McLaren’s Jenson Button seems to think that the Valencia street circuit holding the European Grand Prix this weekend will suit the Woking-based team’s car, due to the low downforce aspect of the circuit. The Brit said: “Even though it’s a street circuit, it’s got quite a different feel to other street tracks like Monte-Carlo or [...]

As far as Formula 1 adverts go, this is a real good’un! Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button try to build a McLaren, from scratch. Have a watch!

The Turkish Grand Prix was one of the best races I have seen in a long while, and this was partly to do with the interesting twists and turns and strategic decisions from Red Bull and McLaren during the race. In this post I will conduct an in-depth analysis of the more interesting strategies and ongoings in the race.

[picappgallerysingle id="8767607"] …Quite literally! This year, McLaren have gone a step further and have introduced their Steinmetz Diamond encrusted steering wheels, as well as the usual encrusted drivers helmets. Both McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton & Jenson Button have had their opportunity of winning the Monaco GP. In 2008, Lewis started from 3rd in the wet, [...]

During today’s Chinese Grand Prix, Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton came together in the pit lane. Hamilton got into the pit lane first, and was released at around the same time as Sebastian Vettel, with the result being the two cars going side-by-side, with Vettel pushing Hamilton towards the mechanics on the garage side of [...]

Lewis Hamilton put in an undoubtedly great drive in the Malaysian Grand Prix, working his way up from P20 to P6, but there was one incident in particular Hamilton arguably shouldn’t be so proud of, when he veered from one side of the track to another to attempt to break the slipstream of Vitaly Petrov, [...]

Lewis Hamilton has apologised for driving in an ‘over-exuberant manner’. The 25-year-old Brit was pulled over by Victorian police in Melbourne on Friday evening local time after officers witnessed him “deliberately losing traction”. His Mercedes road car has been impounded after he was seen performing “a burnout and a fishtail”. Hamilton said: “I was driving [...]

Drivers: Fernando Alonso (Ferrari), Jenson Button (McLaren), Lewis Hamilton (McLaren), Felipe Massa (Ferrari) and Michael Schumacher (Mercedes GP). Q: A question to all of you. What are you most looking forward to during this season? Who is going to start? The World Champion.

In 2009 McLaren were in a position they did not expect to be in – at the back of the grid. The MP4-24 was branded by Eddie Jordan as “possibly the worst car McLaren have ever designed.” Team principal Martin Whitmarsh admitted the team “had not done a good enough job”. However the team made [...]

There is a lot of excitement from the fans and a buzz in the paddock now that F1 testing has started, and that it feels like F1 has really kicked off for 2010. However, who will be in contention for the championship this season? It is nigh-on impossible to make a prediction. But I am [...]