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The Formula One world title will not be decided on points, but in fact be taken by the driver who wins the most races this season. Interestingly, were the rules in play last season, this would have meant that Lewis Hamilton would have been denied the title. The changes were decided after the FIA agreed […]
It has emerged that Jensen Button was (rightly) concerned over his future following the loss of Honda from the Formula 1 world. However, the Brawn GP team has given Button a much needed reprieve and a return to the most hotly contested motorsport in the world. Button began four days of testing at the Barcelona […]
Unveiled by world champion Lewis Hamilton and his team-mate Heikki Kovalainen, the new MP4-24 bears little resemblance to its world championship-winning predecessor due to the introduction of a raft of new rules that have reshaped Formula 1 ahead of the 2009 season. Now featuring heavily revised bodywork, re-sculpted front and rear wings, slick tyres and […]
*image courtesy of The Telegraph* At the launch of the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP4-24, Ron Dennis (McLaren Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Team Principal) announced that he would pass the role of Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Team Principal to Martin Whitmarsh (Chief Operating Officer, McLaren Group) on March 1st. Martin will therefore […]
Records were broken in the 2008 F1 season. Now, for the first time in Grand Prix history, another record is broken. Moving into 2009, all top teams will see their driver line-ups remain exactly the same as they did in 2008. Ferrari, McLaren, BMW-Sauber and Toyota have all confirmed that they will be keeping their […]
He’s actually the youngest ever world champion and more to the point, is Britain’s world champion – since Damon Hill back in 1996. In what was one of the most fraught and nervous races of the whole season, Hamilton began back in fourth – which would have been enough for him to take the title. […]
Things are more hot and sweaty in this year’s Grand Prix competition than they have been in a while – not least due to the controversy that Hamilton is causing. Let’s put it in a little perspective though, he’s the new guy on the block and suddenly very few of the other riders are getting […]
Lewis Hamilton had what looked to be the race in Japan sown up with a fantastic pole position from the qualifiers, but sadly this wasn’t to be. He finished outside the points in 12th place as he didn’t recover from a collision with Felipe Massa in the early stages of the race. Unsurprisingly for the […]
I’m sure you’ll have heard by now that Lewis Hamilton’s appeal has failed against his 25 second penalty from the Belgian Grand Prix (surprise surprise). In a not-at-all-shocking twist given that I predicted it, Hamilton has been left in third place, meaning that he’s only a single point up from Massa. This means that there’s […]
I don’t know if you saw the Belgian Grand Prix, but it was full of excitement. That’s not actually true. It was exciting in the way that F1 normally is. Which is to say, lots happens at the start, there’s a boring middle where there’s a few changeovers thanks to pitting and then there’s a […]