Unsurprisingly Sebastian Vettel took pole position under the night sky at the spectacular Singapore Street circuit, with Mark Webber 2nd. McLaren’s Jenson Button will start tomorrows race from 3rd. Q1 It was disappointment for Renault in Q1 as it became clear late on that one of their drivers was going out of qualifying at the [...]

Sebastian Vettel has won the 2011 Italian Grand Prix at Monza, after a sensational drive from pole position. Jenson Button finished 2nd, with Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso 3rd. It was madness on the first lap, both at the front and the back of the race. Hamilton, Alonso and pole-sitter Vettel were three abreast, with Alonso diving [...]

Sebastian Vettel took pole position ahead of tomorrow’s Italian Grand Prix, with Lewis Hamilton 2nd and Jenson Button 3rd. Read on for a session-by-session report on how things unfolded: Q1 Jaime Alguersuari was the disappointed man eliminated in Q1 along with the usual suspects. Meanwhile at the top of the timesheets it was Lewis Hamilton [...]

Sebastian Vettel scored yet another pole position at Spa-Francorchamps ahead of tomorrow’s Belgian Grand Prix, with Lewis Hamilton 2nd and Mark Webber 3rd…

Despite recent reports of ‘the wheels falling off’ at McLaren, Lewis Hamilton showed today that they are still more than capable of challenging for Grand Prix wins this year, winning the race from 2nd on the grid. Fernando Alonso took 2nd, with pole-sitter Mark Webber only managing the bottom step of the podium. It was [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

McLaren have decided not to run their blown diffuser at the British Grand Prix this weekend at Silverstone, after a tricky practice session on Friday which saw many off-track excursions and poor lap times from both Lewis Hamilton and his teammate Jenson Button. The reigning world champion Button said: “Today’s been a little bit trickier [...]

Lewis Hamilton (2nd, 8th) “It’s a fantastic feeling to be racing at home again. You feel that the most when you launch from the pitlane exit and see so many fans on the banking – and they’re all waving at you! And when you’re driving, you really can pick out all those rocket-red caps all [...]