the most GP and is at the top he looks every bit the world champion and Red Bull are going to find it hard to beat him, even with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outside the main five do any of the other drivers have a chance of the title in 2010?</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/03/outside-the-main-five-do-any-of-the-other-drivers-have-a-chance-of-the-title-in-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 season]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[driver battle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[felipe massa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ferrari]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jenson button]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lewis hamilton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mark webber]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mercedes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michael schumacher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nico rosberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[predictions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red bull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sebastien vettel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[title hopes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=503</guid>
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With Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Michael Schumacher, Fernando Alonso and Sebastien Vettel filling the top five on almost everyone&#8217;s odds what chances to the others have? Here we&#8217;re talking about Nico Rosberg, Felipe Massa and Mark Webber mainly as I don&#8217;t think that any of the other teams could pull the championship off.
Nico Rosberg doesn&#8217;t have much hope of securing the championship even if the Mercedes ends up being the dominant car because of his team mate, Michael Schumacher will not let Rosberg beat him &#8211; whatever the team say. To be in a position to take the title he&#8217;d have to be head and shoulders above Schumacher and the only way I can see that happening is if Mercedes win almost everything with honours even between the two drivers and Schumacher has a couple of DNFs in the last few races. With the apparent strength of Ferrari, McLaren and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Michael Schumacher return to take the title?</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/03/will-michael-schumacher-return-to-take-the-title/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 season]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drivers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[2005]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2006]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[car performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fernando alonso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first GP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jenson button]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lewis hamilton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mclaren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mercedes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michael schumacher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sandbagging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sebastien vettel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world championship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world title]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=429</guid>
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Michael Schumacher returns to F1 this season and he wouldn&#8217;t do so unless he believed that he had a shot at the title. Mercedes seem to have a car that has shown some good pace in testing if not outstanding though Jenson Button thinks that they may be sandbagging somewhat ahead of the first GP.
So what are his chances this year? Well firstly he&#8217;s got to beat Nico Rosberg, on paper it shouldn&#8217;t be that hard but Rosberg has shown that he can be quick at Williams so expect him to push Schumacher. I suspect that he&#8217;ll be a bit hit and miss through the season which is something Rosberg needs to work on and he&#8217;s got the best mentor in the business right next to him.
Outside of his own team the main contenders seem to be Fernando Alonso, Sebastien Vettel, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button. Now that&#8217;s a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Alonso make his 2010 dream a reality?</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/03/can-alonso-make-his-2010-dream-a-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 season]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dnf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[felipe massa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fernando alonso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ferrari]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jenson button]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lewis hamilton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mclaren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michael schumacher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renault]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world championship]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=407</guid>
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Fernando Alonso has managed to keep a reputation for being one of if not the best all round driver on the F1 grid over that last few years even though he hasn&#8217;t managed to bring home much recently. His year at McLaren has all but been forgotten and he is seen as the person who&#8217;s been making Renault look ok for the last couple of years &#8211; he is now at Ferrari and he expects that to change.
With the return of Michael Schumacher and both Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button at McLaren he still remains the favourite to take the title this season and I think there is good reason for this. As much as I like Massa I can&#8217;t see him beating Alonso this year, and at Ferrari that means Alonso is going to be number one.  He&#8217;s also going to have a good car, the 2009 Ferrari wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Jenson Button retain the title this year?</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/03/can-jenson-button-retain-the-title-this-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/03/can-jenson-button-retain-the-title-this-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009 season]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 season]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[season]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speculation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1998]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2007]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fernando alonso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ferrari]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jaques villeneuve]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[title]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[williams]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=379</guid>
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Arguably Jenson Button has the least chance of retaining his world title since Jacques Villeneuve pulled on his Williams helmet in 1998. With Ferrari signing Alonso and Mercedes bringing back Michael Schumacher plus the fact that Lewis Hamilton is now Jenson Button&#8217;s team mate there will be much more competition this year for the top set of points, and I haven&#8217;t even mentioned the Red Bull team.
Jenson Button will first and foremost have to beat his team mate to win the title and that is going to be a tough ask, he&#8217;ll have to do better than Fernando Alonso did in 2007, Hamilton has improved since then too. Button moves to McLaren as the World Champion as Alonso did in in 2007 but he&#8217;s also British and Hamilton did alienate a portion of the McLaren team last year after his antics in Australia so Button&#8217;s in a stronger position. What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Bull launch their 2010 crusader</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/02/red-bull-launch-their-2010-crusader/</link>
		<comments>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/02/red-bull-launch-their-2010-crusader/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 season]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[launches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adrian newey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[double diffuser]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[first GP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[livery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mark webber]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.breathef1.com/?p=188</guid>
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Last years Red Bull very nearly won the world championship, if they had started the year with a double diffuser and Sebastien Vettel hadn&#8217;t been quite so hot headed then they would have won the championship, it&#8217;s that simple.
Therefore this years can is going to have to go one better to satisfy everyone and that can only be at the expense of teams such as Ferrari and McLaren which doesn&#8217;t happen that often, I think last year may have been their best hope.
That said they have Adrian Newey who has designed some amazing cars and this looks like one of them. The Red Bull livery makes it hard to discern the detail but there&#8217;s no reason to believe that they won&#8217;t have built a fast car &#8211; unless they spent all their efforts on last years car and this one has been built in the last four months. It&#8217;s possible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Round up of 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/01/round-up-of-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.breathef1.com/2010/01/round-up-of-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2009]]></category>
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So last year was eventful in F1, from scandal off track to fairytale on track. Brawn GP went from nearly closing to winning the World Championship in their first year, with some amazing victories along the way to prove that anything is indeed possible in F1.
What happened
Jenson Button took the world title, Brawn clinched the constructors title (I wonder if Honda still think they made the best call&#8230;), Ferrari lost all their form and we found out that they&#8217;re really hard to drive, McLaren made some big mistakes and Lewis Hamilton learnt some humility, we found out that Michael Schumacher might not be gone for good, that Japanese drivers do make for exciting racing and that Fernando Alonso can climb above any scandal.
Jenson Button started the season with a clean sweep which ultimately was the reason that he clinched the title, Rubens Barrichello followed Jenson home to start the season [...]]]></description>
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