Archive for the ‘McLaren’ Category

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15 wins out of 16 races. 10 1 – 2 finishes. Driven by a certain Mr Senna and a Mr Prost… The McLaren MP4/4. Pretty little thing isn’t it? It didn’t just look good either, it was one of the most dominant Formula One cars ever created. Coming off the back of a poor 1987 [...]

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Red Bull continued to dominate and Daniel Ricciardo continued to impress on the second and final day of Young Driver Testing at Abu Dhabi, with the Australian setting the fastest lap of the day once more. The Red Bull protégé Ricciardo smashed the Yas Marina circuit’s previous fastest lap, setting a time nearly nearly 1.4s [...]

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Red Bull continue to dominate the world of Formula 1 as Daniel Ricciardo impressively set the fastest time of the day, a time which would have put him right up in third on last weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix grid. The Aussie impressed greatly, beating drivers with decent F1 experience, including Force India test driver [...]

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“There is not one bit of me that feels I will ever want to drive for Red Bull,” Lewis Hamilton was quoted as saying yesterday in The Mirror newspaper. “It doesn’t have the character, the history or the appeal to me that McLaren has. “My hero Ayrton drove for this team and I have always [...]

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McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton‘s slim championship hopes are still alive after escaping a penalty which could easily have been awarded following him appearing to hold up Felipe Massa in today’s qualifying session, during his out-lap in Q2 at the spectacular Yas Marina circuit. The duo came close to contact, with Hamilton appearing not to realise that Massa [...]

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Jenson Button is back in the championship challenge as he finished 2nd in the Italian Grand Prix, with his team mate Hamilton crashing out after a foolish error just four corners in. Button started from second but took the lead on the first lap where he was shunted by Alonso causing a large chunk of [...]

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McLaren lost both their perches at the top of  the constructors and drivers standings after a terrible Hungarian GP. Jenson Button did finish with 3 points after starting from 11th  but Hamilton retired with transmission failure. The Woking-based team will hope to have their car back up to speed with the Ferraris and the Red [...]

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1. Mark WEBBER (Red Bull), 1h24m38.200s 2. Lewis HAMILTON (McLaren), 1h24m39.560s 3. Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes), 1h24m59.507s TV UNILATERALS Q: Mark, you were very angry yesterday after the team switched the front wings. After the race today you said on the radio race ‘not bad for a number two driver.’ Was today all about poetic justice? [...]

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Lewis Hamilton has described his 2nd place at McLaren’s home Grand Prix today as ‘near-perfect’, and he has admitted the team didn’t expect to do so well after practice, in which they were way off the pace. The team opted to ditch their exhaust-blown diffuser after testing it on Friday, and it seems to have [...]

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Given that McLaren had high hopes for their home Grand Prix at Silverstone this weekend, you may expect Lewis Hamilton to be a tad disappointed with 4th place. However, the former world champion is delighted with his starting position on the grid. “Fourth position makes me happy like you wouldn’t believe!” Hamilton said. “And I’m [...]