Tag: McLaren’s
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 [...]
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button top F1 practice in Abu Dhabi
• Hamilton leads second F1 practice after Button fastest in first• Ferraris head Red Bull of world champion Sebastian Vettel They are still more used to camel racing in these parts but Lewis Hamilton provided something a little more urgent with the quickest time in the second practice session for Sunday’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix [...]
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton gets through the clouds and ponders Brazil
• Abu Dhabi win gives 2008 world champion certain serenity• I think I should be fine in Brazil, Hamilton adds It has been a turbulent season for Lewis Hamilton, on and off the track. But the McLaren driver’s first victory since July here on Sunday left him in an almost serene mood as he looked [...]
ONBOARD VIDEO McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, Q3
BAHRAIN INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT, SAKHIR GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX My Channel: adf.ly Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne: adf.ly Sepang International Circuit, Kuala Lumpur: Unavailable Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir: adf.ly Video Rating: 0 / 5 Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button give the inside track ahead of the 2011 Korean Grand Prix Exclusive pre-race interview with [...]
Lewis Hamilton claims McLaren’s first pole of season in Yeongam
Lewis Hamilton claimed pole position in Yeongam ahead of Sunday’s Korean Grand Prix. It is the British driver’s first pole since Canada in 2010 and the first time a Red Bull has not occupied the top spot all season. An all-McLaren front row was very briefly on the cards as Hamilton’s team-mate Jenson Button slotted [...]
Jenson Button predicts Formula One success for McLaren’s new car
• Button says 2011 season is the ‘most competitive ever’• Disputes claim that McLaren testing delays will be costly Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button are optimistic that their McLaren team will be even more competitive in 2011 as the 2008 and 2009 champion drivers go in search of further Formula One glory. The British pair [...]
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton has ‘worst’ weekend at Japanese grand prix
• Briton 28 points behind Mark Webber• Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel wins at Suzuka Lewis Hamilton’s hopes of winning his second Formula One world championship are almost certainly over after a weekend in Japan which he said was the worst of his career. The McLaren driver finished fifth in the Japanese grand prix today and [...]
Another failure to finish proves costly for McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton
Team principal and Mark Webber, whose Red Bull was involved in the collision, defend the former world champion’s manoeuvre The expression on Lewis Hamilton’s face suggested something darker and deeper than mere dejection. It was a look of abject despair as he faced up to the fact that his often brilliant driving this season may [...]
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton knows he cannot afford any more big mistakes
• Briton anxious to avoid repeat of Italian grand prix• The 2008 world champion stays positive Lewis Hamilton knows he cannot afford another DNF against his name if he is to be crowned Formula One world champion for a second time. The McLaren driver’s first-lap crash in the Italian grand prix at Monza on Sunday [...]
Lewis Hamilton admits McLaren’s F1 ambitions ‘hang by a thread’
• Red Bull lead the way after dominant weekend in Hungary• Break in racing has come at right time for McLaren Lewis Hamilton fears his world title dreams are “hanging by a thin thread” following a disastrous weekend for his McLaren team in Hungary. McLaren went into the race leading the constructors’ championship and with [...]
