Brilliant Hamilton brings season alive

Brilliant Hamilton brings season alive Post categories: Formula 1 Andrew Benson | 12:12 UK time, Sunday, 17 April 2011 Lewis Hamilton was fighting back the tears as he prepared to go out on to the podium after winning the Chinese Grand Prix. It had, he said, felt like “an eternity” since his last victory, in [...]

In-form Stoner takes pole in Valencia

VALENCIA, Spain (AFP) – Australia's 2007 world champion Casey Stoner, riding a Ducati, took pole position for Sunday's Valencia Grand Prix on Saturday, the ultimate race of the 18-leg world championship series. Stoner has been in sparkling form winning three of the last four GPs including his home race a fortnight ago for Ducati whom [...]

Hamilton at last to hit front of grid

The Formula One world loves being back in north America, after the Canadian GP dropped off the calendar in 2009, but initially the return to the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on Montreal’s Ile Notre Dame was spoiled by cool temperatures and inconvenient rain which rendered the track a skating rink. After rain on Thursday, the problem [...]

Schumacher blocks out the past but Monaco traffic jams refuse to go away

The seven-time champion deliberately blocked the track by parking his Ferrari broadside across the Rascasse corner in the dying moments of qualifying in 2006, intent on frustrating title rival Fernando Alonso’s efforts to wrest pole position from him. He was demoted to the back of the grid. Schumacher, fresh from his best outing since he [...]

Webber and Hamilton keen to talk Turkey

The winner of the Spanish and Monaco grands prix carried on where he left off by taking his third consecutive pole position and making it seven out of seven for the Milton Keynes-based team. But Hamilton came here believing that McLaren have the chance to take the fight to Red Bull and after his best [...]

Red Bull’s Webber takes pole for Turkish GP

Webber set a new qualifying record with a lap of 1 minute, 26.295 seconds around the Istanbul Park Circuit to lead Hamilton by less than two-tenths of a second. Sebastian Vettel starts third after locking up his Red Bull during his final flying lap. Defending champion Jenson Button of McLaren completes the second row. Fernando [...]

Red Bulls Charge

As Mark Webber savoured his second pole position of 2010, after Red Bull Racing put on yet another stunning display of raw speed here in qualifying yesterday, he admitted that he was thinking of his two dogs. “When I left home,” he reported, “I said, ‘Cheerio boys, I hope I’ll have a good haul of [...]

LORENZO TRIUMPHS IN LE MANS

Jorge Lorenzo’s lead at the top of the MotoGP World Championship is now nine points after the Spaniard won the third round at Le Mans, his second victory of the season, triumphing in the Monster Energy Grand Prix de France ahead of Valentino Rossi and Andrea Dovizioso. Lorenzo’s success also made it three Yamaha wins [...]

SCHUMACHER PENALISED IN MONACO

Schumacher passed Alonso on his way out of Rascasse and into Anthony Noghes, but the move came under a safety car. Race stewards stated that Schumacher was in brecah of  safety rules, but Mercedes have announced that they will lodge an appeal. Mercedes have confirmed their intention to appeal and the team now have 48 [...]

RED BULL DOMINANT AGAIN

Webber made it two wins out of two on Sunday to head the title race on count-back, with Red Bull team-mate Sebastian Vettel joining him on 78 points. “We’re in a useful spot and we have a first-rate foundation,” he said. The Red Bull team have been in control this year, claiming pole position in [...]