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		<title>Bernard&#8217;s medals</title>
		<link>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2009/10/07/bernards-medals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hibbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interestingly, if Bernie Ecclestone’s plan of awarding gold medals to race winners had been in place this season, Jenson Button would have wrapped the Championship up after the Singapore GP the other week.
Bernie wanted to reward first places with gold medals, seconds with silvers, and so on &#8211; like at the Olympics &#8211; to work [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com&blog=3888036&post=2366&subd=bbctopgear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Renault: got off lightly?</title>
		<link>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2009/09/21/renault-got-off-lightly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hibbard</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flavio Briatore]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FIA has today given Renault a two-year suspended ban from Formula 1 for their part in the Crashgate scandal.

Former team boss Flavio Briatore has been banned for life from any FIA-sanctioned event, and any driver associated with the Italian will not have their Superlicence renewed should Briatore still be their manager come the beginning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com&blog=3888036&post=2298&subd=bbctopgear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Renault bosses walk</title>
		<link>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2009/09/16/renault-bosses-walk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hibbard</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[F1 2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fernando alonso]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if the Renault &#8216;Crashgate’ saga couldn’t get any more scandalous/intriguing/bonkers, things have taken a huge turn today as the team boss and engineering bloke have ‘parted ways’ with the French outfit.
Head honcho Flavio Briatore and chief engineer Pat Symonds have both left the squad, and Renault say they won’t dispute the allegations when they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com&blog=3888036&post=2288&subd=bbctopgear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>99</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>More Brawn for Merc?</title>
		<link>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2009/09/08/more-brawn-for-merc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hibbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mercedes-Benz is set to buy a chunk of championship leaders Brawn GP, according to F1&#8217;s rumour mill. The German manufacturer already has a long-standing stake in McLaren, and supplies engines to Force India, but it’s apparently keen to tie up something more substantial with the Brackley-based team.
The move isn’t thought to affect Mercedes’ McLaren deal, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com&blog=3888036&post=2197&subd=bbctopgear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Renault race fix?</title>
		<link>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2009/09/01/renault-race-fix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hibbard</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bernie ecclestone]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The strangest story to come out of F1 after the Belgian GP is that the FIA is investigating Renault for an alleged race-fix, involving Nelson Piquet Jnr at last year&#8217;s Singapore night race.
The claims from an unnamed source have suggested that Piquet may have deliberately been asked to crash in Singapore to help teammate Fernando [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com&blog=3888036&post=2181&subd=bbctopgear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FOTA update</title>
		<link>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2009/06/26/fota-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hibbard</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bernie ecclestone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Campos]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[More details are emerging about next year’s F1 rules and plans, following the Formula One Teams’ Association and the FIA’s love-in earlier this week.
Though F1 seems likely to be run next year on the current technical regulations, expect at least a couple of changes: KERS will be dropped, and there will be no refuelling.
These both [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com&blog=3888036&post=1870&subd=bbctopgear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No breakaway series</title>
		<link>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2009/06/24/no-breakaway-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hibbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a week of unexpected turnarounds it appears that Max Mosley and the Formula One Teams’ Association have now hugged it out: there will be no breakaway series.
But there will be no Mosley.
The FIA president stepped out of today’s World Motor Sport Council meeting in Paris and held an impromptu press conference with the world’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com&blog=3888036&post=1863&subd=bbctopgear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Well, are you?</title>
		<link>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2009/06/23/well-are-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hibbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ferrari have just sent out a mailshot asking their website users to vote on whether the Formula One Teams Association has made the right decision to organise a new championship next year, as an alternate to F1.

The reason for the mail and it’s timing are obvious: the World Motor Sport Council convenes tomorrow at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com&blog=3888036&post=1857&subd=bbctopgear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Brit GP: the aftermath</title>
		<link>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2009/06/22/brit-gp-the-aftermath/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hibbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn’t the most exciting of races, and it certainly wasn’t the result that the majority of Brit fans were hoping for, but a big love-in occurred over the weekend with the Silverstone circuit.

And the most unlikely man who hugged it out with the circuit owners and the British Racing Drivers Club was Mr Bernard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com&blog=3888036&post=1848&subd=bbctopgear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not me, it&#8217;s you</title>
		<link>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2009/06/19/its-not-me-its-you/</link>
		<comments>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2009/06/19/its-not-me-its-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hibbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overshadowing today&#8217;s practice sessions, the world of Formula 1 has gone crazy this morning, with the announcement by the Formula One Teams’ Association (FOTA) that its teams are going to leave F1 and set up their own series.
The eight member teams – Ferrari, McLaren, Brawn, BMW, Toyota, Renault, Red Bull and Scuderia Toro Rosso -  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com&blog=3888036&post=1819&subd=bbctopgear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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