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		<title>Massa: Ferrari has no advantage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Felipe Massa is happy with Ferrari&#8217;s preparation for the 2010 Formula  1 season, but does not believe it heads for Bahrain with any advantage  over its rivals.
The 28-year-old Brazilian, who spent much of the final Barcelona test  day running with a heavy fuel load, finished third quickest today.
Ferrari has been strong at all the pre-season tests &#8211; topping all  three days at Valencia at the start of the month and regularly setting a  strong pace on long runs. But Massa pointed to the narrow margins ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infomotosport.com/2010/03/01/massa-ferrari-advantage/</link>
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		<title>Stefan GP confident of F1 place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Stefan Grand Prix team is still hopeful the FIA will allow the  Serbian squad to race in Formula 1 this year.
In a press release issued on Sunday, the team said it wanted to  reconfirm its ability to race in the 2010 season, despite not yet having  an entry.
Stefan GP is expected to unveil its first F1 car to the press this  week and, as revealed by infomotosport, former world champion Jacques  Villeneuve will have a seat fitting at its Cologne factory tomorrow.
The Serbian team ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infomotosport.com/2010/02/28/stefan-gp-confident-f1-place/</link>
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		<title>Brawn: Mercedes is close to the pace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ross Brawn believes the new Mercedes will be competitive at the start  of the Formula 1 season, but has admitted that the team does not enjoy  the advantage it held at the start of 2009, as Brawn GP.
Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher hinted yesterday that  the W01 was more competitive than he initially thought. Team boss Brawn  agrees the car is good, but believes it is currently not the best.
Talking after most of the top teams had recorded laps within a few  tenths of each ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infomotosport.com/2010/02/28/brawn-mercedes-close-pace/</link>
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		<title>Hamilton shows pace on final morning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lewis Hamilton delivered the perfect evidence of the step forward  McLaren has made at Barcelona as he set the quickest time of the week on  an exciting final morning of pre-season testing on Sunday.
With the leading teams all spending their morning running through  some low-fuel qualifying simulations, it offered a proper glimpse of the  current competitive order &#8211; and it was Hamilton who eventually emerged  on top shortly before the lunch break.
Getting his first experience of the raft of updates that McLaren had  brought ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infomotosport.com/2010/02/28/hamilton-shows-pace-final-morning/</link>
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		<title>Barrichello tips Williams to surprise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rubens Barrichello is optimistic that his Williams team will prove to  be one of the surprises of the year after encouraging times in recent  tests.
Williams has spent much of the winter doing long runs and proving its  reliability, but Nico Hulkenberg was quickest on Friday at Barcelona &#8211;  and Barrichello thinks that performance has changed perceptions of their  team.
&#8220;I think Nico&#8217;s time on Friday was the very first time we tried low  fuel in the car, and we surprised a few people, so all ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infomotosport.com/2010/02/28/barrichello-tips-williams-surprise/</link>
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		<title>Button delighted with final preparations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jenson Button is confident of McLaren&#8217;s potential to fight for  victory in Bahrain having declared himself happy with the MP4-25&#8217;s aero  update on his final day of testing prior to the season opener.
Though the world champion ended the third day of the Barcelona test  third fastest, 0.7s away from Nico Rosberg&#8217;s ultimate pace, he was  delighted by his McLaren&#8217;s long-run pace in a full race simulation  despite tricky weather conditions.
&#8220;Our race run was great,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t get any red flags until  the ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infomotosport.com/2010/02/28/button-delighted-final-preparations/</link>
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		<title>Villeneuve set for Stefan seat fitting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jacques Villeneuve is set to have a seat fitting in Stefan GP&#8217;s car  in Cologne on Monday, infomotosport has learned.
Team boss Zoran Stefanovic has said that the 1997 world champion is  close to a deal with the Serbian squad, which continues to push for a  place in the 2010 Formula 1 field.
Stefan has already announced Kazuki Nakajima as its first driver, and  is also believed to be poised to sign GP2 race winner Pastor Maldonado  as its reserve.
The team&#8217;s second car is scheduled for completion ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infomotosport.com/2010/02/28/villeneuve-set-stefan-seat-fitting/</link>
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		<title>Trulli: Lotus can&#8217;t fight existing teams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jarno Trulli is not expecting Lotus to be able to fight with any of  the established Formula 1 teams in the first four races of the season.
