Tag: Jenson
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton praise ‘fantastic’ new McLaren car
• MP4-27 will be driven by Button for the first time next Tuesday• Hamilton: ‘It’s the most refined car we’ve had for some time’ Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton have unveiled McLaren’s latest challenger which they hope will power them to Formula One success this season. After finishing second and fifth respectively in last year’s [...]
