Category: Lewis Hamilton Updates
F1′s Lewis Hamilton starting afresh after ‘battling everybody’ in 2011
• Ex-champion admits he was trying to juggle too many issues• Jenson Button has private dinner with McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton, who admits he was “battling everybody” last season, and Jenson Button have had a private dinner for only the second time since their intense rivalry at McLaren started two years ago. A relaxed-looking Hamilton [...]
New McLaren is a beauty but Hamilton and Button really need a winner | Richard Williams
McLaren have worked hard to avoid last year’s ‘abysmal start’ and it’s looking good so far – but the real test is yet to come Any chance to visit McLaren’s Technology Centre, Sir Norman Foster’s swooningly beautiful kidney-shaped low-rise building, with its mirror-like lake and elegant landscaping, offers a treat to the eyes, particularly on [...]
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton has sunnier outlook after winter in Colorado
• McLaren launch new car at Woking base• Sutil’s comments are given the brush-off McLaren launched their new Formula One car before a global audience on Wednesday. And the global audience dutifully gawped in wonder, even though the new creation, the MP4-27, motionless and driverless and tilting sharply to the right, looked as if it [...]
Lewis Hamilton looks on bright side and embraces his year of growth
• McLaren driver takes a positive line on next season• ‘I’ll look back on this season and say I needed that’ For Lewis Hamilton brave new dawns have too often turned out to be yet more dusks but there was an air of serenity about him here on Thursday as he arrived wearing a diamond-encrusted [...]
Lewis Hamilton sets pace in Brazilian Grand Prix practice
• Lewis Hamilton pips Sebastian Vettel in afternoon session• Mark Webber is fastest in earlier Brazilian GP practice Lewis Hamilton’s outstanding recent form continued here on Friday when he beat Sebastian Vettel to top place in the second practice session for Sunday’sBrazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos. He beat the German world champion’s car by 0.167sec, [...]
Bernie Ecclestone says showbiz link is a ‘disaster’ for Lewis Hamilton
• Formula One chief concerned about British driver• Says Hamilton faces ‘wrong influences’ since split from father Bernie Ecclestone has described Lewis Hamilton’s decision to put his affairs in the hands of a management company dealing primarily in showbusiness figures as “a disaster”. Speaking to the Guardian, the Formula One supremo criticised the 2008 world [...]
Lewis Hamilton defends his management team, XIX Entertainment
• Formula One driver responds to Bernie Ecclestone criticism• Hamilton angered by attack on company run by Simon Fuller Lewis Hamilton has again launched a robust defence of his management team. XIX Entertainment, run by Simon Fuller, has been heavily criticised by the Formula One rights holder, Bernie Ecclestone. Ecclestone told the Guardian that he [...]
The year the wheels and everything else came off for Lewis Hamilton
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton has endured a troubled year in F1, with car problems, girlfriend problems and track clashes Anthony Hamilton steered his son Lewis as father, manager and mentor from karting through to a Formula One debut in 2007, when he was beaten to the championship by one point, and on into the following year, [...]
McLaren are back on track after trailing behind Red Bull
Red Bull may not everything their own way next year as Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button start to challenge Sebastian Vettel’s dominance Do not say a word in Milton Keynes but suddenly Red Bull are looking a little anxiously in their rear-view mirrors. The most successful Formula One team over the past two seasons have [...]
Martin Brundle urges Lewis Hamilton to get his head right for 2012
• Race commentator calls on McLaren to be competitive• Former Benetton driver joined at Sky by other BBC staff Martin Brundle, who was confirmed on Wednesday as one of Sky Sports’ Formula One commentary team next season alongside other figures from the BBC’s coverage – David Croft and Ted Kravitz – has emphasised the need [...]
