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All eyes were on former Ferrari star Schumacher, who qualified in seventh place, but it was the 41-year-old German's younger compatriot Vettel who seemed set to place an early benchmark for 2010.
Such developments reflect, too, a generational change in Brazil's highly professional foreign service: older diplomats, who worked during the cold war and Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship, are giving way to younger ones, who feel that the world's ninth-largest economy should be less shy of flexing its democratic muscles.