Despite suffering from a bout of tonsillitis in the days leading up to the event, McLaren’s Jenson Button put in an impressive performance at Sunday’s London Triathlon. Button is understood to have fi
With a three-week break between races, you’d expect most drivers to hang up their race suits and take some well-earned rest and relaxation ahead of the season’s final push. McLaren’s Jenson Button has
Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button in their McLaren MP4-25s turned the world championship fight on its head in Montreal on Sunday afternoon, when they scored the team’s third one-two of the season after
Mark Webber will drop five places on the grid for this afternoon’s Canadian Grand Prix due to a gearbox change on his Red Bull car. Webber, who had qualified second alongside polesitter Lewis Hamilton
One of the great things about the Canadian Grand Prix is that it always attracts plenty of famous racing faces.
Double world championship, double CART champion and double Indy 500 winner Emerson Fi
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton left it until the dying moments of qualifying in Canada, but his lap of 1m 15.105s was sufficient to push Red Bull off the pole for the first time in 2010. And as it left Mark
Things settled down a little in Montreal on Saturday morning as teams found better ways to generate grip in the continuing cold conditions on the Ile Notre Dame. And McLaren got back on top courtesy o
As the paddock returns to Montreal for this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix, two Formula One stars - and one former driver now busy rallying - will be trying to shake off a memory from when they were la
Former Williams, McLaren and Red Bull driver David Coulthard has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. The Scot, who retired from F1 competition at the end of 2008, remains the mos
Sebastian Vettel set the fastest time in Friday afternoon’s second practice session for the Canadian Grand Prix. The Red Bull driver lapped in 1m 16.877s, and only Fernando Alonso with 1m 16.963s for
There was plenty of action as Formula One cars once again hammered round the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on Friday morning, as Jenson Button set the pace for McLaren in opening practice for the Canadian
Montreal hosted ‘Le Grand Soir’ or ‘Grand Evening’ on Thursday to welcome Formula One racing back to the Canadian city after a one-year absence. The spectacular event, staged in the old Windsor train
There isn’t a team in the paddock that isn’t welcoming the return to North America, and everyone is excited about the prospect of racing once again on the 4.361-kilometre (2.709-mile) Circuit Gilles V
With just one win and a 26-point deficit to championship leaders Red Bull in the 2010 standings, Ferrari have not enjoyed the best of starts to the season. However, driver Fernando Alonso remains conf
Red Bull have endured a rough ride in the ten days since May’s Turkish Grand Prix. As well as the furore that surrounded the crash between team mates Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber at Istanbul Park,
With the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve's challenging layout and Montreal's welcoming atmosphere, the Canadian Grand Prix is a firm favourite with many of the Formula One drivers and their teams. Here they
With the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve's challenging layout and Montreal's welcoming atmosphere, the Canadian Grand Prix is a firm favourite with many of the Formula One drivers and their teams. Here they
Following a meeting at their Milton Keynes factory on Thursday, Red Bull believe they have drawn a line under the collision between drivers Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber during the Turkish Grand Pr
McLaren marked the 40th anniversary of the death of team founder Bruce McLaren on Wednesday at their Woking headquarters. McLaren, who won four Grands Prix, died on June 2, 1970 while testing a McLare
Just days after clinching second place at the Turkish Grand Prix, McLaren’s Jenson Button took time to reflect on his title-winning success of 2009 on Wednesday, as he was awarded an MBE by Her Majest
You could have cut the atmosphere at Red Bull with a knife following the collision between the team’s drivers, Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel, during Sunday’s Turkish Grand Prix. But Webber, who los
The collision between Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel was the talking point of Sunday's Turkish Grand Prix, but the real story was the fact that Red Bull's opposition - notably McLaren - has closed t
When McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton broke his duck in 2010 he did so in dramatic style, in a Turkish Grand Prix that at one stage seemed destined to yield Red Bull yet another one-two.
Red Bull’s Mark We
Mark Webber continued his recent excellent form to snatch another pole position for Red Bull on the final runs in Q3 in Turkey on Saturday afternoon, cutting beneath Lewis Hamilton’s benchmark first-r
Things really hotted up in Istanbul Park in Saturday morning practice, even though the track and ambient temperatures were cooler than yesterday.