The Italian had his final day of pre-season testing in the T127 at  Barcelona today, where his best time was 4.3 seconds down on the pace  set by Nico Rosberg.
While he was pleased to log over 100 laps after experiencing some  reliability problems on Friday, the 35-year-old admitted that he expects  to be at the back of the grid ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infomotosport.com/2010/02/28/trulli-lotus-fight-existing-teams/</link>
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		<title>Set-up Mercedes&#8217; only issue &#8211; Rosberg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nico Rosberg reckons Mercedes now just has to fine-tune its set-up  and it will be ready to make a competitive start to the 2010 season.
The German was fastest in today&#8217;s Barcelona test, and ended the day  extremely upbeat about his car.
&#8220;I think in general there&#8217;s no absolute weakness with the car at the  moment,&#8221; said Rosberg.
&#8220;We just need to nail the set-up a little bit better to really  extract the maximum potential from the car, which I think we&#8217;re not  quite doing yet. We&#8217;re close ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infomotosport.com/2010/02/28/set-up-mercedes-issue-rosberg/</link>
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		<title>Rosberg heads penultimate test day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nico Rosberg finished the third day of testing at Barcelona with the  fastest time for Mercedes GP.
The German&#8217;s best lap of 1m20.686s from the morning, set before rain  disrupted the action for a couple of hours, was enough to keep him at  the top of the timesheets ahead of Sebastien Buemi&#8217;s Toro Rosso.
Both drivers switched from short runs to long runs in the afternoon,  and both suffered technical problems that forced them to stop on track.  Rosberg stopped in the closing stages of a race ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infomotosport.com/2010/02/28/rosberg-heads-penultimate-test-day/</link>
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		<title>Schumacher happy with reduced testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The significant reductions Formula 1 teams have self-imposed on  testing have made little difference to the development of the cars, and  were a principal factor in convincing Michael Schumacher to return to  the sport, according to the seven-time world champion.
The teams introduced a ban on in-season testing at the beginning of  last year and agreed to a combined four-test pre-season schedule in 2010  in order to further reduce costs.
Schumacher, returning to the sport as a race driver with Mercedes,  after a three-year break, said ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infomotosport.com/2010/02/28/schumacher-happy-reduced-testing/</link>
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		<title>Schumacher revises Mercedes prediction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Schumacher has changed his stance on Mercedes GP&#8217;s  competitiveness heading into the beginning of the 2010 season.
Schumacher said on Friday that he did not expect the team to be in a  position to win races early in the year, but changed his mind on  Saturday after analysing the data in more detail.
Speaking on Saturday afternoon, Schumacher said: &#8220;Yesterday I was a  little bit pessimistic before I studied the data. I mentioned it after  not having studied the data, afterwards it looks much more reasonable ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infomotosport.com/2010/02/28/schumacher-revises-mercedes-prediction/</link>
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		<title>Rosberg fastest as rain hits test</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nico Rosberg topped the timesheets on Saturday morning as rain  disrupted the penultimate day of this week&#8217;s Formula 1 test at Barcelona  in Spain.
Although the day started off dry, and Rosberg was able to complete a  series of low fuel short runs to set a best time of 1m20.686s on his  final effort, everyone&#8217;s programme at Barcelona was hit as rain soaked  the track shortly before 11am.
Rosberg&#8217;s short runs offered the first glimpse of the ultimate pace  of his Mercedes GP car, with the ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infomotosport.com/2010/02/28/rosberg-fastest-rain-hits-test/</link>
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		<title>Lopez manager admits Campos talks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jose Maria Lopez&#8217;s manager Felipe McGough says talks are underway  between Campos owner Jose Ramon Carabante and US F1 investor Chad Hurley  to secure a deal that will ensure Lopez can race in Formula 1 this  year.
With  uncertainty surrounding US F1&#8217;s plans, the American team&#8217;s  already-signed driver Lopez has been linked to a switch to Campos.  McGough confirmed that Carabante, who took sole control of Campos last  week, and entrepreneur Hurley were trying to find a solution for Lopez.
&#8220;The two groups that talked ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infomotosport.com/2010/02/24/lopez-manager-admits-campos-talks/</link>
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