Category: Lewis Hamilton Updates
Blow for Lewis Hamilton as he faces five-place grid penalty in China
• McLaren driver faces penalty for change of gearbox• Highest Hamilton can start on the grid is sixth Lewis Hamilton faces the handicap of a five-place grid penalty for this weekend’s Chinese Grand Prix due to a change of gearbox. The situation puts the McLaren driver on the back foot for a race he has [...]
All eyes on McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton as F1 circus starts in Melbourne
The Briton has the chance to bounce back and deliver for the ‘family business’, says the former F1 driver David Coulthard When darkness descended on Albert Park the expressions of elation on the faces of Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button had changed to ones of pure relief. After two years of Red Bull’s domination of [...]
Jenson Button relaxes with penguins, Lewis Hamilton with old movies
• McLaren drivers wound down differently after F1 exertions• Button wore flippers, Hamilton saw Back To The Future Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton spent their downtime rather differently after McLaren’s successful Australian Grand Prix. Button, the winner, went swimming with penguins in Melbourne while the third-placed Hamilton watched films – including, perhaps symbolically for a [...]
Lewis Hamilton’s McLaren leads practice for Malaysian Grand Prix
• Hamilton continues storming start to F1 season at Sepang• Jenson Button third behind Mercedes’ Michael Schumacher Lewis Hamilton completed a practice hat-trick as Mercedes power locked out the first four positions in Friday’s second session for the Malaysian Grand Prix. Hamilton’s time of 1min 38.021sec posted in the initial 90 -minute outing at the [...]
Lewis Hamilton pips Jenson Button in practice for Malaysian Grand Prix
• Lewis Hamilton fastest in stifling heat of Sepang• McLarens turn the heat on struggling Red Bull The Malaysian Grand Prix can be like an exceedingly noisy Turkish bath. Even if the bucketing rain does not get you – and if it does the race can be stopped, as was the case in 2009 – [...]
Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button secure McLaren one-two in qualifying for Malaysian GP
• Lewis Hamilton secures second successive pole position• Michael Schumacher takes third for Mercedes Lewis Hamilton spearheaded an all-McLaren front row on the day Michael Schumacher secured his best grid position for five and a half years. After securing pole last week in Australia, Hamilton made it two in a row for the first time [...]
F1′s Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button crank up a very British rivalry | Paul Weaver
McLaren drivers, whose duelling recalls Britain’s motorsport heydays, talk about who will be F1′s top dog in 2012 In the McLaren motor home a couple of hours after qualifying had ended, the conversation with Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button – first and second on the grid again for Sunday morning’s Malaysian Grand Prix – was [...]
Lewis Hamilton rues race flaws after McLaren’s damage limitation day
• Lewis Hamilton hopes for upgrades from McLaren• Jenson Button ‘punishes’ himself by entering triathlon The Malaysian Grand Prix may well be remembered as an aberration, a curiosity piece. Fernando Alonso is unlikely to win another race this season unless his Ferrari improves, and Sergio Pérez’s light has never shone as brightly as this. Martin [...]
Lewis Hamilton stresses McLaren positives and knuckles down for China
• Lewis Hamilton says qualifying performances show strengths• ‘The team have done a fantastic job to get us where we are’ Lewis Hamilton has said he will look at the positives rather than the negatives after finishing third in the two first Formula One races of the season but admitted: “I should have 50 points, [...]
Jenson Button sorry for ‘horrendous’ race in Malaysian Grand Prix
• Button finishes 14th after crashing into another F1 car• ‘It was a terrible day, it was my fault’ says McLaren driver Jenson Button apologised to his McLaren team for his “horrendous” performance at the Malaysian Grand Prix. A remarkable race was won by Fernando Alonso in his unfancied Ferrari, with the outsider Sergio Pérez [...]