A flurry of late activity saw many of the leading r
Jenson Button turned the tables on McLaren team mate Lewis Hamilton on Friday afternoon when, despite a bobble in Turn Eight on his best lap, he set the fastest time with 1m 28.280s. This time, howeve
Lewis Hamilton drew first blood in the opening practice session for the Turkish Grand Prix on Friday, when he lapped a second faster than McLaren team mate Jenson Button. The 2008 champion circulated
Red Bull may be riding high in both championships, having scored every pole position plus three victories from the opening six rounds of 2010, but McLaren’s Jonathan Neale is certain their advantage w
Monaco is always a hotbed on the social side and 2010 was no exception after luminaries such as Sir Jackie and Lady Helen Stewart, and Nigel and Rosanne Mansell (supporting son Greg who was racing in
Red Bull’s Mark Webber deprived Renault’s Robert Kubica of pole position in Monaco on Saturday afternoon to continue his strong run of form. The Australian squeaked ahead of the Pole’s 1m 14.120s best
Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso continued to set the pace in Monaco on Thursday afternoon, in a second practice session that confirmed everyone’s fears that the key to qualifying will be to find a clear lap
The majority of drivers are resigned to the fact that getting a clear lap round Monaco, especially during the first qualifying session on Saturday, is going to be like trying to thread a needle at 150
With four different winners in the first five Grands Prix of 2010, and none of them him, McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton comes to Monaco determined to get a victory under his belt to push back into the world
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton could almost taste the champagne of a second consecutive podium position at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya on Sunday when two laps from home his left front tyre deflated and
Mark Webber drove the race of his life in Barcelona on Sunday afternoon, leaving Red Bull team mate Sebastian Vettel behind on the way to the third Grand Prix victory of his career. The Australian won
Red Bull put on yet another stunning display of raw speed at Barcelona during qualifying on Saturday afternoon, as Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel dominated all three sessions to fight for pole posit
Red Bull retained their grip on the Spanish Grand Prix weekend in Saturday morning's final practice session in Barcelona, with Sebastian Vettel beating team mate Mark Webber by well over half a second
Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber dished out a stern warning to their rivals at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya on Friday afternoon when, on a bone dry, track they dominated the second sess
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button said they hoped for dry conditions here, and they got them in the first session of practice for this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix. The 2008 world champion la
While the weather forecasts suggest that there will be rain at some stage during the Spanish Grand Prix in Catalunya - and similar conditions have helped to make the recent Australian, Malaysian and C
It’s hard to believe that so soon into the 2010 season, the Formula One teams are already looking ahead to next year and beyond, but in a sport so fast-moving it never pays to be caught off guard.
The FIA has given consent to Ferrari to make modifications to their engine ahead of this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, in order to improve the V8’s reliability following issues during the opening four
As the rest of Italy celebrated May Day on Saturday, Ferrari were busy carrying out straight-line aero testing at Vairano. The team debuted their version of McLaren’s ‘F-duct’ system, whereby the driv
Michael Schumacher has warned fans that he is unlikely to be fighting for victory in next weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, despite the much-talked-about improvements to his Mercedes GP car.
Schumacher
Following the resignation of Sir Richard Lapthorne from his role as Non-Executive Chairmanship of McLaren Group and McLaren Automotive consultant, McLaren have announced they are to restructure their
His cut-and-thrust charges through the field have provided Formula One fans with great entertainment this season, but Lewis Hamilton has conceded that McLaren team mate Jenson Button’s more measured a
The Chinese Grand Prix went against the expectations of most, as McLaren turned the tables on Red Bull just when they needed to.
We'll never know whether Button and Hamilton would have threatened the
Force India's Vitantonio Liuzzi on his first lap spin, collision, and retirement; Mclaren's Lewis Hamilton and Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel, and Ferrari's Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso on their pit-
Jenson Button won a nail-biting Chinese Grand Prix for McLaren on Sunday afternoon, with team mate Lewis Hamilton chasing him home second after a race of many parts.
It began with light rain, a jum
The Formula One teams are now starting to ponder just when they are going to be able to get home from China, thanks to the dust cloud over Europe from the Icelandic volcano, but that doesn’t mean they
McLaren once again headed Friday afternoon’s second practice session for the Chinese Grand Prix, but this time it was Lewis Hamilton who set the pace with 1m 35.217s. The times were close, however, wi
Friday morning's first practice session for the Chinese Grand Prix was brought to a spectacular halt with just over six minutes remaining when Sebastien Buemi's Toro Rosso suffered a remarkable double
At one time it seemed that the Chinese Grand Prix might be the battle of the ride-height adjusters, with McLaren developing a system along lines they believe Red Bull to have been using since the star
Nobody has yet won the Chinese Grand Prix twice. Since its inauguration in 2004 the race at the Shanghai International Circuit has enjoyed the unusual distinction of having had a different winner each
Ride-height control systems have dominated Formula One racing's technical chatter in recent weeks.
