Category: Lewis Hamilton Updates
Hamilton takes Malaysian GP pole ahead of Button
• Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button secure front row• World champion Sebastian Vettel qualified sixth Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button repeated their success in Melbourne by locking out the front row for Sunday’s Malaysian Grand Prix. Hamilton took his 21st pole of his career – one more than rival Fernando Alonso – with Button second [...]
Lewis Hamilton cautiously optimistic ahead of Malaysia Grand Prix
• Driver believes he has a chance to win F1 title• ‘We appear to be the team to beat which is a good sign’ Lewis Hamilton has sounded a note of caution despite believing himself to be firmly in the Formula One world title hunt this season. Hamilton was deflated following Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix [...]
Jenson Button’s tilt at another F1 championship excites McLaren
• Team chief says Button has ‘good chance of a proper title run’• McLaren balance of power swings against Lewis Hamilton McLaren have backed Jenson Button to repeat his world championship success of 2009 following his stunning win in the season’s opening race here on Sunday. McLaren, famously, do not have a preferred driver. They [...]
Jenson Button wins Australian Grand Prix ahead of Vettel and Hamilton
McLaren driver puts in commanding performance, overcoming safety car setback to take chequered flag Jenson Button has won his third Australian Grand Prix in four years, passing team-mate Lewis Hamilton on the first corner of the race and going on to dominate Albert Park until the flag fell in the early evening sunshine. It was [...]
Lewis Hamilton: F1′s first four races may settle my McLaren future
• 2008 world champion’s contract expires at end of year• ‘My decision will be based on more than just the car’ Lewis Hamilton believes his future at McLaren could be decided over the first four races of the Formula One season. “They will definitely play a role,” he said, as he prepared for the opening [...]
Lewis Hamilton won’t take Mark Webber’s seat, says Christian Horner
• Red Bull principal to go for rookie at end of F1 season• ‘I think it is difficult to envisage Lewis in our team’ Red Bull would rather give Mark Webber’s seat to a rookie driver than employ the former world champion Lewis Hamilton, the team principal Christian Horner has revealed. Webber will be 36 [...]
Refocused Lewis Hamilton has his sights on Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel
• McLaren driver banishes distractions for new campaign• Buy the Guardian on Monday for a 24-page F1 season guide Lewis Hamilton says he has banished the distractions that so disrupted last season’s “shocking year” and, armed with a new support staff and a fresh attitude, has redefined his focus going into the first round of [...]
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton envisages much closer F1 season in 2012
• McLaren driver feels personal boost from move to Monaco• ‘It looks like it could be different to the past couple of years’ Lewis Hamilton believes McLaren will be a frontrunner pushing for victories throughout the new Formula One campaign, rather than hanging on to Red Bull’s shirt-tails as was the case last season. “I [...]
TV review: Horizon: Solar Storms; Racing With The Hamiltons: Nic In The Driving Seat
Despite the apocalyptic warnings, it’s basically a solar storm in a teacup The electronic background music was spookily discordant as the wind blew through an empty, slightly out of focus, American suburbia. Then the voiceover cut in: “Something is stirring in our closest star. Something unsettling. A colossal eruption throwing billions of tons of plasma [...]
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton ninth in F1 testing but says car is ‘strong’
• British driver’s car runs heavier fuel load in Barcelona• Hamilton aiming at podium in F1 opener at Melbourne Lewis Hamilton brought the new McLaren home in ninth place in testing on Friday, behind such teams as Toro Rosso, Force India, Sauber and Caterham. But he then warned his more serious rivals at Red Bull [...]
