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		<title>Max&#8217;s tier drop?</title>
		<link>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2009/05/18/maxs-tier-drop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 16:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Philip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FIA will ditch the idea of a two-tier F1 championship, but aren’t prepared to budge much on the £40m budget. That’s what seems to have come out of Max ‘n’ Bernie’s Big Budget Cap Meeting.
The F1 supremos met the leading teams – including Ferari, Toyota, Red Bull and Renault, who have all threatened to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com&blog=3888036&post=1569&subd=bbctopgear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bunking Brigade</title>
		<link>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2009/05/14/bunking-brigade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 10:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hibbard</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[budget cap]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How important is it that Ferrari stay in Formula 1? You’ll have seen in the papers that the Scuderia are talking a lot about leaving if the FIA’s proposed rules don’t change for 2010.

To keep pushing the point (‘No really, we’re leaving! We keep talking about it so it must be true&#8230;’) Ferrari president Luca [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com&blog=3888036&post=1551&subd=bbctopgear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>170</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Three teams for 2010?</title>
		<link>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2009/05/11/three-teams-for-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 17:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hibbard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sunday Afternoon Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bernie ecclestone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget cap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dietrich mateschitz]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Lie-gate and Diffuser-gate comes We’re-not-racing-in-a-two-tier-F1-gate, as a number of teams have started ganging up on the FIA with big dirty threats of quitting the show next season.

It began with Ferrari’s warning (which locked them into that tussle with Max Mosley) and now Toyota and both the Red Bull teams are making noises about doing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com&blog=3888036&post=1538&subd=bbctopgear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>157</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Spanish class</title>
		<link>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2009/05/10/spanish-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 13:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hibbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jenson Button stormed ahead to the win in Spain, leaving teammate Rubens Barrichello wondering how he threw it all away. Still, Brawn will be happy.

It looked to be all Rubens from the beginning as he got a great start, jumping Jenson down into the first corner who had no answer and couldn’t defend. Rubens then [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com&blog=3888036&post=1520&subd=bbctopgear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>92</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Catch-up time</title>
		<link>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2009/05/05/catch-up-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 16:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hibbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jenson Button is gearing up for a tough time retaining his World Championship lead at this weekend’s Spanish GP.

With a two-week break since Bahrain, every team is preparing performance upgrades for their cars at Barcelona, which should put the pack yapping at Button’s heels.
Ross Brawn has admitted that his team has updated their cars, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com&blog=3888036&post=1495&subd=bbctopgear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>46</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Only £40m? Come on, boss…</title>
		<link>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2009/04/30/only-40m-come-on-boss%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2009/04/30/only-40m-come-on-boss%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Philip</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[felipe massa]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/?p=1488</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the biggest shake-up in F1 since, er, ever. The FIA has just announced a £40 million team budget cap within Formula 1 for next season.
That&#8217;s not much by F1 standards, but it could have been even lower: the figure was originally expected to be £30 million, but FIA president Max Mosley agreed to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com&blog=3888036&post=1488&subd=bbctopgear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>118</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>McLaren&#8217;s slapped wrist</title>
		<link>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2009/04/29/mclaren-slapped-wrist/</link>
		<comments>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2009/04/29/mclaren-slapped-wrist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Philip</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/?p=1483</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[McLaren are off the hook. Well, sort of. The FIA has given the British team a suspended three-race ban for misleading stewards at the Australian Grand Prix.

The sentence means that McLaren won’t face a ban or a fine for their behaviour during the ‘Liegate’ affair, in which McLaren were accused of manipulating the evidence to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com&blog=3888036&post=1483&subd=bbctopgear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>92</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Brit GP threat</title>
		<link>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2009/04/24/brit-gp-threat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hibbard</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bernie ecclestone]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Donington Park]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British Grand Prix is once again under threat, as the owners of the Donington circuit begin legal action against the company that has the lease on the venue for the next 150 years.

The owners, Wheatcroft &#38; Son Limited, are seeking £2.47 million in rent from the leasers, Donington Ventures Leisure Ltd.
Bernie Ecclestone is close [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com&blog=3888036&post=1425&subd=bbctopgear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>51</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Aston Martin F1?</title>
		<link>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2009/04/23/aston-martin-f1/</link>
		<comments>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2009/04/23/aston-martin-f1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hibbard</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aston Martin F1]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Richards]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prodrive]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aston Martin Chairman David Richards has revealed that his Prodrive company is looking to enter Formula One, with a view to taking up one of three available spots open to new teams next year.

This is cool news for many reasons, the first of which is that we could have as many as 26 cars on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com&blog=3888036&post=1417&subd=bbctopgear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>261</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>New quali?</title>
		<link>http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/2008/11/21/new-quali/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hibbard</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2009 season]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an interesting piece over at autosport.com, that says the Formula One Teams&#8217; Association will be looking at the possibility of a new qualifying format for next season, which would change the whole format of F1 Saturdays as they currently are.

Anyway, what they&#8217;ll be discussing is an idea that would see all of the cars [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com&blog=3888036&post=981&subd=bbctopgear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>232</slash:comments>
	
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