But following the FIA's reiteration of the rules, McLaren's engineering director Paddy Lowe isn't c
Mercedes GP's Michael Schumacher and McLaren's Lewis Hamilton join two of their rivals to answer questions on Thursday, while Renault's Eric Boullier is one of four senior team personnel to face the m
Red Bull desperately needed a victory to get back into the world championship chase, and Sebastian Vettel delivered it in fine style in a dry Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday. And to make things even be
A heavy shower just before qualifying set the scene for a very jumbled grid for Sunday’s Malaysian Grand Prix, eliminating both Ferraris and, effectively, both McLarens in Q1. €n the end it was Red Bu
Heavy rain at the Sepang International Circuit temporarily halted Saturday afternoon’s qualifying session for this weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix. The race stewards brought out the red flags midway th
This weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix could be the most wide open of the three races held thus far this season, following the respective performances in Melbourne.
On a fast and flowing track Ferrari
Jenson Button moved within six points of the world championship lead on Sunday with a superbly judged victory for McLaren in a dramatic Australian Grand Prix that firmly gave the lie to suggestions th
BMW Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi, Toro Rosso's Sebastien Buemi and Williams' Nico Hulkenberg on their first-lap clash; Ferrari's Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso on their late-race tyre troubles; and reig
BMW Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi, Toro Rosso's Sebastien Buemi and Williams' Nico Hulkenberg on their first-lap clash; Ferrari's Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso on their late-race tyre troubles; and reig
Mark Webber owned Albert Park on Saturday afternoon in the final practice for his home race, lapping his Red Bull in 1m 24.719s to head off the challenges of Bahrain winner Fernando Alonso (1m 24.929s
Friday afternoon’s second practice session for this weekend's Australian Grand Prix nearly only lasted half an hour, even though the clocks were running for three times that. The problem was that one
Robert Kubica got Renault's Australian Grand Prix campaign off to a fine start with the fastest time in Friday morning's opening practice session. The Pole took his R30 round in 1m 26.927s, making him
After all the anticipation of the opening round of the championship in Bahrain a fortnight ago, this weekend's second round is almost as eagerly awaited - if only to see if anyone catch match Red Bull
McLaren have been in the headlines recently thanks to their innovative diffuser design. Although a clarification of the rules by the FIA has forced the British team to make slight modifications to the
Reigning Formula One world champion Jenson Button tried out some rather different high-speed machinery on Tuesday at Melbourne's Albert Park when he traded cars with Australian V8 Supercar champion Ja
Force India's test and reserve driver Paul di Resta will make his Formula One practice debut in Australia on Friday. Di Resta will replace Adrian Sutil during the opening practice session at Melbourne
After spending two seasons in relatively uncompetitive machinery, there was a mix of relief and elation on Fernando Alonso's face following his debut win with Ferrari on Sunday, having displayed the s
Lewis Hamilton says his McLaren can match the Ferraris for pace, but admits they are the team to beat in 2010.
Let's see what happends next race!
Ferrari, McLaren, Red Bull and Mercedes GP had all looked quick during pre-season testing, but no one was quite sure how it would translate come Bahrain. On Friday, there were a few clues to the answe
Nico Rosberg put Mercedes GP at the top of the timesheets on Friday afternoon, ahead of McLaren, Red Bull and Williams.
The young German took his Silver Arrow round the Sakhir Circuit in 1m 55.409
Force India's Adrian Sutil caused something of a surprise here at Bahrain's Sakhir circuit on Friday morning, when the 2010 Formula One season finally kicked off properly with the first practice sessi
Thursday was highly significant for the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship: It was the last day on which the true form for the year remained unclear. As of Friday, and the first practice sessions
Drivers: Fernando Alonso (Ferrari), Jenson Button (McLaren), Lewis Hamilton (McLaren), Felipe Massa (Ferrari) and Michael Schumacher (Mercedes GP).
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Not many drivers have been able to defend their title. Jenson Button's bid to join that small but illustrious group starts this weekend in Bahrain. Just to add to the challenge, he will have to race a
The return of Michael Schumacher; four world champions on the grid; at least three leading teams in which team mates will be fighting head-to-head for the title honours; and the prospect of drivers ha
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton was the quickest runner as pre-season testing drew to a close at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya on Sunday. Hamilton clocked a best time of 1m 20.472s around the Spanish circ
He may not have figured at the top end of the timesheets, but Ferrari's Fernando Alonso believes the team are very much on the right path with the new F10, following last week's test at Jerez in Spain
McLaren's Jenson Button leapt to the top of the timesheets, as the latest four-day test in Jerez drew to a close on Saturday. Button lapped the Spanish circuit in 1m 18.871s to finish over two-tenths