Webber revels in red letter day as Hamilton is left to rue his misfortune
Unless you were one of the drivers left trailing in his wake for 66 laps, you needed all the Red Bull you could drink here yesterday to stay alert as Mark Webber went walkabout. The Australian left his rivals to find their own way home from the outback as he led from start to finish [...]
Schumacher earns Button wrath
Jenson Button was less than impressed with the forthright manner in which the German veteran overtook him going into the first corner after their pit stops. “When I rejoined the track, I didn’t know where Michael was on the outside of me,” the reigning world champion said. “Into Turn One, he turned in – and [...]
Button and Hamilton off the pace as Red Bull take over
Red Bull dominated both practice sessions at Silverstone yesterday as drivers and their team engineers figured out the best way to tackle the new challenges of the revamped circuit. Sebastian Vettel was fastest in the morning, but ended the afternoon 0.641 seconds away from team-mate Mark Webber who lapped in 1 minute 31.234sec while exhibiting [...]
Formula One Driver Lewis Hamilton
Profile: Formula 1′s first black driver Lewis Hamilton is in pole position to be Britain’s biggest sports star. Sunday March 18, Albert Park, Melbourne, and on the opening day of the 2007 Grand Prix season Lewis Hamilton is preparing for his Formula 1 debut. Remarkably for a 22-year-old, Hamilton’s black-and-silver McLaren Mercedes sits on the [...]
Webbers wisdom reaps rewards
With his first victory in Germany last season, when he beat Vettel fair and square, he demonstrated that after years of being written off by critics he had found his level. The next win, in Brazil at the end of the season, was overshadowed by the euphoria over Jenson Button’s title success, but was just [...]
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 [...]
Webber i was not responsible he stayed on the dirty side
Formula One has seen little like it since the great clash between McLaren team-mates Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost in Japan in 1989. In the intervening decades there have been several times when internal team rivalry has threatened to boil over, but until the 40th lap of yesterday’s Turkish GP in Istanbul a threat is [...]
McLaren fastest in Turkish Grand Prix practice
ritain’s Lewis Hamilton and Formula One champion Jenson Button led a McLaren one-two at the top of the timesheets in first free practice for the Turkish Grand Prix today. Hamilton, the 2008 champion, was nearly a second quicker than his compatriot with a best lap of one minute 28.653 seconds around the undulating anti-clockwise Istanbul [...]
Red Bull mishap allows Hamilton to Benefit
Lewis Hamilton grabbed his first victory of the season in stunning fashion as Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber broke the cardinal rule of Formula One. After 39 laps Webber was poised for his third consecutive triumph, spearheading another one-two with Vettel at the Turkish Grand Prix, with Hamilton and McLaren team-mate Jenson Button third and [...]
Motorcycling: Lorenzo stays patient to reel in Rossi as Yamaha keep on top
Jorge Lorenzo won the French MotoGP here yesterday to extend his world championship lead over Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi to nine points. The Spaniard finished 5.67 seconds ahead of world champion Rossi, with Italian Andrea Dovizioso grabbing third for Honda on the last lap. “Passing Valentino wasn’t easy because he was braking so deep and [...]
